Archive for November, 2006
State & Local Governments Test Plug-in Cars
State and local governments are testing hybrid electric-gas vehicles that recharge from a wall socket for their car and bus fleets, CNET reports. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority recently solicited ...
SunEdison CEO: ‘Pent Up Demand’ for Solar Services
SunEdison CEO Jigar Shah said the company succeeds because it delivers a full-range of services including financing, installation, and maintenance. "I’ve never been in a space where there was such pent up demand for a service ...
Super Bowl, Olympics Offset Carbon Emissions
Large sporting events, such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, and World Cup, have been making and fulfilling promises to offset the damage to the environment caused by large crowds and facilities management. The NFL is planting 3.5 acres ...
‘Smart Cooling’ System from HP Unveiled
Hewlett-Packard has announced a new energy management system, dubbed HP Dynamic Smart Cooling, that's designed to deliver 20 to 45 percent savings in cooling energy costs. According to HP, the system uses advanced software residing in an ...
Build Green School & Save $100,000 Per Year
Greening America's Schools, a report from consulting firm Capital E, finds that building green would save an average school $100,000 each year - enough to hire two new additional full-time teachers. According to the report ...
TechVision21: Billions in Federal Alt Energy Funding
Speaking before the Electric Drive Transportation Association on Tuesday, TechVision21 CEO Kelly Carnes outlined the billions of dollars in federal alternative energy grants, loan guarantees, and other financial assistance flowing to companies, agricultural ...
Dairy has Largest Private Biodiesel Fleet in New England
Maine's Oakhurst Dairy is transitioning 130 delivery trucks, or more than 90 percent of its fleet, to biodiesel fuel. The switch, which should be finished in December, will give Oakhurst the largest private biodiesel fleet in New ...
Energy Firms Anticipate New Emissions Regulations
Top executives at many of the nation's largest energy companies have accepted the scientific consensus about climate change and see federal regulation to cut greenhouse gas emissions as inevitable, The Washington Post reports (via ...
Holiday Push Begins for Carbon Offset Companies
Green Mountain Energy, which launched a new carbon offset purchase site two weeks ago called BeGreenNow, has begun its holiday push with an email marketing campaign to people who registered on the new site. Dubbed "Gift of ...
Xerox Invents ‘Erasable Paper’
Xerox has invented a way to make "erasable paper" whose printed text or images last only a day - so that the paper can be used again and again. The experimental printing technology, a collaboration ...
Green Building’s Bottom Line Comes into Focus
A new white paper from Building Design and Construction (via Jetson Green) reviews the financial and economic dimensions of green building across 10 different building types. Here’s the white paper's 10-point action plan for ...
Ethical Companies Make More Money
An index of companies deemed ethical, including Intel, Starbucks, The Timberland Company and Whole Foods Market, has outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 370 percent over five years, according to an ethics and compliance company. The ...
New SmartWay Loan for Trucking Companies
A new loan initiative for small trucking companies will help pay for fuel-saving technologies. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is partnering with the Small Business Administration to make loans available to purchase SmartWay Upgrade ...
IRS Approves 610 CREBs Applications
Last week, the IRS announced that 610 projects have been given the authority to issue Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, New Rules Project reports. Projects for the governmental borrowers will receive allocations in 24 states ...
IBM to Launch Green Tech Business Unit
IBM will launch a new business unit in 2007 that will focus on environmental technologies, the Associated Press reports. The unit will get $10 million in seed money to try to turn technologies developed in IBM's ...
California Selects APX for WREGIS
The California Energy Commission has signed a multi-year agreement with APX Environmental Registry & Banking for its Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System project. The APX system will track and register WREGIS Certificates that will be the ...
Wal-Mart Makes ‘Climate Project’ Donation and Peddles Gore’s Book
Wal-Mart has made a $75,000 donation to The Climate Project, founded by Al Gore, to support of its mission to educate the world on global warming. The funds donated by Wal-Mart will be used to train ...
Sun’s Douglas Discusses BlackBox
David Douglas, vice president for eco-responsibility at Sun Microsystems Inc., spoke with The Boston Globe recently about energy efficiency and Sun's Project BlackBox - a data center with eight racks in a shipping container. According ...
Saks Saves with Green Christmas Windows
Saks Fifth Avenue's famous Christmas windows have received a green upgrade. The department store's "snowflake spectacle" light show has 40,400 newly upgraded LEDs from Philips that use only 2600W of energy - the equivalent ...
Williams-Sonoma Catalogs to Receive FSC Certification
Williams-Sonoma has begun sourcing more than 90% of the paper used in the company’s seven catalogs (Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Bed and Bath, Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, west elm and Williams-Sonoma Home) from sources certified ...
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Jetset1 on Energy-Savings Claims Don’t Add Up for Microsoft’s Windows 7
"This article is wrong. If your PC is less than a few years old,..."
Iain on McD’s in Germany Trades Red for Green In Logo
"Now if only their food was healthy and nutritious."
Phil on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
"After reading all the comments it seems obvious, to me, that the individuals populating..."
Marc Hudson on McD’s in Germany Trades Red for Green In Logo
"where will the stone be mined from- under what labor rights conditions? Will the..."
Clyde on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
"This just shows all the Global Warming freaks out there are a bunch of criminals cut from..."
Car Rental Singapore on News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management
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Meme Mine on WWF, WRI Make Last-Minute Pitches on Climate Change
"To the voting public, what the scientists say is irrelevant anymore for if you read..."