January, 2009

Senate Picks Up House-Passed Stimulus Plan, Adds Clean Coal

Senate Picks Up House-Passed Stimulus Plan, Adds Clean CoalEarlier this week the House passed a version of President Obama’s $825 bn stimulus plan, which would devote over $68 billion to green technology development. The plan passed ...

January 30, 2009

DuPont Cuts Ribbon on Hawaii Solar Panel Project

DuPont Cuts Ribbon on Hawaii Solar Panel ProjectDuPont has completed its largest solar panel array at a research center in Kauai, Hawaii. The solar array is expected to generate more than 700,000 kilowatt hours annually, or about 85 ...

January 30, 2009

NY Gov’t Agency Responds to Claim that RGGI Is ‘Not Legit’

NY Gov’t Agency Responds to Claim that RGGI Is ‘Not Legit’One of the defendants in a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has said the charges are not valid, reports The New York Times. The suit was ...

January 30, 2009

Nicholas Stern Discusses Environment And The Economy

Nicholas Stern Discusses Environment And The EconomyLSE Professor Nicholas Stern discusses his thoughts on the environment and the economy.

January 30, 2009

Current Tech Could Cut Emissions 35% Below 1990 Levels

Current Tech Could Cut Emissions 35% Below 1990 LevelsCurrently available technologies could reduce global GHG emissions 35 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, according to a report released by McKinsey and Company. The total cost of implementing all of the measures contained ...

January 30, 2009

A Cool Way to Address a Data Center Energy Dilemma

A Cool Way to Address a Data Center Energy DilemmaAccording to a report by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and the Uptime Institute, the average data center consumes the same amount of energy as 25,000 households. Data centers in general may surpass the ...

January 30, 2009

Trucking Industry Asks Congress For 65 MPH Speed Limit

Trucking Industry Asks Congress For 65 MPH Speed LimitThe American Trucking Associations (ATA) is seeking support for the industry's environmental initiatives from Congress. The initiatives are expected to cut fuel consumption by 86 billion gallons and reduce all vehicles' ...

January 30, 2009

Denver Reduces Vehicle Idling by 35%

Denver Reduces Vehicle Idling by 35%In March 2008, Denver launched a pilot test of Driving Change, an Internet-based vehicular greenhouse gas tracking system. The program found that from May through November 2008, the city and county of ...

January 30, 2009

Utilities Sign On For Carbon Capture Study

Utilities Sign On For Carbon Capture StudyFive electric utilities in the U.S. and Canada have joined the Electric Power Research Institute to host studies of the impacts of retrofitting carbon capture technology to existing coal-fired power plants. The ...

January 30, 2009

HO Lighting Retrofit Will Save $18K Per Year

HO Lighting Retrofit Will Save $18K Per YearHO Manufacturing has completed redesigning and upgrading its lighting systems. The retrofit project is expected to save the company nearly 201,000 kilowatt-hours per year and eliminate about 362,000 pounds of CO2 ...

January 30, 2009

Organic Food Sales Slow

Organic Food Sales SlowRecession has driven consumers to cut costs, slowing sales of organic food in the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany, Reuters reports. In the U.S., typical growth rates of 20 percent to 30 percent for organic ...

January 30, 2009

UI Cuts Emissions, Saves $1M Per Year Burning Oat Hulls

UI Cuts Emissions, Saves $1M Per Year Burning Oat HullsIn 2008, University of Iowa avoided emitting 69, 000 metric tons of CO2 by using one system to generate both heat and energy for the campus. A member of the EPA's Combined ...

January 30, 2009

Intel, Pepsi Top EPA’s 2008 Green Power List

Intel, Pepsi Top EPA’s 2008 Green Power ListIntel and PepsiCo topped the EPA's annual list of Green Power purchasers for the second year in a row, with Intel buying 1.3 million megawatt-hours - the largest renewable energy purchase in history. While ...

January 29, 2009

Wal-Mart Pushes Green Outside U.S. Borders

Wal-Mart Pushes Green Outside U.S. BordersWal-Mart announced this week goals to reduce phosphates in products in the Americas region by 70 percent by 2011. The move is part of a larger environmental plan for the ...

January 29, 2009

MBDC Offers ‘Cradle To Cradle’ Ingredient Certification

MBDC Offers ‘Cradle To Cradle’ Ingredient CertificationMcDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) has launched Cradle to Cradle Approved Ingredient certification, which assesses the sustainability of product ingredients for human and environmental health, as well as their capacity for being recycled or ...

January 29, 2009

Travelocity Offers Green Directory for Travelers

Travelocity Offers Green Directory for TravelersVacation-planning company Travelocity announced this week the launch of their new green directory to help consumers plan responsible travel. The Green Directory is a destination guide for people interested in ecotourism, ...

January 29, 2009

Gore to Senate: Pass Green Legislation, Now

Gore to Senate: Pass Green Legislation, NowAl Gore spoke to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this past Wednesday about key legislation that needs to be passed to control climate problems. The Inconvenient Truth author gave ...

January 29, 2009

Kellogg’s New Cereal Box Cuts Packaging 8%

Kellogg’s New Cereal Box Cuts Packaging 8%Kellogg is testing a shorter, deeper cereal box size and shape - made with 8% less packaging material - that it believes will save space in cupboards and revolutionize the cereal aisle, ...

January 29, 2009

U.S. Faces Rising Pressure to Act on Climate Change

U.S. Faces Rising Pressure to Act on Climate ChangeNot long after President Barack Obama pledged to tackle climate change, the pressure has risen for him to take meaningful action ahead of the climate-change talks scheduled for December in Copenhagen. Stavros Dimas, the ...

January 29, 2009

Todd Stern Named Chief Climate Negotiator

Todd Stern Named Chief Climate NegotiatorSecretary of State Hillary Clinton named Todd Stern, a former senior White House official, as the new administration's principal adviser on international climate policy and strategy - as well as its chief climate negotiator, Reuters ...

January 29, 2009