January, 2009
Senate Picks Up House-Passed Stimulus Plan, Adds Clean Coal
Earlier 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 ...
DuPont Cuts Ribbon on Hawaii Solar Panel Project
DuPont 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 ...
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 ...
Nicholas Stern Discusses Environment And The Economy
LSE Professor Nicholas Stern discusses his thoughts on the environment and the economy.
Current Tech Could Cut Emissions 35% Below 1990 Levels
A Cool Way to Address a Data Center Energy Dilemma
According 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 ...
Trucking Industry Asks Congress For 65 MPH Speed Limit
The 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' ...
Denver Reduces Vehicle Idling by 35%
Utilities Sign On For Carbon Capture Study
Five 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 ...
HO Lighting Retrofit Will Save $18K Per Year
HO 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 ...
Organic Food Sales Slow
Recession 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 ...
UI Cuts Emissions, Saves $1M Per Year Burning Oat Hulls
Intel, Pepsi Top EPA’s 2008 Green Power List
Intel 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 ...
Wal-Mart Pushes Green Outside U.S. Borders
Wal-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 ...
MBDC Offers ‘Cradle To Cradle’ Ingredient Certification
McDonough 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 ...
Travelocity Offers Green Directory for Travelers
Vacation-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, ...
Gore to Senate: Pass Green Legislation, Now
Al 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 ...
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, ...
U.S. Faces Rising Pressure to Act on Climate Change
Todd Stern Named Chief Climate Negotiator
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
