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Verizon Call-Switching Center Powered By Fuel Cells
Verizon's call-switching center and office building in Garden City, N.Y., uses seven fuel cells, each of which is able to generate 200 kwh of electricity. The company has earned the EPA's Energy ...
Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Goes Twice The Distance
Toyota has developed a new fuel cell (zero pollution) hybrid powered by hydrogen and electricity that can travel more than twice the distance of its predecessor model without filling up, The AP ...
California Cuts Quotas For Zero-Emission Vehicles
The California Air Resources Board has voted to lower the number of battery-powered and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that must be sold in the state by automakers 70 percent, AP ...
Oscars Green Choices Reach Red Carpet
Driving a Prius hybrid has become the standard way for Hollywood stars to flaunt their environmental credentials, but General Motors says more than 75 will get to the red carpet at tonight's Academy Awards in ...
Does GM Live Up To The Green Claims Of Its Super Bowl Ads?
Has GM really become the green car company its Super Bowl ads claimed? That's the question Rick Newman posed in this U.S. News & World Report article, and the answer, ...
Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow
The vast majority of in-market new-vehicle shoppers do not see diesel as a likely mainstream fuel source in the future, according to the latest Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research study.The January 2008 results reveal that ...
Closeup On Honda Clarity
Xynergy Opening Hydrogen-Powered Restaurant in Boulder
Xynergy has announced that it plans to open its flagship hydrogen-powered restaurant this summer in Boulder, CO. The company said that it will announce the name of the restaurant in the coming weeks but ...
‘Beyond Petroleum’ Pays Off For BP
For seven years, British Petroleum has invested heavily in its "Beyond Petroleum" campaign which has been praised by business press and awards shows but criticized by skeptics as greenwashing. The success of the ongoing ...
Toyota Faces Hybrid Challengers
Honda chief Takeo Fukui says the company will battle Toyota for eco-supremacy in the years ahead, Business Week reports. That's not an easy task, the Prius alone accounted for 50 percent of all hybrid ...
NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has released a short-term action plan (PDF) to begin reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the City's municipal buildings and operations by 30 percent by 2017 ...
U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’
The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and without requiring big changes ...
Morgan Stanley: Clean Energy Sales Could Hit $1 Trillion By 2030
Morgan Stanley estimates that global sales from clean energy sources like like wind, solar and geothermal could reach $1 trillion a year by 2030, Reuters reports.
Population growth and soaring prices for fossil fuels are ...
GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies
AlwaysOn has released a list of private greentech companies that it feels are transforming the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, and resource recovery establishments.
Hundreds of private companies were nominated for the GoingGreen ...
Fujitsu Powers Sunnyvale Campus With Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Fujitsu America has announced that it is using a hydrogen fuel cell on its Sunnyvale campus. It will provide 50 percent of the power needed to cool the data center and labs, significantly ...
Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies
With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate Response, a newly announced conference, is pulling together corporate sustainability leaders to talk about ...
CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit
A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva.
Top executives of corporations such as Coca-Cola, Petrobras, Fuji Xerox, China Ocean Shipping Group, Tata Steel, L M ...
Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World
The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in the world.
1. Vestas Wind Systems has more than 30,000 wind turbines generating electricity globally ...
GM Sees Volt As iPod-Like Product To Take Down Prius
By 2005, GM's top executives were convinced it could get sales moving again by turning around its reputation on fuel economy and the environment, the Wall Street Journal reports.
To differentiate its ...
BP & Rio Tinto Partner On Hydrogen-Fuel Projects
BP and Rio Tinto formed a joint venture, Hydrogen Energy, to develop technology for producing power from coal, oil and natural gas without emitting the gases blamed for global warming, Bloomberg ...
