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LA to Supply Clean Energy to 70,000 Homes

The LA City Council has approved two agreements that will provide enough renewable energy to power 70,000 homes. These agreements, each of which provide 25 megawatts of renewable power for a total of 50 megawatts, enable LADWP to meet an additional two percent of the goal to increase the City’s renewable power supply to 20 percent by 2010. The green

Benjamin Moore’s Marketing Skips Eco-Friendly Aspects of New Paint

Benjamin Moore spent $150 million developing a new line of paint, Aura, which is less harmful to the environment because it releases only one-third as much in volatile organic compounds as regular paint does, Forbes reports (via Green Options and Reveries). But the company isn't marketing the eco-friendly aspects because...

Adidas Struggles to Generate Reliable CSR Data Following Reebok Acquisition

The adidas Group has issued its latest publication (PDF) on corporate responsibility for 2006. But the publication is not a social and environmental report. It doesn't track progress or include consolidated data. Instead it is in a Q&A form and looks at the steps the company took last year to try and create a unified approach to managing and measuring...

DOE Selects 13 Solar Projects for up to $168 Million in Funding

The U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of 13 solar technology development projects for negotiation for up to $168 million (FY’07-’09) in funding, subject to appropriation from Congress, under the Solar America Initiative. The industry-led teams will contribute more than 50 percent of the funding for these projects for a total value of up to $357 million over three

Vail Plans $1 Billion LEED Resort Village

Vail Resorts is planning a $1 billion project to transform a 9.5-acre site, currently known as West LionsHead, into what Vail is calling a green multi-use resort village consisting of residences, a hotel, offices, retail shops and restaurants, mountain operations facilities, a public parking garage, a new gondola and related skier portal and a public park. It's been dubbed Ever

GAO: Missed Deadlines for Efficiency Standards Will Cost $28 Billion

The Department of Energy has missed all 34 congressional deadlines for setting energy efficiency standards for the 20 product categories with statutory deadlines that have passed, the U.S. Governemnt Accountability Office reports. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimates that delays in setting standards...

HP, IBM, Microsoft, Others Launch Hi-Tech Energy Efficiency Initiative

Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, AMC, SprayCool, Rackable Systems, VMware, and Sun Microsystems have launched an initiative called The Green Grid that aims to develop standards, measurement methods, processes and technologies to improve the energy efficiency of high technology products...

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