• Friday, July 30, 2010-DOE Announces 30 Million for Small Business Clean Energy Technologies
DOE announced $30 million in funding will be made available to qualified small businesses to support the commercialization of promising new clean energy technologies. [READ MORE]...
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• Friday, July 30, 2010-New Book U.S. Solar Market Trends 2009
This new book, by primary author Larry Sherwood, provides public data on U.S. solar installations by technology, state and market sector. [READ MORE]...
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• Friday, July 30, 2010-Is the U.S. Ready To Enact a FIT
With so much talk about feed-in tariffs for renewable energy lately, you'd think they were right around the corner. Not so fast, say experts. State and local efforts to create feed-in tariff (FIT) programs will not work as well as those in Europe unless regulators adopt the key principles that have made FIT programs so successful there. [READ MORE]...
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• Friday, July 30, 2010-Zephyr Solar Plane Completes Longest Unmanned Flight Ever
As expected, the Zephyr solar plane has officially broken the endurance record for an unmanned aircraft by flying for a whopping two weeks above an Arizona army range. [READ MORE]...
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• Wednesday, July 14, 2010-Solar Plane Lands After 26 Hour Flight
An experimental solar-powered plane landed in Switzerland Thursday morning and its pilot, André Borschberg, was greeted by a roar of cheering, clapping and whistles as he touched down on a runway in Payerne, Switzerland. [READ MORE]...
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• Wednesday, July 14, 2010-Department of Energy Awards 92 Million for Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced 43 cutting-edge research projects that aim to dramatically improve how the U.S. uses and produces energy. The selections focus on accelerating innovation in green technology while increasing America's competitiveness in grid scale energy storage, power electronics and building efficiency.[READ MORE]...
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• Wednesday, July 14, 2010-Keep Cool in Your Home
This energy savers blog has some ideas you can do to help lower your electricity costs until the weather cools off again. [READ MORE]...
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• Wednesday, July 14, 2010-Five Ways to Achieve Top Line Business Value Through Sustainability
A survey of CEOs from around the globe indicate that despite the economic downturn, sustainability will be critical to the future success of their companies. CEOs indicated that a tipping point could be reached that integrates sustainability with core business processes and systems, and its supply chains. [READ MORE]...
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• Tuesday, June 29, 2010-On the Verge of a Sustainability Tipping Point
93 percent of CEOs see sustainability as critical to their company’s success. It is clear that there has been a fundamental shift in mindsets 2007. Then, sustainability was starting to reshape the rules of global business. Now, it is truly a strategic priority for executives around the world. [READ MORE]...
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• Tuesday, June 29, 2010-10 Questions Every Sustainability Manager Should Be Prepared to Answer
There are some questions every sustainability manager or CSO is going to encounter along the way. What's interesting is that more and more managers are asking these questions of themselves and then are going out to find the answers.[READ MORE]...
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• Wednesday, June 09, 2010-The Right Equation for a Corporate Culture Focused on Sustainability
How can you shift a corporate culture so that it embodies environmental sustainability? Is it all about recruiting practices, incentives, or employee bonuses?
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• Wednesday, June 09, 2010-Ten Trends that Will Rock the Industry
Looking back through the past 90 years in the electrical industry reveals that this market is not so stolid and slow to change as it may seem from an outsider's point of view. New technologies, new techniques and new demands from customers will continue to shake things up.[READ MORE]...
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• Wednesday, June 09, 2010-Will the London Olympics Live Up to its Green Ambitions
Everywhere you look, London's 2012 Olympics have scrapped or hedged on some aspect of their environmental goals, casting doubt on whether there's even such a thing as Green Games.
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• Friday, May 28, 2010-EPA Helps Partners Find Commercial Energy Efficiency Savings
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with several states and utilities, is starting a new Energy Star pilot program designed to further improve commercial building energy efficiency.
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• Friday, May 28, 2010-Nearly Three Quarters of Firms Plan to Boost Their Climate Investments
Rather than waiting for regulatory conditions to solidify, leading companies are taking their cues from the market by investing in climate change initiatives, reporting on their performance and leaning on their supply chains to reduce emissions.[READ MORE]...
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• Friday, May 28, 2010-U.S. Corporate Support for Climate Laws Tops 6000 Firms
Because meaningful climate change legislation will move the U.S. economy away from its dependence on fossil fuels, extravagantly funded interest groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have devoted millions of dollars to opposing its passage. However, the business community itself has increasingly lined up to be counted as supporters of such legislation.
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• Friday, May 28, 2010-Gen Y Makes Green Demands for the Workplace
The 18- to 25-year-olds just entering, or poised to enter, the workforce aren't likely to be satisfied with shared "hotel-style" desk assignments, drab cubicles or windowless spaces that have characterized offices in the past, according to new research that could strongly influence space and energy efficiency strategies in the corporate world.
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• Monday, May 17, 2010-American Power Act Contains Little Direct Support for Renewables
On Wednesday, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) released the details of their energy and climate change legislation. The bill includes few provisions designed to directly support renewable energy. [READ MORE]...
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• Monday, May 17, 2010-EPA Hosts First Building Competition to Boost Energy Efficiency
The first National Building Competition, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is under way. Nearly 200 applications were received for the competition and the 14 finalists will be judged on their energy performance from September 2009 to August 2010. |[READ MORE]...
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• Monday, May 17, 2010-Architect Group Names the Top Ten Green Buildings for 2010
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named the year's top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design, selected by the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE). [READ MORE]...
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