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The four prominent corporations joined The Climate Group ranks this week to promote pragmatic climate change policy and demonstrate that companies can slash emissions but still make money.
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The utility will buy commercial wave energy from Finavera Renewables Inc. and its Humboldt County Offshore Wave Energy Power Plant.
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Energy company National Grid wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 and use renewable power for all of its internal needs by 2010, according to the company's first environmental report released Monday.
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Across industrialized nations, two-thirds of respondents in a recent survey said they would pay 20 percent more for green power; American consumers led the pack in overall willingness although a lack of options is hindering progress.
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Many people are unaware that wind power in many cases has become competitive with conventional power derived from fossil fuels. European countries such as Spain and Germany also are demonstrating how wind generation is leading to significant job growth within the clean energy sector.
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A House-approved energy bill aims to increase fuel-economy standards and the use of alternative fuels and renewable energy.
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A recent report suggests that energy efficient buildings commanded higher occupancy and rental rates while sales process were as much as 30 percent higher per square foot. To boot, operating expenses were lower.
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A Colorado-based group of climate experts unveiled a sweeping plan for the next president that calls for ambitious moves, such as virtually eliminating oil imports by mid-century and raising fuel economy rates to 50 miles per gallon by 2020.
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The capital investment would significantly improve emissions at the country's largest coke-making facility. New coke batteries would be built, as well as a cogeneration facility that would turn emissions into electricity.
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ARAMARK Corp. and Amerex Energy Services will join forces to help businesses and institutions manage their energy consumption and measure their environmental footprints.
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Tyson Foods is backing a biofuel project that could turn tons of chicken fat into fuel. With estimated capacity for 75 million gallons per year, operation of the plant is scheduled for 2010.
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UPS announced the addition of 42 electric cars and trucks to its alternative-fuel fleet for delivering smaller packages in congested regions.
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Legion Paper, the nation's largest supplier of fine art paper, has converted its Moab offices to rely solely on wind power through Rocky Mountain Power's Blue Sky program.
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Just as $90 barrels of oil are making alternative technologies possible and desirable, awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC acknowledges the need for shared recognition of the implications of climate change. What we do with that evolving collective wisdom remains to be seen.
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The Dept. of Energy is spending millions helping start-ups like Solexant of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Mayaterials of Ann Arbor, Mich., develop the next generation of solar technologies.
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Toyota's eight European manufacturing facilities have achieved zero-waste to landfill status, and the division has managed to reduce the amount of energy it uses to produce each car, according to its 2007 Sustainability Report.
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The renewable energy and energy efficiency industries stand to add millions of jobs and generate trillions of dollars in revenues during the next twenty years, according to a new research report.
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Newly opened Huckabay Ridge generates renewable energy each day from 200 tons of manure it takes off the hands of local dairy farmers that have in recent years been accused of manure runoff.
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The Climate Trust, California Climate Action Registry, Environmental Resources Trust, Greenhouse Gas Experts Network, Pew Center on Global Climate Change and The Climate Group have created the Offset Quality Initiative.
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BP is tapping yet another university to help it on its quest of developing cost-effective ways of transforming low-carbon feedstocks into biofuel.
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GE Power Generation will spend $39 million and hire 500 workers as it expands its renewable energy divisions, Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced this week. Separately, another GE division unveiled a new investment in Texas wind generation.
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World-class speakers, a multitude of panels on every topic imaginable, awards ceremonies and product announcements: here's what to expect at next week's Greenbuild 2007, the country's biggest gathering of green buildings professionals in a city that's striving to be the greenest of them all.
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Public policy, innovative companies, breakthroughs in sustainable design and consumer demand are all converging to reimagine and reshape human habitat, starting in an unlikely place: Chinese gated communities.
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France's president called for a green revolution this week with tax measures and investment goals that will make the nation a staunch supporter of climate change policies.
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Digital software manufacturer Autodesk will sponsor a documentary series that showcases ways in which to make design and everyday life more sustainable.