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The co-founder of Sungevity talks about the drive for climate legislation, the booming market for solar power systems, and whether it can bring renewables to the masses, one roof at a time.
by Marc Gunther
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In what is rapidly becoming the trend of the moment, Apple has become the latest company to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the Chamber's opposition to climate change legislation.
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"Green-Collar Jobs: Realizing the Promise," a new study from the Sightline Insitute, takes a close look at how stimulus funding and green collar jobs are already benefiting the Pacific Northwest -- and how those successes can be spread.
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Financing is the most significant hurdle to getting a green idea off the ground. Venture capitalist Bryan Korba offers an insider’s perspective on what VCs are looking for, how not to look like an amateur, and what to do with the money when you get it.
by Anna Clark
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Using personalized profiles on software developed by IBM and Consert, a smart grid pilot project allowed businesses and residences cut energy use by anywhere from 15 to 40 percent; IBM also announced a plan to make a 60,000-resident Iowa city into a 'smarter city.'
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FPL doesn’t attract much attention, but with 2008 revenues of more than $16 billion, about 39,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and more than 15,000 employees in 27 states and Canada, the company has become a leading generator of low-carbon energy.
by Marc Gunther
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A near-Herculean effort, Newsweek's new list of the greenest companies in the S&P 500 Index may be imperfect -- and are sure to be debated -- but they may also be the best effort to date to assess the mainstream corporate marketplace in the U.S.
by Joel Makower
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Does the early bird open a can of worms? Companies have good reason for holding off of emissions-reductions projects -- while other firms have equally good reasons for taking early action on climate goals.
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One of the automaker's oldest and largest plants, shuttered in 2007, will be converted to making solar panel and energy storage technologies, and could create as many as 4,000 jobs.
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With the right blend of government policies and incentives, the Chinese greentech market could reach $1 trillion -- or 15 percent of the country’s GDP in 2013, a coalition of business and policy experts said this week.
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Thin film solar-panel maker Solyndra Inc., recipient of the DOE's first loan guarantee to back innovative technology, has begun construction of a second manufacturing plant.
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The roundup of items complementing our daily coverage this week also includes SIGG’s disclosure about its bottle liners, a new solar array for New Belgium Brewing.<br />
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Johnson Controls, General Motors and A123Systems are among the recipients of a $2.4 billion investment in stimulus funds aimed at developing and mass-producing electric vehicles and batteries.
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Intel’s global investment arm has committed $10 million to five companies specializing in smart grid and energy efficiency technologies. The developments are part of an investment drive in companies with technologies that can improve the performance per watt of various Intel architecture deployments.
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Cleantech firm claims recruiting and training new green talent will underpin growth plans.
by Tom Young
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GE met its goal to reduce its greenhouse gas intensity by 30 percent last year and reduced its overall GHG emissions by 13 percent compared to 2004. The company also saw strong growth in its Ecomagination revenues and plans to increase research and development for more Ecomagination products and services.
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The world’s top two emitters of greenhouse gases will launch a research center to explore low-carbon technologies for green buildings, clean cars and carbon capture and storage.
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IBM and Cisco will join Accenture to help the City of Amsterdam in its quest to become the European Union’s first “smart city.” The pilot project will serve as a testing ground to prove that smart grid technologies can better manage energy use and transmission while also reducing electricity outages and congestion.
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Farm state politicians, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have sold biofuels to rest of us as a way to revive rural America, attack the problem of global warming and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. In response, investors and taxpayers have poured many millions of dollars into corn ethanol. But returns have been skimpy, says a new report.
by Marc Gunther
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Siemens estimates that it will receive $21 billion in new orders as a result of stimulus programs from countries around the world, and expects about 40 percent of those orders to come from wind turbines, building efficiency systems and other green technology.
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El Viento es Malo? Clean Wind Energy May Spread 'Dirty Business' in Mexico
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Engineering researchers at McMaster University in Ontario have installed flexible solar cells on a bus shelter to power the new lights in the shelter and hopefully power electronic bus schedule listings.
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The Department of Energy announced its support for the first commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration power plant, but will it live up to the much-hyped notion of 'clean coal'?
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'Green collar jobs' has been the buzz term in business and policy circles as the solution to rising unemployment and greenhouse gas emissions. Two new reports show that the U.S. and states such as California can improve economic growth by employing clean energy strategies. And one of the reports says 'business as usual' could make California's economy worse in the long run.
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Another ugly battle is raging in the ethanol wars. Sadly, while everyone is arguing over whether ethanol is bad, no one is talking about how to make it better. The worst impacts of ethanol occur far from Iowa or Washington in the forests that are burned down to respond to demands for cropland.
by Noam Ross