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With climate scientists warning that greenhouse gas emissions must decline upwards of 80 percent by 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate change, some like Salvatore Gabola are calling for businesses to move past normalized reduction targets to lower their total carbon footprints.
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Oct. 1 marks the official start of the first phase of Walmart's Sustainability Index, which offers both a huge business opportunity for suppliers and a potentially huge environmental business for the bumper crop of consulting and accounting firms springing up to help them navigate the journey.
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The Northern California utility said today it is leaving the Chamber over what it calls an extreme position on climate change. Just weeks before, Duke Energy and Alstom Power left another trade group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy (ACCCE), over its efforts to defeat the climate bill working its way through Congress.
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Unwanted, thrown away food in the San Francisco Bay Area soon find new life as electricity. The East Bay Municipal District plans to dramatically boost the amount of food scraps it converts to energy via anaerobic digestion from 90 tons per week to 1,000 tons, or 200 tons per weekday.
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Ford Motor Co. and researchers at the University of Liverpool are developing a car ignition system that swaps spark plugs for a laser beam to start vehicles while generating fewer greenhouse gas emissions. The technology may also overcome the cold-start issue for vehicles running on biofuels.
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The Sierra Club enjoyed a victory last week when a Utah-based utility announced it would walk away from plans to build a coal-fired generating unit in the state. According to the environmental group’s tally, 100 coal plants have been foiled or abandoned since 2001, the beginning of an era it dubbed the “Coal Rush.”
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The Energy and Treasury departments released eagerly awaited guidance Thursday to help renewable energy project developers apply for roughly $3 billion in stimulus funds, which experts say will open the market to many technologies that weren't economically feasible before.
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Tesla’s plans to build a $57,400 all-electric sedan will move forward now that the company has secured $465 million in federal loans. Tesla, along with Ford Motor Co. and Nissan North America, became the first recipients of a $25 billion federal loan program aimed at helping automakers develop and produce more fuel-efficient vehicles. The three will receive a combined $8 billion in loans.
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Professionals in climate change-related fields are more likely to be male, highly educated, well-paid and not worried about losing their jobs, according to a new survey.
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The Obama Administration gave geothermal energy generation in the U.S. a huge shot in the arm Wednesday with the announcement of $350 million in stimulus funds to scale the barriers of tapping the Earth’s heat as a steady renewable power source.
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In a keynote speech delivered at the Women's Network for a Sustainable Future in Santa Clara, Calif., last week, California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols described how a new way of thinking -- “climate thinking” -- may alter the long-term decisions made by policymakers and companies.
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An all-star panel of female executives from the information technology, transportation, finance and nonprofit sectors gathered Thursday to discuss the sustainability opportunities offered by emerging technologies, as well as its limitations.
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A group of retired U.S. military leaders released a report today warning that maintaining the country's current energy stance poses significant risks to its national security,
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The city of Sanford, Fla., has found a new way to deal with its never-ending stream of wastewater sludge: converting it into renewable energy.
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The Chamber’s enduring resistance to climate change regulations has put it at odds with some of its members, many of which have in recent years formed coalitions and taken policy stances supporting mandatory rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Politico story.
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Hearings on the Waxman-Markey draft climate change bill opened on Capitol Hill this week, days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed that rising greenhouse gas emissions fueling climate change pose a risk to public health and well-being.
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Earth Policy Institute Lester Brown and PG&E CEO Peter Darbee argued Thursday that bold actions are required to address climate change at the level needed to preserve civilization.
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At the Ceres conference in San Francisco, Ben Packard of Starbucks explains how its stakeholders nudged the company to enter the public policy arena to lobby for strong climate change laws and offers advice for other companies considering entering the debate.
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Absorbing the increase in energy demand from PHEVs is just one of a myriad of challenges facing the electric power sector as it evolves in an increasingly carbon-constrained economy.
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Webcor Builders, one of the largest contractors in California, and Climate Earth, a greenhouse gas accounting firm, are joining forces to develop a database of the greenhouse gas emissions embedded in construction materials to help design buildings with smaller carbon footprints.
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Republic Services Inc. has converted a landfill cover into a flexible solar power generating system in what could be the first of several projects in the South Texas region.
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In this ClimateBiz.com Q&A, Miriam Horn, co-author of 'EARTH: The Sequel,' describes some of today's emerging cleantech innovators and the reasons they need a cap-and-trade to help bring their technologies to scale.
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The International Scientific Congress on Climate Change wrapped up in Copenhagen with a sobering set of messages to be published in a report in June. The latest climate change research suggests climate change impacts, such as rising sea levels, are occurring faster than previously forecast.
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Forty-one percent of Americans think the seriousness of climate change is generally overblown in the news -- a record high since Gallup began polling on the subject in 1997. In comparison, 28 percent of those surveyed say news coverage underestimates risks.
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(Episode 73): Ryan Schuchard from Business for Social Responsibility talks to GreenBiz Radio about the events businesses need to monitor over the next nine months as climate change policy develops on the national and world stages.