Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
January 2010
- Oregon gets federal money for efficiency
- Renewable energy grant program opens
- Efficiency program launches for small commercial construction
- Tesla plans IPO to raise up to $100M (San Francisco)
- Geothermal site withdrawn from BLM auction (Denver)
- Georgia Power bets on nuclear and natural gas (Atlanta)
- Making gasoline from the sun (Denver)
- Backdoor energy regulation (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington state gets $590M for Portland-Seattle rail
- Routeware brings efficiency to waste management fleets
- Lovejoy earns LEED gold
- Securing a clean energy future
- Think names Portland among its EV-ready cities
- Obama: High-speed rail ‘best investment’ (Tampa Bay)
- Longview Fibre plans Northwest's largest biomass plant
- Oregon ocean education program receives $14M
- Nissan lands big DOE loan for LEAF
- Ambient books $10M smart-grid contract (Boston)
- Obama urges action on energy bill
- Geothermal energy rising in Oregon
- Spanish firm to build huge solar plant in NM (Albuquerque)
- NY seeks bids for massive solar project (Albany)
- Honda eyes home fuel cell fill-up with test (Columbus)
- United Fund Advisors and U.S. Bancorp finance wind project in Washington
- Why Portland is as important—or possibly more so—than Copenhagen
- Target stops selling farmed salmon (Twin Cities)
- POET gets $5.25 million for Iowa ethanol plant (Wichita)
- Ecotality develops EV recharging software (Phoenix)
- Wind power industry breaks records in '09
- Carbon capture company raises $10M (St. Louis)
- Intel gets EPA nod for green power
- Trail Blazers earn LEED gold for Rose Garden
- 2-megawatt solar project planned for NM (Albuquerque)
- Beaverton semiconductor fab takes energy efficiency leap
- Forecast is cloudy for congressional action on climate change
- Intel plans massive solar installations
- Conditions improving for ethanol producers
- Waste Management invests in organics recycling (Houston)
- Duke Energy buys Texas solar farm (Charlotte)
- EV refueler Better Place hauls in $350M (San Francisco)
- Electric vehicle proponents urge Oregon to take the lead
- $25M biomass test plant planned for Hawaii (Honolulu)
- Securing the capital for a sustainable economy
- Portland's vertical garden plan gets national attention
- Portland delgation to seek federal funds for sustainability center
- Solar highway project lands $5M (Sacramento)
- Tesla's $465M stimulus loan finalized (Silicon Valley)
- VC investing hit 12-year low in 2009 (Silicon Valley)
- Businesses urge progress on I-5 bridge
- Nike details sustainability strategy
- Legend Homes leverages sustainability as it exits bankruptcy
- Receiver appointed for $1B North Pacific Group Inc.
- Wind farm gets 2.5M in stimulus cash (Denver)
- Tortoise offers shares for smart grid (KC)
- The “nature state” approach to reliable prosperity
- Facebook's new Prineville data center touts efficiency
- Smart grid investments on the rise
- Confluence Solar to open $400 million plant in Tenn. (Nashville)
- Startups see opportunity in energy management (Boston)
- Houston law firm seeks greener energy pastures
- Solar Nation announces two Portland installations
- 80 corporate leaders call for climate action
- Colorado gets $6M for green jobs (Denver)
- Bradbury proposes Bank of Oregon
- Oregon lands money for green jobs
- $250M Biofuels plant planned (Milwaukee)
- Westar acquires wind energy site (Wichita)
- Portland's traffic is 16th worst
- Inergy offers 4.5M shares (Kansas City)
- Wind turbine company lands $34.5M (Boston)
- PG&E pumps $60M into SolarCity (San Francisco)
- Columbia River bridge proposal comes under fire
- Oregon applies for $200M education grant
- Governor takes on LNG decision
- Sustainability and taxes
- SolarWorld panels headed to Haiti
- UPS adds green trucks to fleet (Atlanta)
- Wave energy on the rise
- Nexamp lands $6.5M in venture capital (Boston)
- NW Natural Gas pays dividend
- Portland makes another greenest city list
- Water tech company HTI sends filters to Haiti
- Duke Energy survey find customers care more about cost (Cincinnati)
- Walden calls for hearing on healthy forest bill
- Ten climate trends that will shape business in 2010
- NOAA's Newport move causes concern
- Managing solar projects is Clean Power's edge (San Francisco)
- Yellow Cab spends $8M to go natural (Dallas)
- Plans for large solar farms sprouting in Massachusetts (Boston)
- Precision Castparts buys into Chinese company
- Getting water on your brain
- SFI announces new forest management standard
- Kleiner Perkins invests in Fisker (Silicon Valley)
- Oregon's SOLV names new director
- Apple getting into energy management
- PGE considers biomass if Boardman closes
- EV developer finds bank partner (Silicon Valley)
- PGE pushes forward with plan to close coal plant
- DOE to hand out grants to scientists
- Small business owners cry foul to EPA
- Emission controls subject of lawsuit (New Mexico)
- Iberdrola signs biggest wind power deal yet
- Looming BETC reform causes confusion in renewables
- Bob Moore: Sustainable growth and the good life
- Solaicx plans to triple Portland plant capacity
- Secretary Chu announces $80 million for biofuels
- Yingli: Still debating solar plant site (Austin)
- Governor: Stimulus creates or saves 8,300 jobs
- Public highways to get improvement grants
- Pay rises in 4 of 6 Oregon counties
- TriMet ridership decline continues
- PECI and BPA offer energy savings to grocers
- Obama administration eyes nuclear option
- Pacific cod set for sustainable certification
- First of six charging stations opens in Lincoln City
- Hybrids not likely to save U.S. much oil
- Vestas gets Canadian order for 18 wind turbines
- eSolar inks massive solar deal in China
- Yingli eyes Phoenix for solar plant
- CentroSolar America confirms Gresham plant
- Wisconsin gets new wind farm approval
- Green building in 2010: 10 trends to watch
- Sustainability and Taxes
- Daimler gets $40M from federal government
- The link between smart grids and solar power
- Georgia biomass plant on hold
- CES shows its greener side
- Cleantech investment down 33%
- Solar company plans Gresham plant
- $2.3B in tax credits awarded to clean tech industry
- Green innovation takes many forms
- Study projects slow road for electric vehicles
- NY commits $300M to green energy projects
- Electric cars on display in Detroit
- Bike ridership down in 2009
- VC crystal ball comes up cleantech
- Energy storage may recharge Oregon’s economy
- The rise of the new mobility
- Beyond green building: What it means to work green
- Metro buys 1,143 acres of undeveloped forest land
- Solar research center to open at OSU
- Solar farm will be Oregon’s largest
- Government sues for control of SmartForest Ventures
- ClearEdge sustains brisk growth
- Clean Edge shows where the clean jobs really are
- Portland solar company lands $2M
- $133M green overhaul will ripple through Portland
- Oregon Inc. worries about budget cuts
- After rapid growth, new Vestas leader confronts stalled market
- SolarWorld's ’09 sales beat expectations
- Oregon to get $5M green job training grant
- Hemp company Naturally Advanced makes first sale
- Electric car maker Think chooses Indiana
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