Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
February 2010
- Nike rolls out green World Cup jerseys
- The business case for the Oregon Sustainability Center
- Washington wind farm gets $28.6M in stimulus funds (Seattle)
- PG&E: Electric rates could drop 2.5% (Silicon Valley)
- Chipotle launches solar effort (Orlando)
- Beer byproducts tapped for brewery power (Boston)
- Arizona nuke bill killed (Phoenix)
- NW Natural reports record earnings in 2009
- North Pacific gets court OK to sell assets
- City Club: Put Metro in charge of transportation
- Tesla offers leasing program (Silicon Valley)
- What Oregon needs: The features of a state energy policy
- Kettle Foods to be sold for $615 million
- California governor race key to U.S. climate change policy
- Companies get $17M stimulus contract for solar (Denver)
- GT Solar lands $200M in contracts (Boston)
- CalStar raises $15 million for growth (Milwaukee)
- PGE reports 60 percent drop in Q4 earnings
- Cleantech Open to merge with Boston's ICE (San Francisco)
- Recology lands Metro solid waste contract, pledges sustainability
- World Energy enters demand response market (Boston)
- Austin Energy seeking more wind farm land
- UDRI to research and design wind towers (Dayton)
- SolarWorld puts logo on Timbers jerseys
- Myriant Technologies lands $5 million (Boston)
- Bloom Energy fuel cell debut makes a splash
- The green jobs myth
- Lighting startup Adura raises $12M (San Francisco)
- Business development funds earn Senate OK
- Chevron to build solar plant at mine site (Albuquerque)
- OSU gets NSF grant for research lab
- Portland traffic 22nd worst in U.S.
- Keyera Energy headed to Port of Vancouver
- CleanFUEL gets $13M for propane fueling stations (Austin)
- Intel's investment plans good news for clean tech
- Editor: The Green Energy Czar says energy efficiency matters
- Intel, VCs plan to invest $3.5B in U.S. companies
- EPA provides details on greenhouse gas regulation
- Energy storage company raises $17M (Boston)
- Airline recycling: United and US Airways fail
- BrightSource scores $1.4B in U.S. loan guarantees (San Francisco)
- New wind capacity study stokes optimism
- Boothster builds on eco-focus for trade shows
- Retooling cities means new markets for Oregon companies
- Biodiesel market on the rise
- General Biodiesel grows on grease (Seattle)
- Builders ready for statewide green codes (Sacramento)
- Office Depot's new stores go green (South Florida)
- China's pollution fuels stateside businesses (San Francisco)
- Compas Group signs on for sustainable shrimp (Charlotte)
- Museum plans alternative energy plant (Tampa Bay)
- Solar panels undergo extreme makover (San Francisco)
- Arizona lawmakers mull nuclear power (Phoenix)
- S.C. considers breaks for nuclear power plants (Charlotte)
- SoloPower raises $44.9M (San Jose)
- PG&E spending millions to fight public power (San Francisco)
- North Carolina utilities seek swine-waste power
- Bridgetown Natural Foods expands
- Energy Secretary in Colorado for jobs summit (Denver)
- Horizon Wind Energy signs 20-year deal (Houston)
- Businesses ignore the water issue at their peril
- After crash, private equity rebounds
- Pivotal on the hunt for clean-tech leaders
- City considers light-rail bridge options
- Food distributor goes biodiesel (San Francisco)
- Study: Tall wind turbines could make more power (Denver)
- Peabody, GreatPoint to pursue ‘green coal’ plants (St. Louis)
- Mass. clean-energy projects get $13M (Boston)
- Possible big Colorado oil find raising excitement (Denver)
- Businesses increase assault on river plan
- Finding your voice
- Avista delays some renewable projects (Puget Sound)
- GE Energy lands Iraq deal (Atlanta)
- Phase one of Hudson River dredging a success (Albany)
- Report: Tesla execs die in plane crash (San Jose)
- Portland gets $23.2 million for streetcar project
- Officials sign Klamath agreement
- Asking the hard questions
- PGE seeks 7.4 percent rate increase
- Texas appeals EPAs greenhouse gas findings (Austin)
- Virtual race for clean energy legislation starts in Beaverton
- Constellation Energy commits $90M to solar projects (Baltimore)
- Employees now own Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods
- ECOtality looking for NASDAQ listing
- Obama offers $8.3B in nuke loan guarantees
- Oregon Tilth partners with OSU to help organic farmers
- NREL gives green light to feed-in tariffs
- Cielo Wind Power moves forward with $1.5B wind farm (Austin)
- Ford launches efficiency program for dealers
- AEP on the hunt for biomass fuel (Columbus)
- Austin Water begins $31.8M stimulus-funded project
- Spain's Ingeteam to establish plant in Milwaukee
- Green technology patent push has some worried (Silicon Valley)
- River Hill Coal working on green mining (Pittsburgh)
- Rain barrel venture gains steam (Columbus)
- Arizona solar industry craves more R&D (Phoenix)
- Commission appointed for nuclear waste issue
- Duke Enegy CEO wants energy policy (Charlotte)
- Higher ed getting more energy efficient (Boston)
- GM's electric car future
- Green stimulus = Green jobs?
- Clean-energy bill gets House approval (Denver)
- UO's Jessica Green named 2010 TED Fellow
- YRC Worldwide gives customers a carbon calculator (Kansas City)
- Arizona forms state commission on climate change (Phoenix)
- Wind tunnel coming to Portland State’s campus
- Playing the forest card
- Wind company Vestas to lay off 114
- City Council OKs $613 million bike plan
- Mayfield to lead Oregon charging station effort
- Oregon architects go green in China
- Columbia River salmon plan still in question
- Calisolar raises $22.5M, buys 6N Silicon (San Jose)
- SunPower to buy SunRay for $277 million (San Francisco)
- OSU study: Many steelhead die on way to ocean
- One Block of the Grid raises $5 million (San Francisco)
- SolarWorld wins annual performance test
- North Pacific reaches deal to sell $25 million in assets
- Agri-Ethanol Products leaders sentenced (Raleigh)
- Steadfast Holdings Group inks $160M deal (Austin)
- Hewlett-Packard opens wind-cooled data center (San Francisco)
- TriMet may reduce service, raise fares
- House OKs changes to Business Energy Tax Credit
- Companies showcase incentive-enabled solar project
- Coffee Bean International adopts direct trade program
- IHS acquires Emerging Energy Research for $18M (Denver)
- Propel lands $20 million for alternative fuels (San Jose)
- "Clean coal" takes root in China
- Portland receives intelligent transportation award
- Vestas gets 99 MW wind development contract
- TriMet must cut $27M
- Gresham turns on Pacific Northwest's largest ground mount solar system
- Noribachi launches solar firm (Albuquerque)
- Don’t throw the BETC out with the bath water
- AES joint venture buys biogas firm (Washington, D.C.)
- ProjectDX acquired by Renewable Funding
- Mercury Solar Systems buys Eos Energy (Philadelphia)
- Element Power acquires 1.4GW in wind assets from EcoEnergy
- Evergreen Solar losses mount as German venture sours (Boston)
- VC investments in cleantech fell by half in 2009 (San Francisco)
- OSU gets $1 million to study hops
- Soctland to beat target of 31 percent renewables by 2011
- NOAA reorganization provides more info on global warming
- Lower water runoff hits BPA revenue
- Agricultural sales fall in 2009
- Ohio awards $12M for energy efficiency (Columbus)
- Skykonic wins $3M for carbon capture (Austin)
- Caterpillar backs FutureGen plant project (St. Louis)
- Cost concerns may hinder LEED growth (Kansas City)
- Solar districts proposed in Ohio (Columbus)
- UO's architecture department gets sustainability nod
- Icebreaker HQ gets LEED gold
- Solar startup Ausra acquired (San Jose)
- OSU's Marine Mammal Lab takes starring role
- Silicon Valley homeowners want wind turbine rules (San Jose)
- GE renewable energy HQ bests growth target (Albany)
- Charlotte, N.C. as U.S. energy capital? (Charlotte)
- Hawaii’s energy-related stimulus funds reach $134 million (Honolulu)
- Green works: a new way of thinking about social sustainability
- Marin County may defect from PG&E (San Francisco)
- Adams calls for sustainable business funding
- Nexamp lands $20M stimulus contract (Boston)
- Weyerhaeuser loses $175M in Q4
- Microsoft unveils self-powered remote prototype (Seattle)
- Evergreen Solar's German joint venture at risk (Boston)
- AmFor stakes a claim on the EV supply chain
- Waste not: The sustainable food chain
- Smith EV's sister company has hydrogen plan (Kansas City)
- PG&E converted coal plant deal approved (San Francisco)
- HUD chooses Portland for sustainability announcement
- Report: renewable standard would create jobs
- Study: Oregon needs stronger incentives for EVs
- BETC reform under way
- Powerhouse Dynamics lands $1M in VC (Boston)
- Blumenauer wants to extend renewable energy grant program
- EPA ruling boosts corn-based fuels
- Cincinnati State to offer ‘Smart Grid’ major (Cincinnati)
- EV makers take their case to Salem
- Hong Kong company buys Cascade Pulp
- California sets up statewide GHG monitoring
- LS9 buys renewable fuel factory for a song (San Francisco)
- Solar startup 1366 Technologies closes $6.2M round (Boston)
- OIT developing renewable energy internship program
- FoodHub launches, matchmaking service for food buyers and sellers
- Feds take big lease at First & Main
- Ore. environmental group releases mercury report
- Georgia wants refund from Yucca Mountain waste (Atlanta)
- Recurrent lands utility solar contract (San Francisco)
- Livermore Lab receives two awards (San Francisco)
- Bye Energy acquires Novare Biofuels (Denver)
- Smart grid could reduce emissions by 12 percent
- Nuclear’s rise good news for NuScale
- Weyerhaeuser and Mitsubishi to partner on biomass
- Home energy efficiency poised for growth (Denver)
- Obama proposes $3.8 trillion federal budget (Washington)
- PacifiCorp names new president
- Old jeans get new life as insulation (Sacramento)
- PSU launches incubator for social, environmental entrepreneurs
- American Superconductor wins $70M wind turbine deal (Boston)
- Renewable Funding take solar funding program national (San Francisco)
- Bill could kill Arizona's renewable energy standard (Phoenix)
- Grape Solar signs partnership deal with Ontility
- Icebreaker plans Woodburn store
- Keeping our eye on the climate change end game
- New study shows biomass can replace coal
- Duke Energy pushes smart grid completion (Charlotte)
- Tennessee biofuel plant turns grass into gas (Nashville)
- Energy efficient lighting business brightens (Sacramento)
- Prepare the grid for the electric car crunch (San Francisco)
- Filling the gaps in Oregon’s energy future
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