Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
March 2010
- Report: Here come the two-wheel electric vehicles
- Smith Electric Vehicles gets $22M more from DOE (Kansas City)
- T. Boone Pickens backs Obama's offshore drilling plans (Dallas)
- Seattle City Light company towns to get energy upgrades
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab gets $18M from DOE for biofuels research center
- Oregon's energy future is green
- Demand is up for eco-friendly campuses (Boston)
- Washington state energy projects get $16.5M in stimulus funds
- Glacier Bay raises $15M to address truck idling (San Francisco)
- Nissan prices the Leaf: $32,780
- Platinum Solutions gets $48M DOE contract
- Enphase Energy raises $40M (San Francisco)
- Kaiser Permanente goes solar in California
- Scientific Conservation raises $5M (San Francisco)
- Pearl Jam donating $210K to plant trees (Seattle)
- First Wind advances IPO plans (Boston)
- Baltimore County launches clean energy incubator
- PDC launches green jobs program
- Solar Power plans new plant in Sacramento
- FedEx to try out electric trucks in Los Angeles
- Author talks up transparency for sustainable businesses
- Spending on efficiency rises in Texas
- Comverge makes efficiency easy for consumers (Atlanta)
- Transamerica Pyramid earns LEED gold (San Francisco)
- Bridgelux CEO shines (San Francisco)
- Solyndra signs huge industrial lease (San Francisco)
- How to bring biofuels to market? (San Francisco)
- Convergys partners with utilities for smarter grid (Cincinnati)
- A new commons sprouts for green innovation
- Duke Energy signs third deal in China (Charlotte)
- Unexpected products emerge in the hunt for biofuels (San Francisco)
- Experts: Efficiency key to meeting Oregon energy goals
- Green Building Opportunity Index takes holistic approach
- PSU, PGE team up for joint energy research
- The time is ripe for green leases
- Vestas lands 145 MW wind turbine order
- Wind-turbine parts maker Aluwind to open Colorado plant
- SolarWorld revenue up, earnings down
- Report: Oregon has potential for wave energy
- California green tax credit signed (Silicon Valley)
- 3M, NREL to collaborate on energy research (Minneapolis)
- SolarWorld gets high marks from toxics coalition
- EnerNOC acquires Colorado firm SmallFoot (Boston)
- PV Powered to be acquired for $90M
- Better Living Show adds business focus
- CenterPoint Energy lands $200M stimulus grant (Houston)
- Local sourcing is a local challenge
- Virent, Shell begin producing 'biogasoline' (Milwaukee)
- Portland 12th in commercial building efficiency
- Former Sprint chief starts cell phone recycling firm (Kansas City)
- Qteros, university patent biofuel production method (Boston)
- Wind association nurtures supply chain
- Colorado to raise renewable energy standard
- The power of groups: Leveraging a collective approach to clean energy projects
- Coke and USAID to spend $13M on water (Atlanta)
- Chevron tests 7 solar technologies (San Francisco)
- Auto plant workers require retraining for solar (San Jose)
- ‘Buy American’ solar rules threaten tit-for-tat (San Francisco)
- IRS ruling: no taxes on smart grid grants
- Eco-friendly baby gear business booms (Denver)
- Fleets lead the way toward alternative fuels (Dallas)
- Wind energy may contribute to Colorado pollution
- Trina Solar sets up U.S. headquarters in San Jose
- Peabody to buy $15M stake in Calera (St. Louis)
- N.C. commission urges joint nuclear action from Duke, Progress (Charlotte)
- Mage Solar looks south for U.S. headquarters (Atlanta)
- Training the next-generation nuclear work force in New Mexico
- Carbon transaction signals new revenue source for forest landowners
- Diamond Foods cleared to buy Kettle Foods
- First Wind eyes IPO (Boston)
- BioEnergy brings in $6.4M debt round (Boston)
- Whole Foods' Walter Robb talks up conscious capitalism
- Sustainability fits with a stewardship culture
- Ichor looks to solar industry for growth
- Report: British Columbia's 'green' business could hit $27B by 2020
- California offers $30M clean-tech loan program (San Francisco)
- ‘Green’ jobs in Washington up by a third (Seattle)
- Army Corps awards $1.26M for solar installations (Sacramento)
- Governor signs BETC reform bill
- Troutman Sanders opens Portland office
- Council passes $20M bike plan ‘jumpstart’ funding
- Maine tidal power company pulls in $4M
- Green focus transforms the business of architecture
- Governors Wind Energy Coalition calls for renewable electricity standard
- 'Shop local' sentiment spurs Portland startup
- Global solar installations set record (Sacramento)
- Smart grid project spawns energy-storage startup
- Portland architects chase Living Building designation
- A reformed energy tax credit, a stagnant investment environment?
- Aurora Biofuels raises $15M in venture round (Silicon Valley)
- New York companies get $100M for energy efficiency (Albany)
- Clean-energy business grows 11 percent in 2009
- Oregon BEST hires green building expert
- PSU lab builds a green reputation
- Mark Trexler helps companies navigate climate change
- Geothermal developer Vulcan Power names board of directors
- Green building in the works for OSU campus
- First Solar sells 30-megawatt plant in New Mexico
- RF Micro announces solar cell milestone (Greensboro)
- Redwood Systems networks LEDs for a brighter future (Silicon Valley)
- Anheuser-Busch InBev to cut water usage (St. Louis)
- Cincinnati, Pittsburgh pursue greener future
- Phoenix solar firm grows with acquisitions
- Port embraces solar power (Sacramento)
- Safeway joins group to push green supply chains (San Francisco)
- Shareholders fighting for environmental disclosures (Pittsburgh)
- Flexible work time helps sustainability (Honolulu)
- Recycling makes a comeback as commodity prices recover (Denver)
- Southern’s Ratcliffe signs solar deal with Ted Turner (Atlanta)
- Brammo finds partner in Jackie Chan company
- T. Boone Pickens: U.S. paid $50B for foreign oil in first two months of 2010 (Dallas)
- New OSU solar research center set to open in May
- Time for states to take the climate change wheel
- Future of the smart grid tested by NW project
- Efficiency products mostly made in the USA
- Nicky USA bolstered by foodies
- Sustainability experts embrace 'new urbanism'
- Plug Power lands two deals (Albany)
- SunEdison to build Italian solar plant (St. Louis)
- Portland ranked greenest U.S. city
- Portland Farmers Market expands
- Revisiting Oregon's first green buildings
- Why the Sustainability Center is not sustainable business
- SunPower gets $1.5M in research grants (San Jose)
- Ecoroof industry ready to sprout
- Kane honored by Fast Company as a sustainable food leader
- Survey: Power companies still unsure of smart grids
- Ceres releases road map for sustainable businesses
- NEEA receives EPA sustained exellence award
- A123 Systems to make batteries for Navistar (Boston)
- Icebreaker rolls out plastic-free packaging
- Google adds bike directions (San Francisco)
- Siemens Energy to expand (Charlotte)
- Chinese silicon manufacturer coming to San Francisco
- Portland adopts new ‘green’ regulations
- Kulongoski signs new laws
- GT Solar prices $121M secondary stock offering (Boston)
- Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. offers to buy British counterpart (Kansas City)
- Solazyme and Unilever collaborate on algae-based products (Silicon Valley)
- Efficiency is your best energy investment
- Pinball Publishing bucks an industry in decline
- Stanford, IBM getting closer to 'green' plastic (Silicon Valley)
- MAX ridership up overall in February
- McDermott, Fluor in carbon capture venture (Houston)
- SAIC gets $21M biomass contract (Washington, D.C.)
- KB Home offers pre-wired homes for EV owners (Silicon Valley)
- EPA ‘lost the messaging war’ (Portfolio.com)
- Pacific Ethanol enters new debt agreement
- Oregon has just one on top 50 green startup list
- City of Houston expands RecycleBank program
- First net-zero school coming to Kentucky
- AMSC wind components get $10M Chinese order (Boston)
- Sustainable design's future is the Pacific Northwest's present
- Commercial solar: ROI better, financing still tough (Phoenix)
- Wells Fargo clean-tech group lends $350M (Silicon Valley)
- Clean tech forms new relationships with China (San Francisco)
- Akeena goes national with retail-ready solar panels (Silicon Valley)
- Politics, cost holding back green progress (Jacksonville)
- Georgia Tech building $23M energy lab (Atlanta)
- Solaria goes round two with new technology, CEO (Silicon Valley)
- Researchers study weather’s effect on solar panels (Phoenix)
- Silicon Valley cities fear PG&E power play
- West Ohau project pushes net-zero energy envelope (Honolulu)
- Tax fix sought for energy programs in Ohio
- Duke invests in energy storage company (Charlotte)
- Solar companies seek help from Md. law (Baltimore)
- Demand grows for battery and fuel-cell tech (Albany)
- Chinese solar companies see bright future in U.S. (San Francisco)
- EPA honors Food Lion chain (Charlotte)
- Colorado Senate advances higher renewable-energy standard (Denver)
- Tom Harmon Logging files for Chapter 11
- U.S. Chamber executive discusses energy issues (Phoenix)
- Japan signs smart-grid accords with New Mexico
- Alternative fuel evangelism (Portfolio.com)
- Merkley, Pryor propose efficiency renovation program
- International Paper launches environmental site (Memphis)
- Doing something about the weather
- Biofuels companies ask Congress for tax credit
- New law targets older biomass plants
- Low snow pack hurts Seattle City Light
- Google opens energy management API (San Francisco)
- Home Depot getting greener (Atlanta)
- NCAA basketball goes green (Phoenix)
- Kyocera Solar picks San Diego for first U.S. plant
- Investors bullish on clean tech (Boston)
- Hybrid Ferrari debuts
- Sungevity introduces solar lease program (San Francisco)
- S4 Energy Solutions plans Columbia Gorge project
- SRI wins $4.5M carbon capture study contract (San Francisco)
- Breeding a new kind of restaurant
- $20M LED manfacturing plant planned in Texas (Austin)
- Employee engagement matters more than ever
- Tokyo solar company plans Oregon manufacturing plant
- Pacific Power seeks 20.1% rate hike
- Renewable-energy mandate could create 23,000 jobs in Colorado
- Metro, counties finalize urban-rural planning agreements
- DOE announces $100M in funding for energy projects
- Yingli lands 10 MW supply contract (San Francisco)
- New $90M fund will extend SolarCity programs (Silicon Valley)
- PGE plans 'Northwest's largest' rooftop solar project
- Nuclear plant design sparks buzz (Seattle)
- Kauffman Foundation clean-tech network seeks fast path to market
- PG&E will miss renewable power mandate (San Francisco)
- Stimulus regs slow flow of cash for Maryland
- Study: Biofuels could boost farm income by $13B (Research Triangle Park)
- PDC earmarks startup funds
- North Pacific seeks approval to sell more assets
- New improved Greenprint lands city contract
- SolarWorld acquires stake in Qatar solar producer
- Texas researchers develop cheap, synthetic fuel (Dallas)
- Tesla, TAG Heuer in limited edition car partnership (San Jose)
- Ritz-Carlton goes green (Charlotte)
- Ecotality gets $300 million credit line (Phoenix)
- Solutia to buy Etimex Solar for $325M (St. Louis)
- Bloom Energy fuel cells could power jobs (San Jose)
- Irrigation controls address the water problem (San Francisco)
- Too much clean energy overpowers Hawaiian grid (Honolulu)
- Orlando firms to vie for $10M in solar work
- Green building grows despite economic climate (Charlotte)
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