Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
May 2010
- Eco-district plans gain traction in Portland
- BP oil spill cleanup costs near $1B (Houston)
- American Superconductor ups China work (Boston)
- Leaders list highlights human capital
- ReVolt ramps up Portland operations
- SunPower to start joint venture in Taiwan
- Environmentalists and entrepreneurs need each other
- Sustainable businesses must speak with a collective voice
- Sustainable Vision Award: Zero Waste Alliance
- Innovation in Sustainability Small Co.: FMYI Inc.
- Innovation in Sustainability Medium Co.: Miller Paint Co.
- Innovation in Sustainability Large Co.: Truitt Bros. Inc.
- PSU's new student center goes for LEED gold
- Roseburg green building material company plans 100 jobs
- Toyota exec: Oregon can lead mobility overhaul
- Tesla's Toyota deal informal, paying $42M for NUMMI (Silicon Valley)
- Tesla backer funds Chinese electric cars (Silicon Valley)
- Wave-powered water plant gets green light in Texas
- BPA concern poses business challenges
- Obama wants green leadership
- California offers $20M in clean-tech training grants
- A high-tech how-to for sustainability
- Iberdrola's $1.3 billion deal signals focus on renewables
- LNG protest planned at NW Natural meeting
- New BETC rules take effect this week
- Three Oregon sites chosen for sustainable landscaping pilot
- American Superconductor to develop turbines (Boston)
- MEMC unit invests in solar joint venture (St. Louis)
- Ohio’s Lake Erie wind farm breezes forward
- Sustainable leaders list released
- Navistar electric trucks launch in Portland Tuesday
- Want a stronger business climate? Think efficiency and renewables
- Restaurant grows out of educational program, farmers market following
- USPS hires GridPoint for $28.7M contract (Washington, D.C.)
- Tony Blair Associates joins Khosla Ventures (Silicon Valley)
- Toyota deal helps, but Tesla IPO questions remain
- Ohio companies work to make fuel cells affordable
- Duke Energy invests in wind power (Charlotte)
- Cheap solar on the way for Houston
- ECO2 Forests focuses on carbon, reforestation (Sacramento)
- SolarCity on acquisition and hiring spree (San Francisco)
- MEMC Electronic Materials to buy Solaicx
- Maryland home achieves net-zero goal
- The gulf syndrome: Spill is hammering business
- Fuel cell startup Trenergi finds seed funding
- UAW presses Toyota, Tesla for union workers (Silicon Valley)
- SolarWorld could double U.S. production
- Obama to visit Solyndra on green jobs tour (Silicon Valley)
- Naturally Advanced raises $1.4 million
- Use crowdsourcing for social and environmental sustainability
- Newly public wind company Xzeres raises $4M
- HP envisions data center fueled by manure
- ECOtality hits Nasdaq (Phoenix)
- Tesla, Toyota to team up on electric car (Silicon Valley)
- New Ecotrust tool provides path to carbon markets for forest owners
- Solexant plans 100-employee Oregon solar plant
- BrightSource gets $150M in new funding (Silicon Valley)
- Salt River Project signs on to geothermal plant in California
- Waste Management invests in MicroGreen (Seattle & Houston)
- Xcel to buy wind power from Colorado BP plant
- Study: Solar industry could add 14,500 jobs in Oregon
- Oregon renews Mitsubishi partnership for electric vehicles
- Recycled water put on display by PCC
- Efficiency matters — especially here
- GM to build natural gas-powered fleet vans (Dallas)
- New Mexico releases cap-and-trade draft rule
- Pythagoras unveils 'solar windows' (San Francisco)
- Hilton installs water recycling system (Houston)
- Akeena to sell solar panels under Westinghouse brand
- Puget Sound Energy orders 149 wind turbines
- Farmers market in Albuquerque goes solar
- State wants more options for PGE's Boardman plant
- Tesla hires a Northwest regional manager from Portland
- Vestas receives 49 MW order from Canada
- Cape Wind president defends pricing (Boston)
- First Wind to sell power in Hawaii
- Wind developer Pattern Energy raises $400M (San Francisco)
- Pickens: U.S. spent $31B on foreign oil in April (Dallas)
- Stakes high for climate/energy bill (Boston)
- Solar firms scramble before European subsidies expire
- Startup mines for electric car batteries (San Francisco)
- ECOtality widens loss as revenue climbs (Phoenix)
- Experts: green building has money-saving limits (Jacksonville)
- New green energy goals set for Colorado Legislature
- Electric car plant could park in metro Atlanta
- Hemp advocates turn up the volume
- Teaming up for green innovation
- Naturally Advanced seeks $1.4M
- Chevron breaks ground on solar plant (New Mexico)
- University of Oregon research leads to new light shelf
- The EPA issues greenhouse gas rules
- PG&E apologizes again (San Francisco)
- Oregon renewable projects snap up $218M in tax credits
- Lightweight metal startup looks at auto efficiency (Boston)
- ECOtality headed for Nasdaq
- Climate bill debuts in Washington, D.C.
- Oregon Wave Energy Trust launches grant program
- Report: BP takes blame for Gulf oil spill (Houston)
- Duke Energy expects coal costs to rise (Charlotte)
- SolarCity buys Building Solutions (Silicon Valley)
- eTec takes on new name
- Procter & Gamble to rate ‘supplier environmental sustainability’ (Cincinnati)
- Gulf oil spill testimony leaves unanswered questions (Houston)
- Natural gas complements renewables
- GM eyes Hawaii for hydrogen pilot
- Hawaii public schools to get solar power
- Dell computer packaging now compostable (Austin)
- New Oregon commercial building code aims at efficiency
- Green Empowerment exports clean energy knowledge
- PG&E apologizes for smart meter problems (San Francisco)
- Austin Energy building 21 solar learning centers
- SunPower Corp. gets $75M loan promise for Philippines plant (San Francisco)
- Oregon has two in top 10 'green' architecture firms
- Solar thermal plant pegged for Austin
- Energy plan ignites solar storm in New Mexico
- Off Grid Solar seeks incentives for Florida jobs
- PG&E’s tactics on community choice under fire (San Francisco)
- Solar installers face uncertainty with incentives (Phoenix)
- BP's oil spill price tag: $350M and counting (Houston)
- New wind turbine design goes vertical (Denver)
- Boston tech companies edge into energy
- Site Controls grows with energy management (Austin)
- Business sustainability, in practice
- Navistar to launch electric trucks in Portland
- Ze-gen plans waste-to-power plant (Boston)
- National Grid buys 50 percent of Cape Wind power (Boston)
- Low flow may lead to BPA rate hike
- Alpha Ecological aims for green growth
- CH2MHill awarded $9.5M contract (Sacramento)
- North Face gets EPA fine for shoe claim (San Francisco)
- Gulf oil spill reaches shore near Louisiana (Houston)
- House passes 'Cash for Caulkers' bill
- PG&E gets $25M for compressed air energy storage (San Francisco)
- Kettle Brand restores its backyard wetland
- Thanks, recession: CO2 emissions down in '09
- VCs pump $733M into U.S. clean tech in Q1 (Silicon Valley)
- Energy microgrids: Think small
- NW Natural Q1 profit off 8 percent
- SolarWorld enters hiring phase
- Puget Sound Energy sells system for $103M (Seattle)
- Wisconsin establishes clean-energy consortium
- Bradwood Landing LNG plan halted
- NW utilities re-up their commitment to efficiency, NEEA
- Hammer and Hand expands with 'upcycled' furniture
- Income diversification, small forest-style
- Department of Energy releases new BETC rules
- PGE's profits, sales fall short in first quarter
- Schwarzenegger now against new offshore drilling
- Google invests $39M in North Dakota wind farms
- Klamath declared drought disaster area
- Santa Fe County N.M. launches PACE program
- Florida company developing hybrid electricity plant
- Solar installer turns to commercial market (Austin)
- Biomass technology under review in North Carolina
- Solar industry grapples with potential slowdown (Phoenix)
- Energy efficiency cluster grows in Northern California
- Codexis lands $4.7M grant from DOE (Silicon Valley)
- Florida’s popular solar rebate program may sunset
- Washington D.C. backtracks on energy initiatives
- How to resuscitate the electric car
- PGE, Pacific Power rank high for renewable energy
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