Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
July 2010
- Playhouses go green
- Solyndra signs 20-year power deal (Silicon Valley)
- Stahlbush Island Farms' organic pumpkin goes to the dogs
- OMSI debuts solar-powered charging canopy
- Nike, Outdoor Industry Association launch eco-friendly indexes
- Zidell begins $20 million waterfront cleanup
- LS9 to make fuel from sugar (San Francisco)
- Vestas shakes up Portland exec team
- SolarWorld revenue picture improves by 70 percent
- CollegeNET helps schools reach sustainability goals
- Keen's new green line set to launch, Portland store to open
- Saying is one thing, doing is another: Implementing sustainability programs with success
- Duke Energy wants to be the Amazon of utilities (Charlotte)
- Study: Northwest poised to lead clean-energy transition
- Oregon farms press forward on organic seeds
- Report shows wind industry in distress
- California may kill $30M in energy grants
- Study: IT sector cuts CO2 emissions by 32M metric tons
- Smart grid washing machine debuts (Austin)
- Solyndra swaps CEOs (San Francisco)
- First Wind gets $117M loan guarantee for project in Hawaii
- ECOtality unveils electric car chargers
- Portland poised to create new sustainability commission
- Enterprise buying 500 electric cars from Nissan (St. Louis)
- Thin-film solar forecast: Partly cloudy
- When it's time to do business in Germany: Tips for clean-tech leaders
- Iberdrola nets $170M stimulus grant for Illinois wind project
- PGE completes massive rooftop solar installation
- St. Louis lands over $100M in biofuels funding
- Thermo Fluids launches oil filter recycling (Phoenix)
- Medical space gets behind greener design (Austin)
- Solar impact flares in Hawaii
- GE Appliances eneter the 'green' age (Louisville)
- SolarWorld struts further into fashion
- Colorado energy sector seeing mixed opportunities
- North Carolina mulls trees as renewable resource
- Zero-energy community proposed for Sacramento
- Ambiente aims at international electric truck business
- Adams shelves plastic bag ban in favor of statewide effort
- Duke Energy slashes Indiana smart-grid plan
- Senate Democrats give up on comprehensive climate bill
- Novomer gets $18.4M from DOE (Boston)
- Maryland governor calls for long-term electricity study
- Berkeley Lab to help with $122M sunlight fuel project
- Skyonic Corp. given $25M energy grant (Austin)
- Sustainability center at crossroads
- Statewide plastic bag ban in jeopardy
- Oregon joins greenhouse gas lawsuit
- Oregon BEST launches grant program
- Ecoroof redux at Ecotrust
- Ritter launches 'energy challenge' for Colorado businesses
- Study: Good U.S. transit will cost $77B
- A different view on transmission lines
- Tangent farm makes transition to organic wheat
- Jackson County makes a play for sustainable business
- Portland group unveils minimalist green house design
- Vestas takes largest wind turbine order yet
- Van Jones tells Sacramento to 'dream big' on green energy
- Duke Energy: Renewables are 'niche' power source
- Applied Materials to cut 500 in solar reorg (Silicon Valley)
- Solar Energy Initiatives completes spinoff (Jacksonville)
- Xerox ink gets green props from Blue Legacy
- Washington gets $1M to study forest biomass
- Rogue River Wind acquires wind technology
- Professionals convene for Oregon showcase
- Portland State lands $3M grant for ecosystem services
- Tyco unit opens $25M nuclear testing facility (Boston)
- VW expands Bay Area lab as it goes green
- Obama calls for more greenhouse gas cuts
- Honda to boost 'green' efforts, plans plug-in hybrid
- Portland passes wide-ranging electric vehicle policy
- Oregon biomass tax credit: Change is upon us
- Solexant announces new solar plant in Gresham
- Greenway Recycling expands services
- Economic growth in the wind for Vestas (Denver)
- Insiders: Big players are tying up solar incentives (Phoenix)
- 'Going green' hot idea in construction, but trickle-down effect has been slow
- Clock running out for solar firms
- Tesla, Toyota charge ahead on electric RAV4
- Gerding Edlen's Green Cities fund raises another $5M
- Adams pushes plastic bag ban
- Looptworks launches retail strategy
- SolarCity raises $21 million (San Francisco)
- Azuray Technologies lands $5M
- Biglow Canyon wind farm nears completion
- BP buying Verenium's biofuels business for $98M (Boston)
- California sues feds over PACE (San Francisco)
- Smart grid company Trilliant raises $106M (Silicon Valley)
- Brammo announces fast electric motorcycles
- Oregon group takes lead on smart grid
- A sustainable 'bang for the buck'
- Hillsboro wins EPA award
- Groups shine light on transmission issue
- PNNL, China team up on clean energy
- GE, VCs launch $200M electric grid challenge (Silicon Valley)
- New England governors define energy reduction goal
- Zeta Communities raises $5M for net-zero homes (San Francisco)
- Businesses back bag ban
- Rensselaer Polytechnic lands $2M for nuclear energy
- Vestas plans to hire hundreds for three Colorado plants
- Idling trucks now a no-no in North Carolina
- Clean energy transmission: The missing link
- First Tesla-Toyota prototypes ID'd as RAV4, Lexus RX (Silicon Valley)
- Energy guru pursues offshore wind
- Solar feed-in tariff rush shakes out for Oregon businesses
- First Solar completes NextLight purchase (Phoenix)
- Study: Pollution making Puget Sound more acidic
- Bloom Energy seeks $100M boost (Silicon Valley)
- When it's time to tell your sustainability story
- ReVenture plan close to landing N.C. legislative deal
- Maryland wind farm draws protests
- ADA-ES to lead $14M clean-coal project (Denver)
- Incentive changes slow solar job growth (Phoenix)
- PG&E, clean-tech industry fight Prop. 23 in California
- Airport joins effort to promote biofuels
- PGE taps social media for Boardman campaign
- Surimi may be boon to Oregon fish industry
- Iberdrola achieves record wind output in U.S.
- TriMet gets $2 million for hybrid buses
- Oregon Clinic hits annual rainwater collection goal
- Solasta shuts down (Boston)
- Converted Organics buys Boston vertical farming firm for $26M
- Grape Solar chases Canadian sales with consortium
- BPA sets up website to monitor power consumption
- Oregon gets $3M for biomass projects
- Obama: Kansas City’s Smith is helping fight a ‘vicious recession’
- PowerFin will spend $100M on solar projects (Austin)
- Electric vehicle maker ZAP to buy China's Jonway (San Francisco)
- Smart grid spending to top $45 billion (Boston)
- Coulomb gets $3.4M from California Energy Commission for electric vehicle charging stations
- Green chemistry group seeks $2.5 million
- Western Climate Initiative: regional cap-and-trade could save $100B
- Vestas to build R&D facility in Colorado
- Smart electric car coming to Portland Saturday
- Former Kettle CEO lands new job
- EasyStreet unveils efficient data center
- Cantwell: Oil industry has failed to prepare
- Lenders deal blow to PACE energy finance program (San Francisco)
- Multnomah County launches sustainable purchasing policy
- Port of Portland HQ named among the world's greenest
- EcoloBlue to turn humidity into water (Washington, D.C.)
- MEMC to buy solar modules from JA Solar (St. Louis)
- Unifi invests in biomass (Greeensboro)
- Smart grid upgrades should help prevent blackouts (Philadelphia)
- Green homes gain market share
- University of Houston lands wind energy grant
- Power companies step in to propel Texas wind project
- Compass Group champions local food (Charlotte)
- Boston companies explore industrial energy efficiencies
- International firms bet big on NY energy market
- Earth-friendly tape adhesive devised at OSU
- How to lead the nation in sustainable built environment innovation
- DOE releases new rules for biomass credit
- MEMC Electronics Materials buys Solaicx
- Oregon paint recycling program leads the nation
- Oregon's rock star
- Dees joins advisory board of PSU entrepreneurial program
- Clean-tech venture capital: $202M for Oregon so far this year
- Oregon third in new sustainability ranking
- First Solar creates utility business (Phoenix)
- Feds give $9M for Florida fuel-cell research
- Hoku borrows $28.3M for Idaho polysilicon plant
- Arizona Corporation Commission approves power agreement for schools, nonprofits
- 'Greenprint' aims to focus Portland's regional economy
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