Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
August 2011
- Video: Nobel laureate in Portland talks 'the commons'
- Helping tomorrow's sustainability leaders
- Secretary Chu: Sustainability is the new space race
- Solyndra shuts down, 1,100 jobs lost
- Naturally Advanced adds Portland executive
- Trellis Earth to move manufacturing to Wilsonville
- Project Frog raises $22M for green building kits
- Makad Energy raising $2.25M
- Conscious Commuter launches Kickstarter campaign
- Snohomish PUD drills geothermal well
- SoloPower secures Portland lease
- SunPower inks French deal
- Morrow County won't slap wind farm operator for noise
- Northeastern gets $2.3M grid research grant
- Report: Oregon will have 33,000 EV chargers by 2017
- UO amends campus plan for sustainable development
- Duke Energy's proposed Texas wind contract worth $820M
- Federal clean energy loan guarantee program faces pitfalls
- What's next for Oregon's mileage charge plan?
- Nissan Leaf hits Hood to Coast
- Mt. Bachelor goes solar
- Clean Energy Fuels gets $150M for natural gas fueling
- Women are key to a sustainable future
- Wind-vs.-water dispute heads to federal court
- Chick-fil-A Bowl hosts university sustainability summit
- Oregon gets nod for building code work
- Gresham installs water management technology
- Western energy grid at a $200B crossroads
- SoloPower loan guarantee is 'critical milestone'
- Energy Trust offers extra efficiency cash
- Oregon breaks ground on nation's largest solar highway project
- Climate Savers grows on interest in greener IT
- ClearEdge lands the big one: $73.5M
- Rice University researchers build large-scale energy storage
- Cleaner fuel could be Oregon's economic driver
- Toyota, Ford teaming up on hybrid technology
- Solyndra founder Gronet moving on
- U.S. losing ground in global solar market
- Abengoa green-lights cellulosic ethanol plan in Kansas
- Florida county eyes $1.5 billion solar project
- Five Portland brands to test next version of Eco Index
- Solar Millennium turns down DOE loan guarantee
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab opens biofuels test center
- SoloPower finalizes $197M federal loan guarantee
- Nike to eliminate hazardous chemical discharges by 2020
- Propel deal will expand renewable fuel access
- Skanska plans 'living building' in Seattle
- EPA honors Food Lion for green refrigeration
- Education for EV sustainability
- Commercial solar is Oregon's BETC casualty
- RelayRides rounds up $10M for carsharing
- Oregon getting 22 more fast EV chargers from AeroVironment
- Fluid Market Strategies acquired by CleaResult
- Caltrain: shared track with bullet train possible
- OPT delays Reedsport wave energy project
- NEEA launches 25% energy reduction drive
- Portland composting gets enthusiastic green light
- Vestas earnings beat Q2 forecast
- Invest in what matters
- Former Vestas exec pleads guilty to theft
- Oregon, NW will vie for piece of $510M biofuel funding
- Investors push Smuckers on climate impact of coffee
- Solon pulls plug on solar panel manufacturing in Ariz.
- ECOtality sees 77% jump in revenue
- iGo starts selling rechargeable batteries
- Vestas lands 112-turbine order
- Powin sales, profits drop as expenses climb
- OUS to break ground on Oregon's largest solar project
- Evergreen Solar files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy
- Here comes the new Tesla Model S
- ZeaChem partners with Chrysler
- EPA rule forces Duke to close coal plant
- Research snapshot: Parsing the green vote
- Solexant raises another $24M
- Skanska could be Oregon Sustainability Center tenant
- Obama's top enviro adviser comes to Portland
- Xzeres to sell 100 turbines to Vietnam customer
- AllEarth Renewables shifts from wind to solar power
- Austin firm gets $500M for wind system
- Plug Power cuts loss, expects 2012 profits
- PG&E appoints new CEO
- FirstEnergy misses solar target again
- SolarWorld sales, profits fall in first half
- PUC mulls role of utilities in EV charging
- PSU, PGE set to unveil Electric Ave.
- EcoDistricts' four energy challenges
- Council hears debate on composting plan
- Daimler applauds new efficiency standards
- Grape Solar now available in Home Depot
- Salmon coalition asks Obama for help
- Solazyme, Bunge form Brazil venture
- People a key to the sustainable equation
- June Key Delta set for grand opening
- SunPower to open Mexico solar plant
- Vestas to open Brazil nacelle plant
- Wind power turbines get more powerful
- Portland considering city-wide food composting
- Portland ranks third for 'Super Greenies'
- Research snapshot: U.S., China lead in renewables
- Georgia Power reducing reliance on coal
- First Solar Q2 earnings fall 62 percent
- Blount's efforts to cut lead use honored by EPA
- SVTC finalizes solar manufacturing contract
- U of Maryland launches environmental research center
- Helping designers make better choices
- Oregon's waves have draw from near and far
- Drive Oregon envisions state as EV testing hub
- WOU residence hall achieves LEED Platinum
- Boeing, Aeromexico team up on first commercial biofuel flight
- How the Super Bowl goes green
- Judge rejects federal salmon plan
- Turtle Island's Tofurky plant aims for LEED Platinum
- SBO Network: Greener Sports
- REI issuing $4.2M in grants for restoring natural spaces
- Paccess teams with Swedish company on sustainable materials
- UpWind Solutions plans $2.1M Kansas City facility
- Benchmade lands LEED Gold
- Maryland solar market heats up
- Gov. Kitzhaber declares Oregon Wave Week
- Rice University launches Houston sustainability study
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