Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
February 2012
- Oregon Wave Energy Trust opens grant program
- Ruling opens door for Oregon utilities on EV charging
- Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation installing solar at Taliesin West
- Better Place switches on Hawaii EV charging network
- FirstEnergy eyes small modular nuclear reactors
- First Solar delays Arizona manufacturing
- Abound Solar lays off 180
- Car2Go announces Portland car-sharing service
- Portland No. 4 on 'Future Metropolis' index
- Lygos spins out of Lawrence Berkeley Lab institute
- Kaiser Permanente to cut carbon 30% by 2020
- Oregon lawmakers have opportunity on plastics recycling
- PSU's Electric Avenue gets new fast charger from Kanematsu
- EnXco, Riverbank partnering on pumped storage
- [3Bl]ooming Honcho: Guru Simrat Khalsa
- New Mexico smart grid projects key for Japan
- Envia's battery vision: cheaper, better electric cars
- Amyris raises $83.7 million
- New Seasons gives $82,000 to local ag groups
- BETC clarification bill passes in Salem
- Seattle's Model Remodel turns to 'green' for growth
- Ryno lands 'Portlandia' cameo
- Xzeres raises $1.4M to meet rising demand
- Tendril Networks acquires Recurve
- Solar Power Inc. lands Greece project
- Great Point in $1.25B China coal-to-gas plant deal
- PSU sustainability program picks projects to change the world
- Oregon grant process for renewable energy begins next week
- White House announces alternative fuels competition
- Georgia landfill turns solar energy generator
- SolarCity opens New Jersey operations center
- GE engines to power China landfill energy project
- Tax planning can be energy efficient for architects and engineers
- Gallery: Zen Bicycle's frame-buildng shop ramps up
- FirstFuel gets $10 million
- Zen Bicycle launches into a boom
- Gallery: Inside Ideabox's Ikea creation
- Oregon's solar feed-in tariff program gets an update
- Tesla downplays 'brick' threat
- SolarCity, Shea Homes launch ‘No Electric Bill Home’
- Zipcar leads $13.7M investment in Wheelz car sharing service
- Gallery: Getaround revs up Portland launch
- Organically Grown expands in Gresham
- EcoZoom installs 10,000 cookstoves in Mexico
- Ameresco to build biogas plant in Philadelphia
- $13B green energy fund moves forward in Ohio
- Creative Recycling Systems signs on with NASCAR
- Apple plans big solar, fuel cells at its N.C. data center
- Greenpeace ship highlights sustainable boating
- Nike unveils eco-friendly innovations
- Bon Appetit prioritizes animal welfare with new policy
- Solar has record year in Hawaii
- Solar industry awaits China trade decision
- Tesla takes $40M in model X orders in one day
- Naturally Advanced hires Oregon flax adviser
- Oregon doesn't need coal
- First Wind breaks ground on Hawaii's largest wind farm
- Nanosolar lands $20 million
- Trellis Earth rolls out scaled-back IPO
- Solar bides its time in the South
- SunPower stock spikes on better-than-expected Q4
- New Mexico tribes win $1.37M for renewable energy
- PECI laying off 15% of employees
- MotoCzysz, Brammo have company, Honda gets into e-racing
- OSU center gets grant to study offshore wind impact on birds
- Zipcar hits profit, warns of tough 2012
- MIT pushes liquid metal battery technology
- SunPower, SolarCity in legal battle
- EnerG2 kicks off production in Albany
- PTC extension absent from payroll tax deal
- Tesla: 2012 will be mixed year
- Iberdrola signs purchase deal for California wind farm
- Portland brings order to food-growing chaos
- Portland partners with Brazilian firm on cleantech
- Apple CEO defends supply chain record
- Boxx Corp. making square splash with electric scooter
- Energy Points launches sustainability metric
- Solar Junction raises $19.2M
- PG&E gets record 300 bids for renewable energy projects
- Obama energy budget: all about cleantech, shale
- Take cues from Europe on transportation
- Amyris trades biofuels for cosmetics
- Electric vehicles pollute more than gas cars in China
- Gallery: Calbag's wire recycling is West Coast's greenest
- NuScale, others go after federal funding
- Wind operators, RNP protest latest BPA proposal
- Green Sports Alliance adds its first Formula One venue
- Texas challenges EPA greenhouse gas regulations
- Denver law students block logging permit
- Tennessee airport aims to lure business with solar array
- Sacramento region lands electric vehicle grant
- Jared Bernstein brings Washington perspective on green jobs
- Tesla unveils Model X SUV
- Umpqua Energy named top energy innovator by DOE
- Bee Local raising money to export hyperlocal honey concept
- Sustainable Alpha: The role of energy prices
- Cintas switching to 'green' cleaner
- DOE's Chu talks shale in Pittsburgh
- Gallery: Better Bricks recognizes green building leaders
- OSU, UP students join national efficiency competition
- Report: Cleantech VC dollars down in 2011
- Bragdon links New York, Portland as green cities
- Farm Power investing millions in Northwest dairy towns
- Despite uncertainty, Portland keeps wind industry bet
- DOE to dole out $20M for energy storage research
- California's 'green' economy outperforms
- Umatilla tribes: No wind farms on tribal land
- Most Colorado Congress members back PTC extension
- Case Study: Country Natural Beef
- PDC approves Iberdrola grant
- CFO, chairman exit Vestas after earnings miss
- Transforming the debate on green building leadership
- Arizona's renewable energy industry worth $2B
- Nike partners with Dutch firm on waterless fabric dyeing
- Bonneville Power offers to pay wind producers for oversupply
- ACEEE crowns Mitsubishi i-MIEV the greenest
- Cincinnati eyes 100% renewable energy
- TradeWind wants to build $500M Kansas wind farm
- Hawaiian Electric solar water proposal suspended
- Brewery waste-to-power firm raises capital
- Sanyo closing California solar plant, Salem unaffected
- Growstone recycles glass for greener growing
- Ideabox partners with Ikea on home design
- Offshore wind clears hurdle in Maryland
- Report: Austin bag ban could cost Texas 8,800 jobs
- The Joinery bakes briquettes to cut waste
- Bonneville Power stretches grid flexibility for wind energy
- BrightSource to bring solar to South Africa
- Iberdrola staying in Portland with help from $1.1M PDC grant
- Dynamic renewable energy market means a busy 2012
- Deborah Kane lands federal farm-to-school post
- Zipcar buys stake in Spain’s Avancar
- MIT making solar panels from plants
- Lawrence Livermore to work with Navajo Nation on energy
- Net-zero energy building to become $1.3 trillion market
- Powin Energy hones in on battery technology
- SolarCity seen filing for IPO at $1.5B valuation
- Oregon beefing up bike tourism
- Study: Disclose green strategy, watch stock price rise
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