Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
March 2012
- BPA filing comes under criticism
- Columbia Biogas to seek private financing
- Vestas names new chairman
- VC: Agilyx IPO could come this year
- Nike's Flyknit has a sustainable business story to tell
- Hawaii startup Volta pitches ad-subsidized EV charging
- Fuel cell company Plug Power raises $15M in offering
- ServiceMaster adds Ford electric vehicles to its fleet
- EPA seeks tighter emission rules for coal plants
- Solar Power Inc. hits record Q4
- Geothermal energy plant planned for Klamath wildlife refuge
- Austin launches sustainable business program
- Ikea Portland powers up more than 2,000 solar panels
- Lucid Energy planning 'Centers of Excellence'
- Vigilent raises $6.7M for energy management technology
- Transportation is a jobs creator
- SolarWorld's Brinser calls for faster response to illegal trade
- Recology supporters: Our argument is airtight
- Austin targets 'green' international investors
- Biogas facility underway near Sacramento
- Strata trying again for utility solar in N.C.
- Gov. Kitzhaber taps Hoffmann as energy adviser
- Tesla's stock hits new high on analyst upgrade
- Where to find Portland's sustainable food leaders
- MEI debuts processing tech for high-performance solar cells
- Report: BP oil spill contaminated Gulf food chain
- Jewelry designer raises global water awareness
- California to get $120M for EV charging
- How coal once brought economic gain to Portland
- Keeping wind turbines turning leads to growth
- Cleantech Open offers startups access to cash
- Cooperative innovation key to breakthroughs
- Oregon’s electric vehicle cluster rethinks its image
- Green chemistry center grows up, reaches out
- EV Project: Slower than projected, but alive and well
- Gallery: 10 cleantech leaders to watch
- TPI Composites launches wind turbine blade joint venture
- Ecova dips into its energy data vault
- XL Hybrids seeking $7M
- First Wind gets $236M for Hawaii project
- Coca-Cola updates progress on water initiatives
- Debate continues over Recology's Lents site for compost collection
- NW coal debate centers on jobs, the future of energy
- DOE defends loan guarantees to First Solar, Abengoa
- UK targets Oregon, West Coast for cleantech development
- Oregon BEST hires entrepreneurs-in-residence
- SunPower Corp. hires Charles Boynton as CFO
- Interface launches energy efficiency software tool
- Habitat for Humanity recycles billboards to bags
- Oregon utilities asked to plan for flexible power resources to back up renewables
- Hawaii plans 'clean economy bank'
- Cincinnati diverts 19,000 tons of waste from landfill
- Santa Rita Jail gets a green makeover
- U.S. makes call for tariffs in response to SolarWorld claim
- Use spin for good
- Electric motorcycle racing comes to Portland in June
- First Solar hit with investor lawsuit
- Energy-efficient glass company Soladigm raises $9.5M
- Fred Meyer adding EV chargers at I-5 corridor stores
- Wesley Clark joins SoloPower board
- Bill would boost bio-based manufacturers
- Tariffs loom for Suntech
- California utilities: Solar customers don't pay fair share
- Newsmakers: Jarvis puts new face on greener engineering
- Obama expected to aid SolarWorld's China tariff request
- Solar tax under new debate in Tennessee
- Arizona renewable standard cap bill may be unconstitutional
- Strata bags plan for 5MW N.C. solar farm
- Leading companies demonstrate social sustainability — inside and out
- Google's Atlanta data center using recycled water
- Oregon unveils its electrified highway
- Wyden joins bipartisan push for PTC extension
- Solar company 1st Light expands to Massachusetts
- IX Power in development agreement with Los Alamos
- Report: China home to five of top 10 solar module makers
- Pacific Ethanol issues stock
- EPEAT hires Frisbee to lead growth
- ECOtality lands ABB investment, licensing deal
- Killingsworth Station lands LEED Platinum
- Portland gives green light to bike-sharing program
- Chinese wind company sets up shop in North Carolina
- The West is setting the clean-economy pace
- West Coast leaders eye 1 million new clean jobs by 2020
- SolarCity, U.S. Bancorp launch military solar fund
- Solar thermal company hiring 100 in Florida
- Talking real estate in the 'New Economy'
- Naturally Advanced investing $8M in S. Carolina plant
- OpConnect to sell EV chargers to the Navy
- Clean Edge finds growth in clean energy despite tough 2011
- Columbia Biogas: A great opportunity for Portland
- Drive Oregon launches grant programs
- Less solar activity predicted for 2012
- New Mexico wrangles with transmission capacity for wind
- MidAmerican, Duke, GE drive big solar projects
- OUS solar project hits bump with REDCO bankruptcy
- Electric car maker Wheego raising $6M
- Vestas pulls plug on Massachusetts R&D facility
- Interstate cooperation the theme at Southeast wind conference
- JOBS Act passes House, supports crowdfunding
- Premier Power makes $27.6M deal for solar power plants
- Virdia raises $20M, plans Mississippi plant
- Columbia Biogas? In a word: unsustainable
- Helios joins SolarWorld in going public on China complaint
- SoloPower moves fast to fend off loan guarantee 'curse'
- NuScale forges DOE partnership in South Carolina
- Sustainable Harvest delivers profit with purpose
- Oregon Sustainability Center team to look for private backers
- Pepco building waste-to-energy plant in D.C.
- Nissan not worried by pace of Leaf sales
- MiaSole raises $55 million
- At Daimler, Obama talks up alternative-fuel vehicle plan
- Oregon B Corps. lauded for being 'best for the world'
- Bonneville Power submits oversupply plan with FERC
- Boeing teams with Chinese firm on emissions, conservation
- Southeastern U.S. convenes on wind development
- Powin, BPA join DOE working group on energy storage
- Oregon Sustainability Center denied financing
- RelayRides goes national
- SoloPower to ramp up Portland hiring
- Sustainable Alpha: Environmental borrowing
- Slow sales cast doubt on electric vehicles
- Review: Toyota Prius V still tops in fuel economy
- FoodHub makes second trip to White House
- City, PDC team for $1M cleantech grant disbursement
- Wheelz launches car sharing at U.C. Berkeley
- SEC investigating First Solar
- Ikea: We're not selling prefab homes, Ideabox is
- Columbia Biogas defends financing plan
- Silver Spring Networks raises $30 million
- Arizona's largest utility seeks proposals for solar plant
- Philadelphia Eagles team with NRG for green stadium power
- New Seasons overhauls 'Home Grown' program
- Calif. bill addresses common-area EV charging stations
- Tri-State to purchase power from Colorado wind farm
- SolarCity raises $81 million
- PacifiCorp anounces big Lakeview solar project
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