Green Technology
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Gallery: Polaris is ready to ace its tests
Oregon's only battery testing lab, which could play a critical role within the state's developing electric vehicle industry, is set to throw open its doors June 1. Polaris Battery Labs' Beaverton facility…
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Sustainable Alpha: Bruce Jenkyn-Jones talks resource optimization
Sustainable Alpha features shared conversations with the best minds, portfolio managers and industry leaders working to maximize returns while prioritizing the environment, social and governance factors…
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Future Energy Conference: Four tips on reenergizing your building
Chris Smith's company Energy 350 focuses on managing the energy demand of buildings. It makes sense, then, that Smith, speaking at Wednesday's Future Energy Conference, offered a set of rapid-fire pieces…
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Future Energy Conference: Google's search for renewables
Sam Arons, a member of Google Inc.'s Global Infrastructure team, captivated a crowd of about 300 energy industry types Tuesday afternoon at the Northwest Environmental Business Council's Future Energy…
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Nike seeks to ferret out non-green biz partners
Nike Inc. officials said Monday they’ve reached an agreement with a Swiss company that will help the local company procure more sustainable materials and chemistry types. Nike (NYSE: NKE) will work…
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IEEE sustainability conference extends call for papers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has extended a deadline for technical papers it will accept before its upcoming sustainability conference. The deadline for abstracts to be submitted…
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Experts: Speak plainly when touting cleantech
“Clean" and "Tech” are a couple of dirty words in the investment world lately — or, at least one dirty word, depending on who's using it. It's been tarnished by green-washing and the hype surrounding…
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Three things I learned about cleantech today
SBO's awesome freelancer Lee van der Voo has a great piece running on our site tomorrow in which she details a talk earlier this week on cleantech investing. We're posting the article tomorrow morning,…
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Crailar names new CFO ahead of jump to major exchange
Crailar Technologies Inc. on Monday named a new chief financial officer with experience guiding startups into larger public enterprises. The hiring of Ted Sanders comes as the company — with operations…
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Q&A: Merkley on green jobs subcommittee's powerful Oregon tie
Earlier this week the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced that he'd been appointed chairman of a Senate subcommittee focused on green jobs and the clean economy. In a statement, Merkley said…
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NW Energy Angels invested close to $4.7M in 2012
Regional investment network Northwest Energy Angels announced Tuesday that the group invested $4,696,500 in 15 cleantech companies in 2012 — the biggest investment year since the group was founded in…
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Sustainability adds to profit for one-third of companies
More than a third of U.S. companies say their efforts to boost sustainability have, in turn, generated profits for their businesses, according to a report from Bloomberg. Roughly 37 percent of the executives…
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Solazyme signs another $20M partnership deal
Solazyme Inc., a South San Francisco-based maker of renewable oils, has signed a $20 million partnership with Mitsui Co., to produce products that could be used in plastics, lubricants and household products. Product…
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Portland startup Byngo marries sustainability with gaming
Lewis & Clark College is among several colleges and companies teaming with software startup Byngo to test-drive the Portland-based company's new cloud gaming software this week. Despite its name, the…
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Nest to raise $80M for smart thermostats
Nest, makers of smart, sleek thermostats that learn user behavior and adjust to save residents money, has reportedly raised $80 million, according to tech blog GigaOm. GigaOm said the company is shipping…
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PNNL strikes licensing deal for fast-charging battery technology
Battelle struck a deal to commercially license battery technology developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to Vorbeck Materials Corp. The battery technology holds the promise of reducing…
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Sacramento sees a quiet cleantech boom
Revenue and employment from Sacramento area cleantech manufacturing and design companies both got big boosts in 2012, setting new records for the region’s cleantech sector, according to a report released…
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Waste Management, Arizona State partner on sustainability forum
Waste Management Inc. and Arizona State University are partnering on the third annual Executive Sustainability Forum next week, providing business leaders with ideas on how to implement sustainability…
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Ohio, Ky. and Ind. sign landmark water agreement aimed at innovation
State regulators with Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana signed a landmark cooperative agreement aimed at making Greater Cincinnati a more attractive location for companies working to snag a piece of the lucrative…
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Newsmakers: Herman D'Hooge on what makes smart cities tick
Herman D'Hooge wants cities to get smarter. Take Portland, for example. D'Hooge sees it as a system of systems — economy, housing, education, public safety, transportation, health care, government services…
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Army Corps HQ in Seattle wins national green building award
A national group gave a first place green building award to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' new district headquarters in South Seattle. The Sustainable Buildings Industry Council made the presentation…
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Looptworks hits Consumer Electronics Show
There are plenty of Portland tech companies that make their yearly pilgrimage to Las Vegas this time of year for the annual International Consumer Electronics Show, but it was the first trip to the expo…
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Penrith exits Earth Advantage, CakeSystems
At the end of the year, Sean Penrith, long-time executive director at Earth Advantage Institute, resigned his post as CEO-in-waiting of the nonprofit's first for-profit spinoff CakeSystems Inc. "Since…
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At Inspired Light, former HP innovator takes on solar power
Frank Cloutier has a favorite quote: “Do it and brag, not the other way around." So he hasn’t talked much about happenings at Corvallis-based Inspired Light, where he is currently CEO, although he…
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Best of 2012: Top news stories of the year
It was a lively news year at Sustainable Business Oregon. Organized opposition to a half dozen coal export facilities planned for development in the Pacific Northwest set off a flurry of coverage that…
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