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Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project Findings – Airborne Contaminants Study Released Measurable Levels Detected in Twenty Western U.S. and Alaska National Parks

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Here’s the link to the results of a six year multi-agency study of airborne contamination in 20 Western national parks and monuments recently released by the Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project.
And the press release on the subject:
For Immediate Release: February 26, 2008
Contact(s): David Barna, 202-208-6843; Colleen Flanagan, 303-969-2011
Airborne Contaminants Study Released Measurable [...]

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Global Warming To Turn Lake Tahoe Green?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

This is an article worth reading, as it points out that global warming may in fact turn Lake Tahoe green in no more than a decade.

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Southern California Edison Launches Nation’s Largest Solar Panel Installation – Will Convert 65 Million Square Feet of Unused Roofs into Solar Generating Stations

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I love seeing progress like this. And we will see more of such projects, I’m certain. I suspect future large-scale projects will dwarf even this one…but for now, this is the biggest solar cell installation in the U.S. yet. Read on…and happy Friday everybody…
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ROSEMEAD, Calif., March 27, 2008 – Southern California Edison [...]

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The Clean Tech Accelerator

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I had the opportunity to speak recently with Paula Rhoades, the Managing Director of the Clean Tech Group’s Clean Tech Accelerator.
As someone who thinks about business development generally most of my daily grind, understanding how the Clean Tech Group planned to play with the Accelerator concept was something I wanted to get a grip on, [...]

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What Price Energy?

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Did you know that it only takes 4mg of mercury to contaminate up to 7,000 gallons of freshwater?
Each year an estimated 600 million fluorescent lamps are disposed of in U.S. landfills, amounting to 30,000 pounds of mercury waste. That’s enough to pollute nearly every lake, pond, river and stream in North America. It’s also, [...]

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On Green Fleet Developments in Silicon Valley: An Update From The Environmental Business Cluster

Monday, March 17th, 2008

The greening of transportation is an interesting topic in our household, in part because Jon and I have both independently spent and still spend time looking at various pieces of the transportation puzzle: he’s focused on hydrogen economy projects at work, and I’ve only recently (in the last 4 years) pulled my head out of [...]

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London to light way with LEDs

Friday, March 14th, 2008

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Sunday, 9 March 2008
London yesterday launched an attempt to become the first city in the world to be lit by LEDs – light-emitting diodes. The city aims to install LEDs in all its street lights within five years.
Nicky Gavron, the deputy mayor, yesterday unveiled four demonstration projects – in Potters Field [...]

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Clean Edge Finds Four Benchmark Sectors Up 40% From Prior Year

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

I sat in on CleanEdge’s Annual Clean Energy Trends Teleconference this morning, (and I always consider myself quite fortunate to be invited to do so), as Ron Pernick, Joel Makower, and Clint Wilder discussed what is the 7th report issued by CleanEdge.
There’s great progress being made with regard to clean energy. We’re talking [...]

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Regional Winners for City of the Future Challenge

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Hmm…interesting. Want to see one company’s vision of a San Francisco of the future? More here.
I originally stumbled on this through Yahoo Green.

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Conferences of Note Upcoming…

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

I’m doing the mad scramble today before Jon and I drive up to Oregon, so this list is pretty short, but these are a couple of conferences well worth attending, or, if you can’t go, reading more about and learning from. I wish I could go to all of them…
1. The EcoCity World [...]

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GE Invests in Electric Vehicle Producer Think and Battery Manufacturer A123Systems to Commercialize Electric Car

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Pulled from BusinessWire…
GENEVA & WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GE (NYSE: GE) announced it is ramping up its efforts to enable global electrification of transportation by investing in Norwegian electric car manufacturer Think, which unveiled a five-seat crossover concept car in Geneva today. To power its vehicles, Think has signed a commercial supply agreement with lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123Systems. [...]

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Retailers Take Note: Consumers Will Forgo ‘Convenience Packaging’ to Help Environment

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

MARCH 04, 2008 — Research from The Nielsen Company shows that more than half of U.S. consumers would give up all forms of packaging provided for convenience purposes if it would benefit the environment, including: packaging designed for easy stacking/storing at home (58%); packaging that can be used for cooking, or doubling as a resealable [...]

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Vitamin B-2 : Is It Key For Converting Waste to Electricity?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as vitamin B-2) is responsible for much of the energy produced by these organisms.
The bacteria, Shewanella, are commonly found in water and soil and are of interest because they can convert simple organic compounds [...]

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