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Archive for May, 2008

San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal Gets the Green Light - Contract Awarded to Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

First look at what’s to come here. Looks like the structure will incorporate an almost 5 1/2 acre green roof, high-performance glazed glass bolstered by passive solar shading, wind turbines, a geothermal heating and cooling system, and a sophisticated rain and graywater recycling system that will also be able to provide water to neighboring [...]

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If They Would Only Let Me Test Drive This One… (hint, hint)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

From Treehugger today: Hybrid Technologies is entering a niche currently occupied by Tesla Motors: The green(er) super-car. It’s not for sale (it’s not even clear if it has a name yet), but a drivable prototype should be ready by September, and Hybrid Technologies are planning two drivetrains: Gasoline-electric hybrid, a version that will compete [...]

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IBM Launches Supply Chain Carbon Analysis Tool

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

This story, per Greenbiz, is encouraging, and fascinating at the same time. I’ll be interested to know what the sales of the Carbon Tradeoff Modeler end up being over time and which companies sign on first. And then, in year or two, I’ll be interested to know who, of the F1000, for instance, [...]

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Building the Way To Water Efficiency

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Just in case you were all wondering why I was so quiet the last couple of weeks…just been working away. Here’s my latest post for Greener World Media. See http://www.greenerbuildings.com/feature/2008/05/22/building-way-water-efficiency
As always, I have Matt to thank for his ever-insightful editorial guidance. No article gets out the door without getting [...]

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Innovative Solutions to Managing Wastewater

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

More people will soon live in cities than in rural areas, and 18 of the 23 mega cities worldwide will be in a river delta or on the coast. As a result, water safety risks will increase, pressure on water systems will grow, and the amount of sewage water will swell.
Dow Chemical’s Terneuzen manufacturing site [...]

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Fujitsu Monitor Uses No Energy While In Idle Mode

Monday, May 19th, 2008

From Red Orbit, by way of EL…
COMPUTER monitors in standby mode will soon save far more energy.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed the world’s first monitor that requires no electricity at all when in idle mode.
The innovation is based on a new switch in the monitor that shuts it down entirely when the computer signal is [...]

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The Largest Zero-Emission Fleet in the World

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Thanks to Green Car Congress and Treehugger for this heads up:
Pretty interesting news, considering how big TNT is. More here, on TNT, and the press release on the subject.
The company has ordered 100 Newton electric delivery trucks manufactured by Smith Electric Vehicles, which adds to the 50 vehicles ordered last [...]

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Cleantech research gets a cash infusion

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

For those of you who haven’t had a chance to catch up on all the latest deals, I like David’s regular updates. See more below.
May 8 Exclusive By David Ehrlich, Cleantech Group
Corporate and government backed funding flows to biofuel, carbon capture, marine power and fuel cell technology, with 18 deals spotted over [...]

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Now Accepting Applications - The California Clean Tech Open 2008

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I had a chance to attend the California Clean Tech Open’s 2008 Entrepreneur Matching Event the other night, and went, wanting to see how different things would look from even just a year ago, or two years ago, and knowing that the CCTO 2008 was about to roll up its sleeves for a new year’s [...]

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On Green Design

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Happy Friday, everybody. I have a few things I want to post on today, but I thought first of all that you would enjoy looking at Ann Demeulemeester’s store in Seoul. I love the green walled exterior, as much as the idea of inner green walls. Design by Mass Studies.

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Kleiner Fund Targets Large Companies Pursuing “Green” Ventures & KKR Teams With EDF

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Interesting….more here and here.

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FSC, Datamatic Announce Leak-Detection Partnership

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Interesting news for the day, considering how much money as well as energy is wasted from water not reaching its intended source as the result of leaky pipes. More interesting when you ponder how much money probably needs to go into fixing up our water infrastructure in the next 20-odd years…and what technologies are [...]

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