Saturday, October 30, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tis the season for home efficiency
(ARA) - As the cold weather and holidays approach, homeowners are preparing to spend more time indoors. Winter utility bills can get expensive, and in an economic climate as biting as the frost, consumers are watching every penny. From insulation, to appliances, to faucets, these upcoming months are an opportune time for homeowners to make their homes more efficient, reducing costs and the family's carbon footprint.Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Navy boat uses algae-based fuel on way to 'green fleet' – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
The U.S. Navy has used a biofuel to operate a boat at full power for the first time, the Pentagon announced, and it plans to create an alternatively fueled carrier strike group within two years.
An experimental riverine command boat zipped through the water Friday at the Norfolk, Virginia, naval base, burning a 50/50 blend of algae-based fuel and a water-free diesel known as HR-D, the Navy said in a press release.
Earlier this year, the Navy flew an F-18 Hornet fighter jet – nicknamed the Green Hornet – on a blend of camelina-based fuel and gasoline, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said at an energy security forum at the Pentagon. Camelina is a plant that produces oily seeds similar to flax."
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Proposed Jersey City ‘Ban’ on Plastic Bags Has Narrow Focus; Most Businesses Would Not be Affected
While the news last week that Jersey City was going to consider a ban on most plastic bags has garnered considerable attention, the actual proposal is quite limited in scope and would apply to very few businesses in the city.
Under the proposed bill, which is set to be introduced at this week’s City Council meeting, applicable businesses would have to provide only recyclable paper bags, reusable bags and/or compostable plastic bags as checkout bags for their customers.
But a store would only be forced to comply with the regulation under two circumstances: if it is a “full-line, self-service supermarket with gross annual sales of two million dollars or more,” or if it is “a retail pharmacy with at least five locations under the same ownership within the geographical limits of Jersey City.” (Most of the large pharmacy chains do not have that many branches in Jersey City; by our quick calculation, Rite Aid is the only company with five or more Jersey City locations.)"
Solar-Power Plant Gets U.S. Approval - WSJ.com
A proposal to build the world's biggest solar-thermal power plant in the Southern California desert got the go-ahead Monday from the Obama administration, which used the announcement to bolster its message that renewable energy creates jobs.
Dow Corning CEO Calls for Focus on Green Manufacturing
MIDLAND, Mich., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Immediate, decisive investments in the green manufacturing sector can help boost America's exports, lower the trade deficit, create jobs and increase its competitiveness in a dynamic world marketplace, according to Dr. Stephanie A. Burns, chairman, president and CEO of Dow Corning Corp. 'I'm convinced that green jobs, especially green manufacturing jobs, can be a major factor in our economic recovery,' she said. 'I believe that with the right mix of private investment, government support, and entrepreneurial spirit, we can revitalize the heart of our nation's economy – our manufacturing sector. We need to make this commitment now, or the net long-term effect will be the export of jobs today and the import of foreign-made solar panels tomorrow.'"
Monday, October 25, 2010
MLB to go green during World Series | MLB.com: News
MLB to go green during World Series | MLB.com: News: "When the 106th World Series opens on Wednesday, MLB is once again putting the environment front and center on baseball's biggest stage.
Thanks to a special partnership between MLB and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), environmental issues will be highlighted again at the World Series. The 81st annual All-Star Game in Anaheim this past July featured many similar practices to raise awareness among fans, while putting on an environmentally friendly event.
Community initiatives are nothing new for the league or either of the two teams, the Rangers and Giants. Both clubs, along with the other 28, undertake a vast array of initiatives in and around their communities throughout the season. The Giants and Rangers are set to continue their efforts throughout the World Series, including a variety of school and hospital visits throughout Games 1 through 4.
Neither team is new to such intiatives, employing tactics to lessen their environmental footprint on their communities on a regular basis."
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Green Rankings - Newsweek
Green Rankings - Newsweek: "NEWSWEEK's 2010 Green Rankings is a data-driven assessment of the largest companies in the U.S. and in the world. Our goal was to cut through the green chatter and quantify the actual environmental footprints, policies, and reputations of these big businesses. To do this, we teamed up with three leading environmental research organizations to create the most comprehensive rankings available.�Who made the top 10? View our methodology."
Connecticut Home Builders Promote Energy Savings - NYTimes.com
BUILDERS are trying a bread-and-butter approach to promoting environmentally conscious construction, using previous buyers’ heating and cooling bills to persuade shoppers that buying new will save them money.
It’s a practical appeal to cost-conscious buyers who are likely to be far less impressed by the R value of a new home’s insulation than by a winter heating bill totaling less than $100.
“We’re promoting the energy efficiency of green because that puts green in your pocket,” said Mark Nuzzolo, a partner with his wife, D. J. Collins, in Brookside Development of Woodbridge."
It’s a practical appeal to cost-conscious buyers who are likely to be far less impressed by the R value of a new home’s insulation than by a winter heating bill totaling less than $100.
“We’re promoting the energy efficiency of green because that puts green in your pocket,” said Mark Nuzzolo, a partner with his wife, D. J. Collins, in Brookside Development of Woodbridge."
Saturday, October 23, 2010
What is Green Living All About?
Author: David Drennan
Green living is a lifestyle that is adapted by those who want to save the Earth's natural resources and its environment. This type of living enables you to live your life in an eco-friendly and responsible manner. When you decide to carry out this lifestyle then you have to minimize the size of your ecological footprint. This lifestyle teaches you how to conserve organic food choices, alternative energy, green construction, sustainability, recycling, resources and other environmental topics.
Green Lifestyle – It is true that your decision of accepting the green lifestyle will definitely affect the environment in a positive way. Your ecological consciousness and care for the earth really benefits the whole environment and all the human beings. Green living contains proponents that play a very important role in preserving the earth for future generations of human beings and other life.
Green Technology –The importance of this technology is evident from the fact that it works wonders when it comes to conserving the energy, green nanotechnology, green chemistry, environmentally preferred purchasing, green building and soil health. You can easily develop green technology through smart electricity grids, toxic-waste-eating tress and floating environmental sensors.
Green Building –This is known as the practice of applying eco-friendly building materials. In doing so, most residential and commercial projects are designed in order to be more energy efficient.
Green Energy – According to green technologists, the production of energy should take place with the help of world's fossil fuels and natural resources instead of using the entire world's coal.
Organic Food – The food items come under the category of organic food that are processed, produced and packaged without taking the help of chemicals. In the present scenario, most people are using this food as this alternative provides more health benefits as compared to conventional food.
Renewable Energy – This energy is considered as the center of green living and encourages the one to use the wind, solar and other alternative forms of energy.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/what-is-green-living-all-about-3324137.html
About the AuthorDavid Drennan is a famous writer who comprises several dedicated years of experience on providing the content on various ultimate and advanced traditions for living well. He also covers topics ranging from natural living, natural remedies, quick healthy meals, health and wellness, inspirational stories, spirituality to work and family.For more information visit Green living.
Green living is a lifestyle that is adapted by those who want to save the Earth's natural resources and its environment. This type of living enables you to live your life in an eco-friendly and responsible manner. When you decide to carry out this lifestyle then you have to minimize the size of your ecological footprint. This lifestyle teaches you how to conserve organic food choices, alternative energy, green construction, sustainability, recycling, resources and other environmental topics.
Green Lifestyle – It is true that your decision of accepting the green lifestyle will definitely affect the environment in a positive way. Your ecological consciousness and care for the earth really benefits the whole environment and all the human beings. Green living contains proponents that play a very important role in preserving the earth for future generations of human beings and other life.
Green Technology –The importance of this technology is evident from the fact that it works wonders when it comes to conserving the energy, green nanotechnology, green chemistry, environmentally preferred purchasing, green building and soil health. You can easily develop green technology through smart electricity grids, toxic-waste-eating tress and floating environmental sensors.
Green Building –This is known as the practice of applying eco-friendly building materials. In doing so, most residential and commercial projects are designed in order to be more energy efficient.
Green Energy – According to green technologists, the production of energy should take place with the help of world's fossil fuels and natural resources instead of using the entire world's coal.
Organic Food – The food items come under the category of organic food that are processed, produced and packaged without taking the help of chemicals. In the present scenario, most people are using this food as this alternative provides more health benefits as compared to conventional food.
Renewable Energy – This energy is considered as the center of green living and encourages the one to use the wind, solar and other alternative forms of energy.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/what-is-green-living-all-about-3324137.html
About the AuthorDavid Drennan is a famous writer who comprises several dedicated years of experience on providing the content on various ultimate and advanced traditions for living well. He also covers topics ranging from natural living, natural remedies, quick healthy meals, health and wellness, inspirational stories, spirituality to work and family.For more information visit Green living.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
1-megawatt facility expected to create jobs, curb pollution
Government officials and solar-power leaders hailed the activation Monday of a 1-mega-watt solar plant on Tucson's north side as a job-creating, money-saving, pollution-reducing boon to Pima County.
The plant's 3,700 solar panels were built locally by Solon Corp., a solar technology manufacturer, at its factory in Tucson. SunEdison, a solar energy services provider, funded the plant.
The roughly 2-acre photovoltaic plant will help power the Roger Road Wastewater Reclamation Facility, 3035 W. El Camino del Cerro, and is the largest of its kind to be deployed within Pima County, according to a fact sheet provided by county supervisors."
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Arrow missile inventor looks to energize the solar market
Amplify’d from www.jpost.com
National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau (Israel Beiteinu) dedicated the first Israeli concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system to be hooked up to the national grid in Arad on Thursday.
The system was designed by the MST solar energy company, which was founded by Dov Raviv – the father of the Arrow missile system.
Raviv turned his eye toward renewable energy in 2002 by forming Rehovot-based MST. Over the last eight years, he and his team developed a CPV system built on a tracker – a platform that tracks the sun’s path across the sky. The 50KW system has an efficiency rate of 24.5 percent in field conditions, he said during Thursday’s ceremony – higher than regular photovoltaic silicon
solar panels.
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
From blighted to cool green; Low-cost upgrades can cut energy bills
Amplify’d from www.miamiherald.com
Jodie Mekled is looking forward to cheap utility bills this winter.
The retail worker from Sterling Heights, Mich., could pay as little as $40 a month for natural gas thanks to energy-efficient home improvements made through Habitat for Humanity.
The nonprofit group recently completed a rehab on a foreclosed home in Sterling Heights that Mekled will close on and move into this month with her two sons. She was living with her parents when she found out about the city's Neighborhood Stabilization Program and applied.
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The 900-square-foot home has achieved LEED certification, which measures how well a house performs in eight areas including water efficiency, materials selection, indoor environmental quality and innovation. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
It's the first LEED-certified home the Macomb County, Mich., Habitat for Humanity has built.
The home features bamboo flooring on the first floor, spray cellulose to insulate the walls, recycled paper countertops, bamboo cabinets in the kitchen, a solar tube in the kitchen ceiling that reflects light from the sun and moon into the home and low-flow plumbing.
Read more at www.miamiherald.com
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States' Critical Role in Fostering Energy Efficiency Businesses
Amplify’d from www.reuters.com
For businesses to go green, it doesn't just take a smart CEO and savvy business plan. It also takes strong state leadership to ensure that the best incentives, policies, and programs are in place to help businesses improve both the sustainability and profitability of their companies.
Much of what makes a company more sustainable and profitable has to do with smart energy management. Energy is one of the biggest expenses for business owners today, and will only become a greater financial burden as energy prices continue to escalate. The more businesses can do to lower energy use and costs through greater energy efficiency, the better prepared they will be to weather economic storms and thrive and grow.
Today, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy releases its annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard report that ranks all 50 states and Washington, D.C. on their progress toward advancing energy efficiency policies across a wide array of sectors -- from buildings to industry -- that help businesses lower energy use and costs, as well as create a healthy energy efficiency industry.
Read more at www.reuters.com
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Green Technology Leader Suntech Creates Jobs in Ariz. with Its New Solar Manufacturing Facility
Amplify’d from green.tmcnet.com
Goodyear, Ariz. The facility is not only going to boost up the renewable development in the region, it will also create near hundred manufacturing jobs in Ariz.
Through a recent press release, Suntech announced the opening of the said manufacturing plant in Goodyear, Ariz. The new module production facility will initially produce 30MW power annually. The plant will employ more than 75 operators, engineers and professionals by the end of 2010.
Read more at green.tmcnet.com
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
Low-cost upgrades can cut energy bills
Amplify’d from www.freep.com
Jodie Mekled is looking forward to cheap utility bills this winter.
The retail worker from Sterling Heights could pay as little as $40 a month for natural gas thanks to energy-efficient home improvements made through Habitat for Humanity.
The nonprofit group recently completed a rehab on a foreclosed home in Sterling Heights that Mekled will close on and move into this month with her two sons. She was living with her parents when she found out about the city's Neighborhood Stabilization Program and applied.
The 900-square-foot home has achieved LEED certification, which measures how well a house performs in eight areas including water efficiency, materials selection, indoor environmental quality and innovation. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
It's the first LEED-certified home the Macomb County Habitat for Humanity has built.
The home features bamboo flooring on the first floor, spray cellulose to insulate the walls, recycled paper countertops, bamboo cabinets in the kitchen, a solar tube in the kitchen ceiling that reflects light from the sun and moon into the home and low-flow plumbing.
"I love the bathroom. I love my kitchen," said Mekled, 41, who helped retrofit the home through hundreds of volunteer hours. The bathroom features recycled glass tile and porcelain tiles.
Brandon McCullough, field operations manager for Macomb County Habitat for Humanity, said less-expensive energy upgrades are becoming more common. Such improvements include added insulation, rain barrels and compact fluorescent light bulbs.
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Suntech opens solar manufacturing facility in Goodyear
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Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Goodyear on Friday, bringing solar panel assembly to the Valley.
The Wuxi, China-based Suntech (NYSE: STP), one of the largest solar module manufacturers in the world, began producing panels that were greeted by about 200 people at the company’s factory to celebrate the launch.
Shi Zhengrong, the company’s founder, chairman and CEO, said his firm has come a long way since it first began manufacturing panels in 2002, and it looks forward to developing more of a market in the U.S.
“Imagine what we will be able to do in the next eight years as we continue to drive down the cost of solar,” he said.
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The Energy Efficient Path to 100% Renewables
Amplify’d from www.greenbiz.com
One of the Cradle to Cradle principles is to power with 100 percent renewable energy as one means to maximizing an organization's positive environmental, social and economic impacts. Energy use provides one of the clearest examples of the Cradle to Cradle idea of moving beyond the traditional sustainability goal of only reducing negative impacts (eco-efficiency), to creating a wholly positive or beneficial footprint on the planet.
The energy-efficient use of non-renewable energy still saps resources, pollutes the planet and can harm local communities, although they do so more slowly than non-efficient operations. On the other hand, operations designed to be powered by renewable energy create green collar jobs, avoid climate change emissions and foster domestic energy production.
This does not, however, mean that energy efficiency isn't important. In fact, energy efficiency represents a vital path towards becoming renewably powered, as it reduces the amount of energy required to be 100 percent renewable.
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