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Newsweek’s 20 Least Green Companies in America
As reviewed in the Daily Beast in 2011, Newsweek ranked the most environmentally unfriendly companies based on ecological impact and corporate management. The companies with the lowest scores in Newsweek’s Green Rankings are in the energy, food and beverage, materials, and utilities sectors. There are even a few financial services companies at the very [...]
Top 10 American Cities Ready for Electric Vehicles
The likelihood that your town is electric vehicle-friendly depends on many factors. First of all, it helps if you live in one of the areas where the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf were first issued. Another boost comes if you live in one of the 25 cities selected for the EV Project, a U.S. Department [...]
On-Site Solar Power From ZeroBase
ZeroBase Energy builds a portable, small-scale solar-powered energy hub that offers analternative to diesel generators for a variety of applications andenvironments. Henry Gentenaar, the co-founder and CMO of ZeroBase, along with hispartner Zach Lyman, the CTO, have spent some time out of the U.S. withlittle access to power, diesel or otherwise, and were inspired to [...]
New Generation Energy Launches Renewable Energy Microfinance Site
Nonprofit New Generation Energy (NGE) has launched its Green Energy Project Microfunding site. New Generation Energy’s microfunding site is similar to other microfinancesites, but support is in the form of a donation rather than a loan, andemphasis is placed on project metrics such as energy savings andgreenhouse gas emissions reduction. Any U.S.-based nonprofitorganization may apply [...]
RUBENIUS Investing $4 Billion In Energy-Storage Site In Mexico
RUBENIUS, an energy services company based in the United Arab Emirates,says it intends to build an energy-storage facility based onsodium-sulfur battery technology on a 345-acre site the company recently purchased in Baja California, Mexico. The cost of the facility isestimated to exceed $4 billion. The company says it will offerthe storage space, which is intended [...]
5 Ways to Prepare for a Solar Site Evaluation
You like the idea of generating clean, green solar energy. You’ve heard the price of solar components have gone down, the price of electricity keeps going up, that solar incentives are at its highest, and you’re sick of our country’s dependence on foreign fossil fuels. Consequently, you decide to contact a few solar installers in [...]
Aerojet, Solar Power, SMUD complete 6 MW solar installation at Aerojet’s Sacramento site
Aerojet, a GenCorp company, Solar Power Inc. and SMUD announced thatthe companies have completed the 2.4 megawatts (MW) expansion of theexisting 3.6 MW solar system at Aerojet’s Sacramento facility. The site is located within the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and has now increased its capacity to 6MW, making it the largestsingle-site industrial photovoltaic solar [...]
Rio+20: The Aftermath
Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, has come and gone. The global environmental community certainly had high hopes for this event, described as the biggest UN conference ever. With such outsized expectations, some people were bound to be disappointed… and in this case, a great many people felt let down by the conference. [...]