EPA Proposes Changes to Clean Air Program

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The Environment News Service reports that the Bush Administration has proposed revisions to air regulations that force power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities to install modern air pollution controls when they expand operations.  The administration said the proposal would accelerate investment in cleaner, energy-saving technologies, but environmentalists contend that it would lead to […]

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“The Economist” Arranges for Carbon-Nuetralization of the Production of Upcoming Green Spread

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AdAge.com recently reported on The Economist‘s recent attempt to directly address the impact their own publications have on the environment and the advertising opportunities generated from their efforts.  The process entailed calculating all the carbon dioxide burned from all the traveling, production, printing and distribution of the issue so Carbon Neutral could trap the equivalent

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Sustainable Technology- Fiber-Optic Lighting

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      Michael Kanellos of Cnetnews.com reports that Fiberstars, an Ohio-based company, has come up with a way to combine industrial-grade lamps with fiber-optic technology to create interior lighting systems that consume far less energy than traditional fluorescent or incandescent bulbs.  A single 70-watt metal halide high-intensity discharge lamp from Fiberstars linked to the

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Whole Foods Market Becomes First Fortune 500 Company to Offset 100% of Its Energy Usage

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ROCKY HILL, Conn. The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF), SunEdison and Whole Foods Market today hosted a dedication ceremony to celebrate the unveiling of a 121-kilowatt solar photovoltaic (PV) system installed on the rooftop of the Whole Foods Market Distribution Center located at 400 East Johnson Road in Cheshire, Connecticut. Covering about 10% of the

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WBCSD Chairman Travis Engen wins this year’s SAM/SPG Sustainability Leadership Award

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The 6th annual SAM/SPG Sustainable Leadership Award, acknowledging personal excellence in implementing the principles of sustainability in the corporate sector has been awarded to WBCSD Chairman and retired Alcan President CEO Travis Engen. An international jury of sustainability experts chose Travis Engen for his many years as successful CEO of the Canadian Aluminum producer. Jeremy

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The Economics of Urban Sprawl- What’s Happening to Our Farmland?

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If you are from Colorado and have made the drive along I-25 over the last five years from Denver to Fort Collins or Denver to Colorado Springs, you have undoubtedly noticed it.  The irony of vast corn fields and pastures surrounded by construction sites and tract housing.  Productive pastures once grazed by livestock replaced by

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Vast Oil Pool Tapped in Gulf of Mexico- What Does it Mean for Alternative Energy?

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The AP reports that a trio of oil companies led by Chevron Corp. has tapped a petroleum pool deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico that could boost the nation’s reserves by more than 50 percent.  Tim Haab, Environmental Economics, finds the reports "both promising and troubling.  As most models of resource depletion would predict, rising

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Top Ten Reasons for Businesses to Build Green

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TOP TEN REASONS TO BUILD GREEN: 1.  In the event up-front costs are higher for for high performance green buildings, they can be recovered. 2.  Integrated design lowers ongoing operating costs. 3.  Better buildings equate to better employee productivity. 4.  New technologies enhance health and well being. 5.  Healthier buildings can reduce liability. 6.  Tenants’

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Paonia, Colorado- Offering Green Slopes and Policies

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Nancy Lofholm of The Denver Post offers an interesting article about Paonia, Colorado and how their desire "not to become Vail" has helped them become a hotbed of alternative-energy, blurring some of the traditional divisions between the coal mining crowd and "those who favor straw-bale homes", sharing the common goal of saving energy.  Click here

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Better Solar Power – Scientist Creates Light-harvesting Molecules that Mimic Those in Plants

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Scientists at the University of Sydney in Australia have created molecules that mimic those in plants which harvest light. “A leaf is an amazingly cheap and efficient solar cell,” says Dr Deanna D’Alessandro, a postdoctoral researcher in the Molecular Electronics Group at the University of Sydney. “The best leaves can harvest 30 to 40 percent

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Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

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Launched in 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide. Based on the cooperation of Dow Jones Indexes, STOXX Limited and SAM they provide asset managers with reliable and objective benchmarks to manage sustainability portfolios. Currently 56 DJSI licenses are held by

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How Green Can You Go?

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Growing consumer awareness of the cost and environmental benefits of recycled materials for home-building projects is creating a unique market for current and emerging retailers.  This article from the Denver Post, outlines some of the reasons for this growing demand and the companies, big and small, that are meeting the needs of their "greener" customers. 

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Engineers Race to Steal Nature’s Secrets

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In a recent article in The Guardian, John Vidal highlights a new generation of small green companies emerging with radical but proven ideas to revolutionize engineering.  The article discusses giant wind turbines based on a seed, and a desalination plant that mimics a beetle, identifying the following: An aero-generator turbine, now being laboratory tested before

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Subaru and the Zero-landfill Factory

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Ford’s "Model T" revolutionized output efficiencies in the manufacturing processes of the Industrial Revolution.  Presently, another car company may help to redefine the way we make things, measured with a more encompassing "output" co-efficient.  Subaru of Indiana Automotive’s manufacturing (SIA) plant is recreating the way that cars are manufactured.  The plant is so efficient that

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Sustainability – At the tipping point?

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In the February volume of New Bottom Line Gil Friend, founder, president & CEO of Natural Logic Inc, describes 2005 as the "tipping point for ‘sustainability,’" highlighting several examples of growing momentum in 2005 including: General Electric’s Ecomagination announcement Boeing announced that its new 787 jetliner (coming in 2008) will be 20% more efficient than

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Greenbuild 2006 is coming to Denver

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Everything About Green Building, Under One Roof. Greenbuild is the annual meeting place for the green building industry. For three days in Denver, thousands of green building industry professionals will come together to learn about the latest advancements in green building design, construction, project financing and building management. When: November 15-17, 2006 Where: The Colorado

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