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eBay’s Green Shopping Challenge: Reducing Our Carbon Footprint

blog eBay Green Team eBays Green Shopping Challenge: Reducing Our Carbon FootprinteBay made a significant push this week with its Green Shopping Website, trying to encourage consumers to purchase second-hand items over new ones.  “The greenest product is often the one that already exists,” says the header for eBay’s Green Team challenge. From now until Earth Day, the first 250,000 people to purchase something from the Green Shopping site will each receive an acre of rainforest.

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Investors Optimistic About Clean Tech Sector

blog wind strategies Investors Optimistic About Clean Tech SectorDespite a few quiet murmurs of a new “bubble,” venture capitalists are generally very optimistic about the clean-tech energy and conservation sector, according to data collected through a recent survey from the tax and advisory firm KPMG LLP.

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Obama Touts Homestar Program to Help Homeowners and Job Seekers

blog obama Obama Touts Homestar Program to Help Homeowners and Job SeekersRecently President Obama outlined more details of the new “Homestar” program that he had first mentioned in the State of the Union Address.  The administration sees the program as a way to create jobs by encouraging American families to invest in energy-saving home improvements. The Senate Democratic leadership included a Homestar proposal as part of the jobs agenda released on February 4, 2010, and the Administration will work with Congress to get it passed.

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U.S. Wind Industry Lobbies in Washington for Strong Renewable Energy Policy

blog wind power U.S. Wind Industry Lobbies in Washington for Strong Renewable Energy PolicyThe Clean energy policy is starting to heat up again in the United States, and the American wind industry is aiming to make sure these legislative discussions turn into progressive action.  This week, as the U.S. Senate begins its assessment of the weatherization bill known as Home Star, 120 executives from companies bound to wind power have stormed Capitol Hill.  Their mission: advocate for the passage of national policies which will create jobs, diversify energy supply, and prevent climate change.

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The World’s Greenest Skyscraper Coming Soon to China

blog pearlriver The Worlds Greenest Skyscraper Coming Soon to ChinaThis fall a new skyscraper claiming to be the world’s greenest building will open in Guangzhou, China.  The 71-story, 2.3-million square-foot Pearl River Tower will be the most energy-efficient super-tall building ever built.

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New Jersey Passes Slew of Renewable Energy Laws

blog renewable energy1 New Jersey Passes Slew of Renewable Energy LawsCalifornia and Massachusetts have long been bastions of clean energy. Now you can add New Jersey to the list.  Since the beginning of the year, the New Jersey State Legislature has passed several laws to promote the development of renewable energy sources.

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BMW to Manufacture Electric Vehicles in Germany by 2013

blog bmw BMW to Manufacture Electric Vehicles in Germany by 2013After debuting an electric vehicle (EV) concept car at the Detroit Auto Show, BMW made an even more concrete commitment to developing electric cars, when it decided to use its Leipzig production facility to develop EVs.

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Walmart Plans to Eliminate 20 Million Tons of Emissions from Global Supply Chain

blog walmart 300x214 Walmart Plans to Eliminate 20 Million Tons of Emissions from Global Supply ChainWalmart (NYSE:WMT) recently announced its goal of eliminating 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its global supply chain by the end of 2015.  This represents one and a half times the company’s estimated global carbon footprint growth over the next five years and is the equivalent of taking more than 3.8 million cars off the road for a year.

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Setting the Standard: University of British Columbia Builds North America’s Greenest Building

blog cirs Setting the Standard: University of British Columbia Builds North Americas Greenest BuildingThe University of British Columbia (UBC) is constructing an outrageously sustainable building, which, when completed, will be “greenest” building in North America.  This news is just the latest in a dearth of renewable energy and green announcements and accolades to come from Vancouver.

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American Utilities: Hot for the Smart Grid and Warming to Renewable Energy

blog grid American Utilities: Hot for the Smart Grid and Warming to Renewable EnergyA new survey of American utility companies offers some very revealing information about the U.S. energy industry and renewable energy.  Black & Veatech, a construction and engineering company focused on energy and water infrastructure has published its annual “Strategic Directions in the Electric Utility Industry Survey.”  Their research shows that for the second year in a row capital spending on electric grid infrastructure by utilities has dropped — this has not happened since the days of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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