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Blend Game Wal-Mart looks into selling ethanol		01 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Blend Game Wal-Mart looks into selling ethanol As part of its newfound determination to jump on the eco-bandwagon, Wal-Mart is considering selling E85, an ethanol/gasoline blend, at the gas stations it owns and operates. The mega-chain held an alternative-fuels summit for auto-industry reps, oil companies, government officials, and biofuel producers in Washington, D.C., this week. Still, Wal-Mart spokesflack Kev ...
Topics: business, news, renewable energy, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Flush With Success How companies are tapping the benefits of saving water	Joel Makower	25 Apr 2006	Toiling Point
Name this critical and declining natural resource: It is pumped through pipelines and delivered by trucks. It is essential to our daily lives and to every business process and function. Its uneven distribution around the globe leads to vast chasms in countries' development and economies. Wars have been fought over it. Water saved is a dollar earned. Photo: iStockphoto. If you've read the headlin ...
Topics: business, renewable energy (all these topics)

We Hope This Goes Better Than the Whole Dot-Com Thing Internet bigwigs are putting their money on cleantech		19 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
We Hope This Goes Better Than the Whole Dot-Com Thing Internet bigwigs are putting their money on cleantech Some people know a good investment when they see one: Steve "Founder of AOL" Case, Bill "Founder of Microsoft and Stoopid Rich" Gates, and John "Early Investor in Amazon and Google" Doerr. Now they're seeing in green technology what they once saw in the internet, and they're putting thei ...
Topics: business, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

Don't Discount Him An interview with Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott	Amanda Griscom Little	12 Apr 2006	Main Dish
Last week, Wal-Mart joined leading energy executives in their startling call for mandatory caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. The heart of this monolithic retail Grinch grew three sizes that day -- or so it seemed to many environmental Who's. Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott. For many enviros, the name "Wal-Mart" has always triggered a shudder. The world's biggest retailer has been charged with exa ...
Topics: business, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, interview, renewable energy, Wal-Mart, waste (all these topics)

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained Will cleantech turn mercenaries into missionaries?	John Elkington, Mark Lee	11 Apr 2006	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 11 Apr 2006
Topics: business, Full Disclosure, renewable energy (all these topics)

Two Prongs Make a Right New coalition lobbies Big Auto to build plug-in hybrid cars		26 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Two Prongs Make a Right New coalition lobbies Big Auto to build plug-in hybrid cars Plug-In Partners is not, as the name might indicate, a swingers' club. Rather, it's a diverse national campaign -- encompassing cities, electric utilities, national-security hawks, and others -- pushing for plug-in hybrids: gas-electric vehicles with batteries that can be recharged via a re ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Clean Energy: The New Merger Renewable power gets ever more hip with corporate America		13 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Clean Energy: The New Merger Renewable power gets ever more hip with corporate America The Man just can't get enough clean energy. This week, Walgreens and FedEx Kinko's joined Whole Foods as corporate boosters of renewable power. The drugstore chain will install solar-power systems at 96 stores and two distribution centers in California, along with 16 stores in New Jersey. Relatively, it's a drop in the bucket -- Walgreen ...
Topics: business, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

Exhaust in Translation Green cars all the rage at Tokyo Motor Show		21 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Exhaust in Translation Green cars all the rage at Tokyo Motor Show The most buzzworthy attractions this week at the 39th Tokyo Motor Show weren't the biggest or the most powerful but the most eco-friendly. Hoping to dazzle drivers battered by high gas prices, automakers debuted a dizzying array of low-pollution, high fuel-efficiency vehicles -- some electric, some powered by hydrogen fuel cells, some ...
Topics: business, Japan, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Hybrid Anxiety Ford plans to hybridize half its models by 2010		21 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Hybrid Anxiety Ford plans to hybridize half its models by 2010 Reeling from recent profit declines and concerned about stiff competition from Japanese automakers, Ford Motor Co. today announced a big expansion of its hybrid strategy, including plans to offer gas-electric hybrid versions of half its models by 2010. Its current hybrid offerings are limited to SUVs -- the Mercury Mariner and Ford Escape. Ford pl ...
Topics: business, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

All's Well That Ends Wells Investors bullish on clean energy technologies		14 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
All's Well That Ends Wells Investors bullish on clean energy technologies The clean-energy sector is experiencing a post-Katrina bounce. Petroleum stocks are looking less attractive after the storm damaged Gulf Coast oil rigs and refineries, and many investors seem to think pre-Katrina high fossil-fuel prices are here to stay, making renewable-energy investments more attrac ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Price Guys Finish First Toyota plans to cut price of its hybrids		13 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Price Guys Finish First Toyota plans to cut price of its hybrids Aching for a Toyota Prius hybrid, but wilting at the thought of shelling out $3,500 or more over the price of a conventional car? Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe is thinking of you: He's directed the company's engineering chief to halve the price difference between a hybrid and its gasoline-only equivalent. Spea ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news, Prius, renewable energy (all these topics)

Between the Devil and the Deep Green Supercenter Wal-Mart building two experimental green stores		21 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Between the Devil and the Deep Green Supercenter Wal-Mart building two experimental green stores Mega-giganto retailer Wal-Mart is conducting an experiment. No, not the world-domination experiment, a different one: It's constructing two "Supercenters" with green-building features designed to reduce energy and water use. The first, in Texas, will have solar cells embedded in skylights; runoff waste wate ...
Topics: business, news, renewable energy, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

The Offal Truth Promising clean-energy company may have to leave U.S. to succeed		20 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
The Offal Truth Promising clean-energy company may have to leave U.S. to succeed Certain folks take it as quasi-religious doctrine that strong green regulation is bad for economic growth. Tell it to Philadelphia's Changing World Technologies, a burgeoning clean-energy company that may have to leave the U.S. precisely because of lax environmental laws. Every day, CWT turns 270 tons of turkey offal -- the bon ...
Topics: business, news, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

One Tree Shill Sierra Club touts new Ford hybrid SUV		13 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
One Tree Shill Sierra Club touts new Ford hybrid SUV The Sierra Club has long criticized Ford Motor Co. for its environmental offenses, primarily the industry-worst average fuel economy of its fleet. So members may be surprised when Ford's hybrid Mercury Mariner SUV is prominently featured in an upcoming club newsletter and on SierraClub.org. When the green group first offered to promote a Ford ...
Topics: business, news, placemaking, renewable energy, Sierra Club (all these topics)

A View to a Killing Silicon Valley investors putting big bucks into clean-tech start-ups		22 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
A View to a Killing Silicon Valley investors putting big bucks into clean-tech start-ups Silicon Valley's venture capitalists are seeing green in clean energy -- and we're talking gobs of profit, not the whole planet-saving thing. Investor interest in clean-energy tech firms has jumped in the past year, fueled in part by escalating global demand for electricity and the rising price of oil. This month, a consor ...
Topics: business, California, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

Beery, beery good High energy costs don't get in this brewery's way	Katharine Wroth	11 May 2005	Gristmill
Hey, I don't want to get a reputation. But here's more news from the beer-and-rising-energy-costs front: The New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colo., is hopping on alternative energy instead. To wit: The company uses methane captured from its wastewater to help power its facilities, and uses a biodiesel blend in its delivery trucks. No big surprise from an outfit whose employees voted, waaaay back in 1998, to make it the nation's first wind-powered brewer ...
Topics: business, energy, food, greening biz operations, renewable energy (all these topics)

Smoking Frac Hydraulic fracturing raises concerns over water in Western U.S.		15 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Smoking Frac Hydraulic fracturing raises concerns over water in Western U.S. Despite persistent concerns about its effects on groundwater, the practice of hydraulic fracturing (or "fracing") appears likely to receive an exemption from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act in legislation under consideration by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Fracing involves pumping highly pressurized fluids ...
Topics: business, news, renewable energy, West (all these topics)

Starbucks takes fancy to wind energy Coffee giant will buy 5 percent clean power for its U.S. stores	Lisa Hymas	14 Apr 2005	Gristmill
You may hate its coffee, you may hate that it drove your favorite mom-n-pop coffeehouse out of business, you may just hate its bland ubiquity -- but you gotta give Starbucks props for its latest initiative. Today the java giant announced that it will buy enough wind energy to meet 5 percent of electricity needs at its North American stores. From the company's press release (not yet up online, the slackers): 'Starbucks is mindful of the long-term implications that clima ...
Topics: business, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Six Percent Under Canadian businesses find boon in Kyoto		14 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Six Percent Under Canadian businesses find boon in Kyoto Canadian renewable-energy companies are anxiously awaiting Feb. 16. That's the day the Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, and with Canada's target of a 6 percent cut in emissions from 1990 levels by 2010, companies selling green, low-or-no-emissions technology are expecting to see quite a bit of their own green. "What's happening -- which is a very pivo ...
Topics: business, Canada, news, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Price Is Finally Right High oil prices raise interest in renewables, and this time it may stick		27 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Price Is Finally Right High oil prices raise interest in renewables, and this time it may stick Whenever the price of oil spikes, interest in renewable energy spikes along with it -- but despite the perpetual hopes of advocates, interest recedes as prices go back down. This time, though, as oil tops $55 a barrel, it may be different. Really. For one thing, although most analysts agree that th ...
Topics: business, energy, oil, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

It's All About the Benjamins Neglect of clean energy hurts economy as well as environment		25 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
It's All About the Benjamins Neglect of clean energy hurts economy as well as environment The lack of aggressive clean-energy policies at the federal level is taking its toll on the U.S. economy. As recently as a decade ago, U.S. companies claimed 50 percent of the market for solar photovoltaic panels, but now that number is down to 10 percent, with Japan and Europe dominating the world market. Likewise, Germany ...
Topics: business, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

The White Man's Halliburton White House favoring Halliburton over clean water		14 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The White Man's Halliburton White House favoring Halliburton over clean water OK, you might want to sit down, because we've got a real shocker here: The Bush administration, headed by two former oil executives, one of whom was the CEO of Halliburton, from which he still receives payments, may be pulling strings to help shield the company against environmental regulation. The issue in question is " ...
Topics: business, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Gambler's Dilemma Investing in renewable energy can pose ethical dilemmas		20 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Gambler's Dilemma Investing in renewable energy can pose ethical dilemmas Over the past two years, the value of fossil-fuel companies has soared while the worldwide stock-market value of renewable-energy companies has declined from $13 billion to $10.7 billion. This, despite ever-renewing hope that a major energy transition will spark a boom in the renewables arena. Many Wall Street investors are reluctant to go ...
Topics: business, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Up Against the Wall Street Wall Street Remains Hesitant on Renewable Energy		24 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Up Against the Wall Street Wall Street Remains Hesitant on Renewable Energy It's a familiar refrain: Wall Street investors, we are told, are not yet sold on renewable energy. They worry that the technologies are not mature, that massive upfront infrastructure costs are too high a barrier, that despite rosy predictions from socially responsible investors, the price gap between oil and gas stocks and renewable energy stocks is no ...
Topics: business, renewable energy (all these topics)

Beyond a Shadow of a Drought Report Warns Businesses to Heed Water Shortages		23 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Beyond a Shadow of a Drought Report Warns Businesses to Heed Water Shortages A new report warns that businesses should start preparing for severe water shortages, and warning their shareholders of the risk such shortages pose to their operations. The report -- from independent California-based think tank Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security -- focused on businesses that depend on high-volume wa ...
Topics: business, renewable energy (all these topics)

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