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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)

The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble A $3 billion, 1,000-mile pipeline -- slated to be pumping oil from the newly opened Caspian oilfields through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey to the world market by April 2005 -- has run into a whole mess of trouble. Environmenta ...
Topics: Azerbaijan, business, energy, food and agriculture, Georgia, globalization, mining and drilling, population, renewable energy, Turkey, wildlife (all these topics)

Houston, We Have a Solution Supporters Claim $300 Billion Energy Plan Would Create 3.3 Million Jobs		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Houston, We Have a Solution Supporters Claim $300 Billion Energy Plan Would Create 3.3 Million Jobs A coalition called the Apollo Alliance released a report on Wednesday proposing and outlining a 10-year, $300 billion investment in alternative energy sources, which it claimed would create 3.3 million jobs and more than pay for it ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, elections, energy, nuclear power, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Super Markets Vijay Vaitheeswaran's Power to the People makes the free-market case for clean energy	Michelle Nijhuis	08 Jan 2004	Arts and Minds
Just before Thanksgiving, Senate Democrats (with the aid of a few Republicans) stymied the massive national energy bill, guaranteeing that debate on the measure would drag into an election year -- and significantly reducing its chance of passing. The setback surprised some observers because the bill, which currently weighs in at just under 1,200 pages, was carefully ...
Topics: business, renewable energy (all these topics)

Baby, We Use Corn to Run House and Senate Reach Agreement Over Ethanol in Energy Bill		06 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Baby, We Use Corn to Run House and Senate Reach Agreement Over Ethanol in Energy Bill Clearing one of the last major hurdles on the way to a final energy bill, negotiators from the House and Senate agreed yesterday on most parts of a plan to almost double the use of ethanol by 2012 and provide a new tax credit for diesel fuels that are blended with soybeans or other farm p ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, Midwest, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

A Nice Piece of Tailpipe New Low-Polluting Cars to Hit U.S. Showrooms Next Month		16 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
A Nice Piece of Tailpipe New Low-Polluting Cars to Hit U.S. Showrooms Next Month There are low-emission vehicles (LEVs), ultra-low-emission vehicles (ULEVs), super-ultra-low-emission vehicles (SULEVs), and the holy grail of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). As if the clean-car world weren't baffling enough, now there's a new acronym to add to this alphabet soup -- partial zero-em ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State Texas is probably not the first place that comes to mind when the topic turns to clean energy -- but the land of fossil fuels is looking to become a leader in renewable power by investing heavily in wind energy. The state is already the second-largest wind-energy producer in the country, trailing only California. In the last three years, Texas h ...
Topics: business, energy, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

A Declaration of Energy Independence New clean-energy coalitions talk up national security and the economy	Amanda Griscom	30 Jun 2003	Powers That Be
Two ambitious clean-energy coalitions made headlines this month, sweeping out from under the rug vital and far-reaching environmental issues that the Bush administration has steadfastly ignored. The Energy Future Coalition, boasting endorsements from heavies on both sides of the party line as well as from high-profile industry and environmental interests, calle ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, environmental non-government organizations, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

The Anti-Pepsi Generation		23 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Anti-Pepsi Generation Leaders of two rural communities in Kerala, a state in southwestern India, are going head-to-head with Coca-Cola and Pepsi, accusing the companies' local bottling plants of depleting groundwater and triggering shortages. One village government revoked the water-use permit of a Pepsi plant last week, and another village denied a license renewal to a Coke plant last month, though its ...
Topics: business, green living, India, renewable energy (all these topics)

Hawkeyes on the Prize		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Hawkeyes on the Prize Iowa will soon be home to the world's largest land-based wind farm if MidAmerican Energy Company has its way. The power company plans to erect between 180 and 200 turbines capable of generating 310 megawatts of electricity and powering some 85,000 homes. If approved by the Iowa Public Utilities Board and state lawmakers, the $323 million project would be completed in 2006 and wou ...
Topics: business, energy, Iowa, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Arkansas of the Covenant		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Arkansas of the Covenant Arkansas is poised to consider an innovative plan to create an "alternative fuels" tax on electricity and gas users in the state. Under the plan, which state Rep. Herschel Cleveland (D) said yesterday that he would introduce to the state assembly early next year, residents would be charged a 25-cent tax on each of their monthly electric and gas bills, while commercial and i ...
Topics: Arkansas, business, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Put This in Your Pipeline and Smoke It Domestic oil and gas is not the ticket to U.S. energy security	Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins	20 Nov 2001	Soapbox
America's fragile domestic infrastructure threatens her energy security at least as much as dependence on oil from the Middle East. Replacing oil from that region with even more vulnerable domestic systems would therefore decrease energy security. Stranger than science fiction. Extraordinarily concentrated energy flows invite and reward devastatin ...
Topics: Alaska, Amory Lovins, business, energy, Middle East, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Celling Like Hotcakes		21 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Celling Like Hotcakes Canadian company Ballard Power Systems announced yesterday that it had signed a three-year, $22 million deal to provide Ford with fuel cells for a line of vehicles the automaker hopes to launch by 2004. Ballard is providing fuel-cell technology to DaimlerChrysler, Honda, Nissan, and Volkswagen, among others. General Motors expects to have a fuel cell-powe ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

When Is a Caribou an Albatross? The Arctic Refuge could become Bush's gays-in-the-military	David Helvarg	09 Mar 2001	Soapbox
California's energy crisis has become a national Rorschach test, saying more about the viewer than about the ink blot. President Bush is a special case: He looks at the deregulation crisis and sees the need to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou-hoo-hoo. Photo: USFWS. Of course, given the number of oil and gas industry veterans in the top ranks of ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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