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The Four Trillion Dollar Plan Google unveils plan to move U.S. off fossil fuels by 2030		02 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 10:30 AM on 02 Oct 2008 Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the search giant, has unveiled a plan to move the U.S. to a clean-energy future. The vision: In 2030, electricity will be generated not from coal or oil but from wind, solar, and geothermal power. Energy demand will be two-thirds what it is now, thanks to stringent energy-efficiency measures. Ninety percent of new vehicle sales will be plu ...
Topics: electricity, electricity grid, energy, energy efficiency, geothermal power, greenish companies, news, renewable energy, solar thermal power, tech, wind power (all these topics)

Bar None Clif Bar's husband-and-wife CEO team talk about staying independent in a Big Organic world	Bonnie Azab Powell	25 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
Kit Crawford and Gary Erickson. Photo: Bart Nagel Walk into Clif Bar's Berkeley headquarters, and you might think you've entered greenie-nonprofit world: multiple recycling stations, cruiser bikes kept for employees' lunchtime use, and a fridge that serves as a pickup point for a local farm's community-supported agriculture program. Vending machines peddle Amy's O ...
Topics: business, food, green living, green products, greenish companies, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Give 'Em a Hand Wal-Mart will slice use of plastic bags		25 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 12:10 PM on 25 Sep 2008 Wal-Mart aims to cut plastic-bag waste in its global operations by an average 33 percent over the next five years, the retail behemoth announced Thursday at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. And if you ever doubted that Wal-Mart is big, consider this: The move is expected to eliminate some 9 billion plastic bags each year, equating to more than 135 million pounds of trash by 2013. Wal-Mar ...
Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, progress, shopping, Wal-Mart, waste (all these topics)

Standard & Poor Form U.S. biz waiting for regulation before cutting emissions, report shows		23 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 1:32 PM on 23 Sep 2008 Only about one-third of leading U.S. companies have set targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, compared to 74 percent of global corporations, says the sixth annual report from the Carbon Disclosure Project. CDP, an influential initiative backed by 385 institutional investors, received input from 64 percent of the Standard & Poor's 500 U.S. companies (a jump u ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenish companies, investing, news, regulation (all these topics)

Reaching the Summit Student activist gets Phoenix buzzing with green biz expo	Amy Linn	16 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
Chris Samila Age: 23 School: Arizona State University Sometimes people do things because they don't realize they can't. If this makes no sense to you, you haven't met Chris Samila, a (permanent, as he jokingly puts it) senior at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he had some epiphanies, founded a business (Green Summit Inc.), and somehow managed to pull off a wildly successful green busi ...
Topics: business, campus activism, education, green living, greenish companies (all these topics)

Don't Shoot the Messenger New HP laptop packaged in messenger bag instead of box		03 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 12:03 PM on 03 Sep 2008 Don't take Grandma to Wal-Mart: the big-box store's new Hewlett-Packard laptop "will be displayed on shelves wearing only the HP Protect Messenger Bag." Scandalous! But actually, there's no need to avert your eyes: the HP Pavilion dv6929 is served up in a recycled, reusable messenger bag instead of a box, cutting cardboard and plastic packaging by 97 percent. Thinking outs ...
Topics: business, green living, green products, greening biz operations, greenish companies, innovation, news, shopping, tech, Wal-Mart, waste (all these topics)

Full Steam Ahead Google.org invests in geothermal energy		19 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:58 AM on 19 Aug 2008 Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the search giant, has announced a $10.25 million investment in geothermal energy technology. The money will back two start-up companies that specialize in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), the process of pumping water underground to crack hot rocks and use the resulting steam to power a turbine and create electricity. "EGS could be the 'killer app' of the energy w ...
Topics: business, energy, geothermal power, greenish companies, investing, news (all these topics)

Post-Carbon County Clean energy comes to the coalfields	Josh Dorner	13 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The name says it all. Carbon County, Pennsylvania is a county of 58,000 located in the heart of the Keystone State's famed anthracite coalfields. The county was famous not just for its coal, but also the notorious Molly Maguires that exemplified the kind of organized violence between workers and bosses that marked 19th century American industrialism. Pennsylvania is also the state that launched the petroleum industry, with the sinking of the Drake Well in Titusville ( ...
Topics: business, coal, greenish companies, mining, renewable energy, video, wind power (all these topics)

The Swede Hereafter IKEA invests in cleantech, may soon stock solar panels		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:43 PM on 08 Aug 2008 Heading to IKEA for some meatballs and easy-to-assemble furniture? You may soon be able to pick up solar panels as well. The Swedish manufacturer plans to invest some $75 million in a handful of cleantech startups, focusing on the areas of solar energy, lighting, sustainable materials, energy efficiency, and water conservation. Ultimately, IKEA has a goal of stocking its shelves with prod ...
Topics: business, energy, energy at home, green living, green products, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, renewable energy, shopping, Sweden (all these topics)

Dell and Good Dell Inc. claims carbon neutrality		06 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 06 Aug 2008 Dell Computer's worldwide business operations are now carbon neutral, the company announced Wednesday. True carbon neutrality is, of course, a chimera for a giant IT company; notes business analyst Clive Longbottom, "You have to question whether they have taken all their workers' commuting into consideration and the materials in making a computer, going all the way back to zinc mining." Perhaps not, but ...
Topics: business, carbon neutral, climate, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, tech (all these topics)

Whole in the Middle Whole Foods tries to shake its elitist reputation		04 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 4:11 PM on 04 Aug 2008 Whole Foods Market, with its gleaming displays of organic produce, antibiotic-free meat, and vegan baked goods, has long branded itself as a high-quality grocery retailer -- thus earning the nickname Whole Paycheck and a reputation for elitism. But with the economy sagging -- bringing with it, according to some analysts, consumer interest in organic food -- Whole Foods is aiming to tout itself ...
Topics: advertising, business, economy, food, greenish companies, news, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Retire your carbon, offset your guilt Carbon Retirement sees opportunity in European allowances	Joseph Romm	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Carbon Retirement -- you read it here first (or maybe second). I don't normally endorse individual companies. But I have long thought European allowances were the best alternative to offsets and am delighted someone has made a business out of it. The business opportunity is clear -- offsets suck. At a policy level, they can destroy the environmental value of climate legislation. At a personal level, lots of vendors are selling very dubious offsets, includ ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, greenish companies (all these topics)

Just Beyond the Parking Lot Wal-Mart gobbles up local produce		02 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:55 AM on 02 Jul 2008 You thought you took home a haul at the farmers market last week, but you've got nothin' on Wal-Mart. The big-box retailer has become the nation's largest buyer of local produce, planning to purchase and sell $400 million worth of locally grown fruits and veggies this year. Wal-Mart says it works with "hundreds" of individual farmers, and has 50 percent more partnerships with local growers t ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, local food, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Home Depot Improvement Home Depot will collect CFLs for recycling		24 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:10 AM on 24 Jun 2008 Home Depot announced Tuesday that it will collect compact fluorescent light bulbs and send them off to be recycled. The home-improvement behemoth hopes the new program will keep the bulbs, which contain a small amount of mercury, out of household trash and recycling bins. IKEA also collects CFLs for recycling but doesn't have the market saturation of Home Depot; more than three-quarters of U.S. ho ...
Topics: business, energy efficiency, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, mercury, news, recycling (all these topics)

Sustainable economy 101 Lessons from Europe and Japan	Jon Rynn	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The following article appeared in Foreign Policy in Focus, and was reposted at commondreams.org. When New York City wanted to make the biggest purchase of subway cars in U.S. history in the late 1990s -- more than $3 billion worth -- the only companies that were able to bid on the contract were foreign. The same problem applies to high-speed rail today: Only European or Japanese companies can build any of the proposed rail networks in the United States. The U.S. has als ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, greenish companies, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Entreprenews you can use: Sungevity 'Dell of solar' seeks to make it cheap and user-friendly to get rooftop PV	David Roberts	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Today, a company called Sungevity announced the availability of what they're calling the cheapest solar system in the world: a rooftop solar panel system, fully installed, for $2,000. That's as much as I paid for my computer. For that price, the average home will save $21,000 in electricity over 25 years -- a 45 percent return on investment. From a simple web interface, customers can plug in their address and Sungevity will use satellite and aerial imagery to asse ...
Topics: business, energy, greenish companies, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Entreprenews you can use: eSolar First deal inked for maker of modular, utility-scale solar thermal power plants	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In the transition to a clean, green economy, one milestone promises to be the most symbolically powerful. It's the one adopted as an official target by Google: renewable energy cheaper than coal, or RE<C. When it announced its campaign, Google also announced the recipients of its initial investments. One was eSolar, a Pasadena, Calif.-based company spun off from business incubator Idealab. "Our view of what it takes to make solar power viable and a widespread ...
Topics: business, energy, greenish companies, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Finding common ground in green Sierra Club and Clorox celebrate their partnership	Guest author	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, and Don Knauss, chair and CEO of the Clorox Company. ----- This year, Earth Day was bigger than ever, which prompted some hand-wringing over whether too many people were jumping on the green bandwagon. Wait a minute: Earth Day, too big? Didn't we want everyone on this bandwagon? Sustainability is a challenge we all face; our response to it could well define the 21st century. If ...
Topics: business, green cleaning, greenish companies, greenwashing, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Algae Whiz Sapphire Energy hopes to soon power your car with algae		29 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:16 AM on 29 May 2008 Sapphire Energy says it has successfully turned algae into biofuel, raising hopes that a viable oil alternative could be produced without need for agricultural land. The indeed-sapphire-colored fuel produced by the year-old company is coaxed from algae, sunlight, non-potable salt water, and carbon dioxide. Sapphire says its fuel is equivalent to conventional crude in both chemical makeup and pric ...
Topics: biofuels, business, energy, greenish companies, news, progress (all these topics)

Plastic makes a comeback Recycled plastic products gain ground	Tia Ghose	22 May 2008	Gristmill
The New York Times has an interesting article up about recycled plastic products. They're profiling a company called Recycline, which makes those bright green recycled plastic cutting boards, strawberry red colanders, and even toothbrushes. According to the article: Recycline's products, sold under the Preserve brand, make new products out of things that would otherwise be likely to end up in landfills. The company uses mostly recycled polypropylene, much of it from ...
Topics: innovation, greenish companies, recycling, green living (all these topics)

Recycled Energy on NPR Castens implement Phase II of global domination plan	David Roberts	22 May 2008	Gristmill
On my morning commute, I always listen to music. Maybe two or three times in the last couple of years, I've listened to NPR instead, but it's rare. This morning, though, on a whim, I flipped over to hear if there was any primary news. And what is literally the very first thing I hear? "One Chicago entrepreneur thinks this waste energy can be captured to reduce costs and lower greenhouse gases." Hey, that sounds familiar! Yup, it's Tom Casten, father of our ...
Topics: business, energy, energy efficiency, greenish companies (all these topics)

Ray of light Duke Energy goes (a tiny bit) solar	David Roberts	22 May 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday, Duke Energy announced that it will buy the full output of the country's largest PV solar farm, to be built by Sun Edison in 2009, coming online in late 2010 (all modules complete by 2011). According to Duke, the plant will cover between 100-300 acres in an area that enjoys about 60 percent sunny or partly sunny days, and will produce about 16 MW, with a capacity factor of around 20 percent, which translates to around 27 GWh/year in 2011. Sun Edison will b ...
Topics: business, energy, greenish companies, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Cruisin' Altitude Airline slows down to reduce emissions		20 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:12 AM on 20 May 2008 Scandinavian airline SAS has found a viable way to cut down on greenhouse-gas emissions and fuel costs: fly slower. The airline has been testing slower speeds since early 2006, and says it has saved some $12 million in fuel costs since then. And have no fear about missing your connection; hitting the brakes adds mere minutes to travel time. SAS hopes that implementing the slowdown strategy throughout its f ...
Topics: air travel, business, climate, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news (all these topics)

For Whom the Dell Toils Chastised by bloggers, Dell aims to cut down on waste		09 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:33 PM on 09 May 2008 To paraphrase Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of loud, critical bloggers can change Dell's packaging M.O." OK, that's a bit of a stretch -- and we won't go so far as to say "Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." But photos published on the internet during Earth Week of a tiny flash drive arriving to a customer in a giant box provoked enough outc ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, progress, tech, waste (all these topics)

Be Like Nike Big biz ranked on greenness		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:47 PM on 07 May 2008 Takeaways from a new ranking of eco-friendly practices in big biz: Consumer companies are getting greener, but there's plenty of ground to gain. In its second annual scorecard, nonprofit Climate Counts ranked 56 companies on their measurement, reduction, and disclosure of greenhouse gases. Eighty-four percent of the companies scored higher this year than they did in 2007, but the average score was still only 40 out of a p ...
Topics: business, climate, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, shopping (all these topics)

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