Near Maiden, North Carolina Apple is building a huge data center that will, of course, require huge amounts of energy to power the facility. Apple, in its latest environmental report, states that the data center will include the largest “end user-owner, onsite” solar array in the U.S. Or, in less slippery terms, that all the [...]
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Apple’s “Project Dolphin” To Include One of Nation’s Largest Green Energy Facilities
February 22nd, 2012 
Justin Manger Update on Tesla: Still Losing Money But Ramping Up
February 20th, 2012 Justin Manger Now that the Big Three automakers are back on their feet and turning a profit after imploding during the financial crisis (only Ford didn’t take government bailout money), it has to seem harder than ever for a start-up car company to compete in this brutally cut-throat industry. Tesla Motors, however, is not to be dismissed. In [...]
When Big Business Is Good For the Environment
February 18th, 2012 Justin Manger McDonald’s get trashed – and sometimes quite rightly – for its policies towards the environment, workers, and animals as it serves up billions of hamburgers across the world. Recent news, however, shows the company also acknowledges it can make improvements and will listen to voices both inside and outside the company. This time it is [...]
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Tags: Environment, Food 
No Comments »Intel (Again) Leads 2011 Green Power Purchasers List
February 13th, 2012 Justin Manger The EPA announced its annual list of top green power purchasers last month (here is the list from 2010, also with Intel on top). This includes categories for businesses, schools, and government. On the business side Intel takes the top honors while Kohl’s Department Stores slides into the runner-up position. Making a huge jump in the rankings was [...]
The Legacy of Cheap Natural Gas
February 12th, 2012 Eric Wilson What will be the legacy of cheap natural gas? Until recently, natural gas in the United States was 3-4 times as expensive as it is today. With advances in technology, costs have dropped precipitously. Natural gas prices ended the other day at $2.32 per MMBtu. 18 months ago a MMBtu sold for $5.50 on the [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Policy, President Obama, Renewable Energy, Sustainability Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Economy, Fracking, Natural Gas, Shale Gas No Comments »HMSHost Diverts Food Waste at Tampa International Airport
February 8th, 2012 Chris DeArmond At nearly 14 percent, food waste in the U.S. now represents the single largest component in the municipal solid waste stream. In 2010, this amounted to 34 million tons of food, less than 3 percent of which was recovered or recycled. This staggering amount of food waste is driven not only by individual households, but [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Conservation, Green Economy, Local Energy/Food, News, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Biomass, Chris DeArmond, Composting, Environment, Food No Comments »Welcome to the Uniiverse
February 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson Evoking the memory of E.F. Schumacher, the German born economist who wrote Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, a new service by the name of Uniiverse has launched with the goal of serving as a platform for collaborative living. Schumacher’s vision of local economies moves one step further with Uniiverse, which “is an [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Green Economy Tags: Bike Sharing, Collaborative Consumption, Triple Bottom Line, Video No Comments »Honeywell Goes After Nest Labs for Patent Infringement
February 7th, 2012 Justin Manger As we have profiled here, Nest Labs has come up with a clean and classy look for their new energy saving and “auto-learning” thermostat. They will now have to come up with a team of lawyers to defend allegations from Honeywell International that Nest infringes on several (seven to be precise) patents that Honeywell has for [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Green Products, Justin Manger, News, Smart Grid Tags: Energy Conservation, Green Product, Green Technology No Comments »New York City Gets Tidal Energy Project
February 6th, 2012 Justin Manger Verdant Power was granted the first US license for a tidal energy project right on New York City’s doorstep, the East River. While the 1MW project is tiny compared to the over 2,000MW wind farm on the drawing board for Wyoming, it is good to see various renewable technologies being tested around the country. Localization of power sources [...]
“eBay for Rentals” Rentstuff Goes Nationwide
January 30th, 2012 Justin Manger Take a quick look in your closet. Or your attic. Or your garage. If you’re like most Americans, you’ve got tons of “stuff,” a lot of which you use rarely, if at all. It seems like someone, somewhere may be looking for something that you have. It sounds like there may be a trade waiting to [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, Recylcing Tags: Collaborative Consumption No Comments »
