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Sam’s Club First U.S. Retailer to Install On-Site Micro-Wind Farm – Walmart is Next
Retailers Sam’s Club and parent company Walmart (NYSE:WMT), are adding wind energy to help power two stores in the United States. Sam’s Club 17 micro-wind turbines were recently installed at the Sam’s Club store in sunny Palmdale, California. The Skystream turbines, from Massachusetts-b
Tesla & Toyota: A New Partnership
Toyota recently invested $50 million in Tesla Motors, the electric sports car company. The money will go toward buying an auto plant in Freemont, California. There, they plan to produce 20,000 electric vehicles per year. The cars produced at the plant will by Toyota cars, utilizing Tesla's techno
GM To Invest $893M to Produce New Generation of Fuel Efficient Small Block Truck and Car Engines
General Motors will invest $893 million to produce a new generation of small block truck and car engines which will offer improved fuel efficiency through direct injection and an all-new advanced combustion system design. The new engine family will rely exclusively on aluminum engine blocks, whic
Spud Giant Closes Loop on Sustainability
J.R. Simplot, the nation’s largest potato grower and provider of McDonald’s french fries, has created an internal value-chain loop out of its sustainability practices. Simplot, which has about $4.5 billion in annual sales, takes waste slurry from its phosphate mining operations and pipes it 8
False Solar Panel Advertising
SRS Energy, who have developed a so-called "residential solution" for United Solar (see page 28 of the Investor day presentation), is in full-force marketing offensive. Last week they used a hapless "journalist" to plant a CNET story [cached] containing several false and misleading statements. T
New York City’s First Net Metered Commercial Solar Array is America’s Biggest
Last August, Governor Paterson signed a series of bills to allow commercial net metering installations across New York State. Previously, only residential users were allowed to generate their own electricity from renewable sources and sell it back into the grid. The first such commercial installatio
Reading Between the Lines on Obama’s Inauguration Speech: What Does It Mean for the Green Economy?
George W. Bush sat just a few feet behind Barack Obama during the new President’s Inauguration address, delivered on a frigid yet sunny Washington, D.C. day. The former President appeared warmly dressed but must have felt a distinct chill in the stern repudiation he was publicly receiving, how
Old Underwear Factory to Power 10,000 Homes
An abandoned Fruit of the Loom factory in Rabun Gap, Ga. is about to get a new life as a biomass facility. The $21.5 million project will eventually generate 17MW of energy using some of the equipment left behind. The plant will produce energy from waste from the local forest industry for non-prof
Chinese Eco-Cities
In 2005, green architect William McDonough and British engineering firm Arup separately announced plans to build ambitious eco-cities housing up to 500,000 inhabitants on the mainland. For a few months following these announcements, coverage was enthusiastic (we have written about these cities
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
The following is excerpted from Chapter 7, "Unintended Consequences of Walkable Urbanism" from The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream , by Christopher Leinberger. Copyright © 2007 by Island Press . Excerpted by permission of Island Press. All rights reserved. No part of thi
