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Reinventing the Role of Paper in the Digital World
The following is a guest post by our friends at Opportunity Green (a 3p partner ) – an award-winning sustainability conference featuring global business visionaries, profound innovations, and the technologies and trends accelerating the new green economy. By Gaia Dempsey, Founder & Managing Partner at Demeter Interactive Though many of us have a fondness bordering on [...]
Frito-Lay Opens “Near Net Zero” Plant in Arizona
Frito-Lay reopens what will be a “near net zero” plant. The factory will run of mostly renewable energy, operate significantly with recycled water, and will send almost no waste to the landfill.
Burning Man’s Green Complexion
A week ago, the renowned Burning Man festival raged in the Black Rock desert of Nevada. More than 50,000 people from all over the world gathered as a community and built a city for a week. The prevailing spirit of the event is self-reliance, civic responsibility, creativity and a purposeful absence of commerce. The very [...]
Germany Sets New Renewable Energy Record
While the latest green headlines in the U.S. are mostly depressing with growing signs that the Obama administration will approve the proposed Keystone Pipeline and the bankruptcy of Solyndra, at least we have some good news coming from across the ocean. According to a new report by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries [...]
Denmark’s Roadmap for Fossil Fuel Independence
This post is a condensed version of an article in the August issue of The Solutions Journal, based at the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University. In October 2010, Denmark became the first country to embrace the goal of renouncing fossil fuels by 2050. Based on Denmark’s analysis, other developed nations may be [...]
Renewable Energy 2010: 16% of Global Energy; Nearly 11% in the US
REN21′s “Renewables 2011″ Global Status Report is a remarkable one, particularly in light of the lasting effects of the “Great Recession” and all that took place in 2010. The REN21 report shows that renewable energy growth was strong last year. Renewable resources wound up supplying 16% of global final energy consumption and showed strong growth [...]
Khosla Chides Big Oil on Risk and Biofuels
When a big money entrepreneur criticizes Big Oil for its questionable approach to risk-taking, perhaps it’s time to pay serious attention. Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla took Big Oil to the woodshed this week for taking on expensive and long-odds risks on deepwater drilling rather than embracing the future of biomass energy. Khosla, speaking Monday [...]
Enerkem Localizes Fuel Production Using Landfill Trash
Gas prices are again spiking, which is why it may be the perfect time to look in your trash can. Come again? Yes, what was a joke in Back To The Future is now coming true: Enerkem has perfected taking Municipal Solid Waste (aka landfill trash), along with agricultural and forest product residues, and turning [...]
Biomass Plant Construction Begins at Colby College
A new biomass plant is under construction at Colby College. The plant will replace 1 million gallons of heating fuel with about 22 thousand tons of wood and forest waste. Colby is committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2015, and the building of the biomass plant is in hopes to bring it one step closer [...]
To Say California’s AB32 Kills Jobs Is ‘Bunk!’
Ed Note: We’re reposting Bill Roth’s earlier interview with Marin Energy Anuthority Chair Charles McGlashan because of it’s relevance to the ongling ballot initiative Proposition 23. It was originally posted August 4th. AB32 is California’s pioneering legislation signed by the governor in 2006 that caps greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. I am proud to have [...]
Interview: Michael Rocke of Cool Planet Biofuels Talks Carbon Negative Gasoline
Imagine a technology that can take non-food biomass like corn stalks or wood chips and directly convert it into high octane, competitively priced gasoline. And further, image that this technology also produces a carbon fertilizer that is returned to the soil so that the more gasoline you consume the more you reduce CO2 emissions One [...]
How Marin County Delivers 75% Renewable Energy at Competitive Prices
Marin Energy Authority of California is the first utility in the country to source over 75% of its electricity supply from non-fossil/non-nuclear generation. Further, it delivers this energy to homes and businesses at prices that beat the local utility’s price for electricity sourced principally from nuclear and natural gas powered plants. Charles McGlashan is an [...]
Massachusetts Moves to Tighten Biomass Rules Following Controversial Study
If you ever wondered how, exactly, a burning a pile of wood, AKA biomass energy, could possibly be carbon neutral (as has been long assumed) you’re not the only one. Last week, the state of Massachusetts moved to impose new rules on the state’s biomass industry following release of a controversial study of the carbon [...]
California Solar-Biomass Project Axed
The San Joaquin Solar 1 & 2 Power Plant was a laudable attempt to solve a couple issues: what do you do with a solar energy facility when there is no sun, and how to you tackle the problem of agricultural waste in an area that arguably is the nation’s most important farming region? Concerns from locals, however, led to the project’s cancelation.
Can Green Plants Green Coal Plants?
If you take a bunch of dead trees and grasses and shrubs and bury them underground and wait a couple of hundred million years, you get coal: a highly concentrated energy source which has the unfortunate side effect of releasing a very large proportion of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But what if you simply [...]
The Importance of Being Earnest About Biomass
Metso Corporation is pretty confident in its green cred. The Finnish company calls itself “a global supplier of sustainable technology and services” and in a press visit today the company’s VP of strategic development, Michael Hoven, and communications manager, Sanna Rahikainen, when asked if they considered Metso a green company, said it was. They said they [...]
Warm Glow: Biomass Serves Green Whiskey in Scotland
Leave it to the Scots to find ways to get energy out of whiskey. If you like your whiskey neat or even if you don’t this is pretty neat — Helius Energy Plc and the Combination of Rothes Distillers (CoRD) formed a joint venture known as Helius CoRDe, which will build and operate a biomass [...]
Biofuel and Black Earth: Dynamotive Pioneers Updated Pre-Columbian Technology
Things appear to be looking up for Vancouver’s Dynamotive Energy Systems as a US field trial shows positive results and governments in the US, Australia, along with the UNFCCC, considers recognizing biochar as a means of mitigating and adapting to climate change.
Will Aviation Biofuel Fly?
Even with the attention of the two largest aircraft makers, Boeing and Airbus, aviation biofuel is not exactly on the near-event horizon: Think 2025 before biofuel accounts for even 25 percent of the fuel airlines use.
A Real “Back To The Future” Engine Meets Mark Twain
Do you remember in the film Back To The Future, when the doctor came back with an updated car that could be powered by trash? Well it seems that that’s now not so far fetched, if the makers of the Cyclone Green Revolution steam engine have their way. “Excuse me, steam engine?” I can hear [...]
Manitoba Hydro Targets Industrial Customers To Convert To Biomass Fueled Power
Manitoba Hydro targets 250 of its industrial and agricultural customers to start using biomass as fuel to run their power/heating systems. Customers are urged to undertake feasibility studies into how to use biomass including waste wood, crop residues and livestock manure.
UK Government Offers Cash For Biomass For Heat And Energy Generation
UK farmers can now dump their biomass (waste or non waste in many cases) at powerplants and get handsome cash for switching to growing biomass crops. No interference with food, so that’s good and brilliant schemes, so it seems.
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Webinar: Feb 17Greening Stonyfield Farm: As a consultant with Stonyfield Farm for the past 12 years, Switzer Fellow Tim Greiner will discuss efforts to broaden and deepen sustainability within the company. He will discuss the company's efforts to track its environmental impacts, barriers the company had to overcome.Webinar: Feb 29Product Scorecards for Sustainability: Product scorecards that detail and evaluate environmental and sustainability aspects of products are increasingly adopted by leading companies. This webinar covers the best practices in this area and a case study by Seventh Generation.NY: Mar 19-20Wall Street Green: The longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. The Wall Street Green Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the practitioners and the leaders of tomorrow. Bay Area: Mar 22-23GRI Certified Training: Demand for sustainability experts is growing rapidly as companies look for proven professionals. For companies, GRI trained employees mean faster implementations and better use of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Join our partner ISOS group for this two day session. Early bird discounts apply!SF: Mar 26-28Cleantech Forum San Francisco: The 2012 Cleantech Forum San Francisco will mark the 10th anniversary of Cleantech Forums, the annual gathering of the global clean technology innovation community. Our theme this year is “The Power of Global Partnerships,” an exploration of how strategic relationships are playing an ever more important role in the future of clean technology. For a $300 Discount use code "VIPofTriplePundit " More Info.SF: April 10-12 Navigating the American Carbon World: The must-attend event for professionals in the carbon landscape. Over the past decade, NACW has consistently provided informative content, thoughtful discussions and outstanding opportunities for collaboration.Have your event listed here.
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