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Archive for February, 2009

French Bank Naxitis Sponsors Wall Street Green Trading Summit

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Naxitis, the French Bank active in carbon markets, is sponsoring the New York-based Wall Street Green Trading Summit. This annual event is the longest running environmental finance conference in the US and is now in its 8th year. With ...

LSE Podcasts

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments Off

I'm a podcast junky. I travel a lot, and even when not traveling, I spend a lot of time on public transportation or in cabs or waiting for meetings and when life forces me into little ...

Project Get Ready Aims to Create Electric Vehicle Revolution

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments Off

Creating a well functioning smart grid – cyclically connected to smart vehicles and buildings and houses, as well as personal and public renewable energy systems – will be no small infrastructure feat. Utility providers, technology ...

Island Economies in a Globalized World

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments Off

In Swedish, the word for "island" is a single letter, itself a small island: ö. When one comes upon it in reading, this little "o" with two dots over it appears suddenly and alone in ...

Bright Green, Light Green, Dark Green, Gray: The New Environmental Spectrum

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments Off

People ask me with increasing frequency to explain what I mean by "bright green," and what the differences are between bright green, light green, dark green and so on. I can understand the confusion. The term is ...

Get Schooled in Livable Streets

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Resource - Community | Comments Off

by Rebecca Jacobs Students at PS 87 record car speeds. Last September, The Open Planning Project officially launched Livable Streets Education (LSE) to inspire students, teachers, and families to make the changes they want to see on ...

Increased Cosmopolitan Communications Leads to More Trust, Reduced Nationalism

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments Off

Professor Pippa Norris of Harvard’s Kennedy School, is focused on “Cosmopolitan Communications” for her forthcoming book, titled “Cultural Convergence”. Working with Ronald Inglehart of the World Values Survey, she’s studying the ways that communications impact the ...

Inventor: Gadgets need green design revolution

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

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Headlines from Worldchanging Seattle (2/27/09)

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in About Worldchanging, Green News | Comments Off

The top stories this week from our local blog: Bringing Street Food to Seattle Sidewalk food vendors can have a big impact on the local landscape. Now Seattle's cult favorite mobile kitchen, Skillet, wants to rally support ...

Graphic Series: Earthly Ideas, High Voltage Direct Current

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments Off

This week's cartoon describes high voltage direct current (HVDC), an efficient alternative method for transmitting bulk power. Many people are hopeful that this technology will allow use of renewable energy sources to grow, because it can ...

Prototype SunCat batteries enable solar charging

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

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White House budget boosts Energy Department

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

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Batteries May Soon Begin to Become Obsolete!

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Unconventional energy conversion systems are under development that tap the Zero Point Field, a never previously commercialized, renewable, abundant source of energy. These revolutionary new energy conversion devices are inherently cost-competitive. They can eventually power and make ...

Power Inverter from Clayton Power handles extreme hardness test

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

The test, used in the aerospace industry, ensures that products do not fail – testing over time and also under extreme working conditions - such as vibrations, hot and cold weather conditions, humidity and water, salt mists and so ...

Fronius to exhibit at Solar 2009 – ASES National Solar Conference

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Brighton, MI — Fronius will be participating in the 2009 ASES National Solar Conference as an exhibitor, a Joule sponsor, and will be offering training courses. Solar 2009 will be held at the Buffalo-Niagara Convention Center in Buffalo, ...

Magnum Energy Inc. moves into new 25,000 sq. ft. facilty

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Everett WA-Magnum Energy Inc. has moved into a new 25,000 square foot facility consisiting of space for manufacturing, engineering and offices. The move is in response to the need for more manufacturing and engineering space. The new facility located ...

Navajo Wind Forms Alliance With Vector Industrial Designs

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Navajo Wind Energy Corp., formerly Caliber Energy Inc., has signed an agreement with Australian industrial technology company, Vector Industrial Designs (VID), to participate in the research, development and optimization of various proprietary wind turbine technology designs.

DOE & Israel Update Energy Cooperation Agreement

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

The Eilat-Eilot International Renewable Energy Conference kicked off this week with the launch and update of the United States – Israel Energy Cooperation Act, an international collaboration aimed at creating a renewable energy storage initiative to reduce the world's oil ...

China Sunergy Closes 20-MW Solar Cell Deal

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

China Sunergy Co. Ltd. announced that it has entered into a wafer purchase agreement and a solar cell sales agreement with an unnamed U.S.-based photovoltaic products firm.

House Care To Distribute Suntech Products in Japan

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. announced that it has established an agreement with House Care Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of West Holdings Group, for House Care to become an authorized distributor of Suntech products. The agreement is for 30 megawatts ...