Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
April 2011
- Gregoire signs bill to phase out coal power
- Another to watch from BridgeWorks: C-Water
- Total pays $2.4 billion for SunPower stake
- U.S. nuclear experts assert plants' safety
- Plan for Hawaii's 'Big Wind' project questioned
- Living Future Institute unveiled
- Evergreen Solar panel shipments plummet
- Student assignment: A green Chevy Malibu
- Wells Fargo expands solar investment with SunEdison
- Sanyo Homes aims to break new ground in Portland
- Floating Power to build wind, wave plants in Oregon
- Local clean energy, not coal exporting, is key to Northwest prosperity
- SunRun enters Oregon's solar market
- Oregon-led effort certifies water-saving grass
- New hotel amenity: Free EV charging
- Online solar-tracking tool launched in Calif.
- Meritage brings net-zero energy home to production
- EV roundup: Leaf and Volt are safe, iMiEV is cheap
- ConsciousWine launches from Ashland
- Slideshow: June Key Delta Center and the Living Building Challenge
- Living buildings take center stage
- BrightSource Energy files for an IPO
- Why buy when you can rent?
- Xzeres broadens reach with Rochester Power Saver buy
- Sustainability in action: Supporting employee projects
- EcoApprentice aims to connect businesses with ideas
- PGE seeks input on power request
- A123 gets electric motorsports deal
- 'Solarize Massachusetts' launches
- Electric vehicles 'pop up' in downtown Portland
- Get ready to say bye-bye to BETC
- Solar Nation prefers Oregon but faces barriers to work here
- Gridflex plans grid-scale power storage in Oregon
- ARPA-E has $130M for new energy technology
- Shall we play a game: Innovating business models
- Wave energy researchers pick Oregon Coast test site
- Vestas lands 58-turbine order from Canada
- Equilibrium Capital hires Tides' Drummond Pike
- Ocean Power Technologies touts $6M Oregon investment
- D.R. Horton bets on micro-house trend
- Brammo launches motorcycle dealership program
- Boeing goes 100 percent renewable in S.C.
- Cape Wind construction may begin in 2011
- Solar Trust nabs DOE $2.1B loan guarantee
- Wilsonville welcomes SoloPower
- St. Helens bottle recycling plant gets $1.2M
- How far off can the Bloom Energy IPO be?
- Google pumps $100M into Shepherds Flat wind farm
- 'Cool Schools' in Earthquake Country
- Cargill backs EOS carbon-market effort
- Portland meets London: A chat with Nicky Gavron
- Facebook opens efficient Prineville data center
- Viridity to supply campus with energy storage system
- SoloPower hopeful over Wilsonville deal
- Safeway, Target tops for sustainable seafood practices
- Naturally Advanced signs agreement with Levis
- Duke Energy plans $44M battery at Texas wind farm
- Zipcar IPO races past expectations to $174M
- Video: Kitzhaber talks energy policy
- BPA pulls back on plan to shut off wind
- Energy performance leads the way
- Kitzhaber airs plan for 10-year energy strategy for Oregon
- Ford deems Portland electric vehicle-ready
- Wellinghoff talks up a smarter energy system
- Washington bill would move state of coal by 2025
- Key DOE loan program likely spared
- Landmark renewable power law signed in California
- SunPower may get $1.2B federal loan guarantee
- Fred Meyer Jewelers lands socially responsible certification
- Quiet UpWind Solutions raises $10M
- Kelley Blue Book names top green cars
- Austin's Building Turbines acquired
- Cleantech VC funding bounces back
- Texans seek better plastic bag bill
- Duke Energy: U.S. must build nuke plants
- BrightSource lands Google as investor in Fed-backed project
- The rating game: Challenges in green certification
- Canvas Dreams gets a piece of the GoDaddy exodus
- GE Solar deal has Oregon origins
- Maryland offshore wind proponents turn to 2012
- NRG unveils electric car charger in Texas
- World Energy plans $5.5M offering to fund acquisitions
- Penn doles out $6.5M in alternative energy grants
- GE to build biggest U.S. solar plant
- Utilities reach settlement on BPA dispute
- Facebook still facing questions about coal-fired energy
- Facebook sharing energy-saving data center tech
- Tesla's CEO Musk: Rocket scientist
- New England tech firms tout sustainability
- Port's Troutdale project wins national brownfield award
- Wine keg trend gets greener
- Oregon electric vehicle mileage charge moves forward
- Can we be the land of the free?
- Portland-area emission reduction on the horizon
- SolarWorld gets an 'A' from toxics coalition
- Anthropologie partners with Oregon group to save cork forests
- Energy Star standards could boost LED sales
- Grape Solar expands Costco partnership
- ReVenture secures financing for waste-to-energy plant
- EnerG2 looks to expand beyond ultracapacitors
- U.K. climate change minister talks green economics
- Fluor to build solar plant for SunPower, Salt River Project
- SolarCity to install solar panels for Sacramento
- 'Top Gear' responds to Tesla suit
- Wilsonville takes up urban renewal plan for SoloPower
- Solar company BrigthSource raises $200 million
- Aerojet developing mobile biodiesel plants
- Hawaii will be test market for electric vehicles
- FedEx joins Obama’s Clean Fleets program
- Waste Management strikes recycling deal with Chicago
- EcoDistricts: good for community, business
- B corps work toward a purpose-driven economy
- No oil in Oregon, but senators oppose drilling
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