Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
May 2012
- Gallery: 20 Think City EVs land in Portland
- Smart Wire Grid may hold key to power transmission woes
- Pivotal Leaders program announces new class
- Food Alliance launches sustainable nursery certification
- Oregon hangs on to No. 2 for clean energy leadership
- Water interests unite in Northern California
- Report: Pacific tuna tainted by Fukushima radiation
- Lithia drives up its energy efficiency
- Turbine maker ZF Wind adding jobs in Georgia
- Curleigh leaving KEEN footwear for Levi's
- SunEdison closes $65M loan for Arizona solar park
- Solar tariffs could hit Arizona companies
- Portland-based YouTube show links food to farmers
- Nordic Windpower said to be 'in dire straits'
- Coal terminal developer Ambre delays IPO
- Obama visits Iowa TPI Composites plant
- Xcel Energy ends cash solar subsidy
- Brazilian company taps MotoCzysz for electric drive
- Oregon getting $2.1M for brownfields cleanup
- Solar turns on at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West
- NASCAR and the EPA team up on green programs
- China fires back in solar trade war
- Gates, Khosla back Liquid Metal Battery in $15M round
- Sacramento area adds three solar farms
- GDiapers stays on independent path
- The other alternative fuel — propane — making inroads in Oregon
- Lawmakers ask GSA to abandon LEED rating system
- Gov. Perdue wants more nuclear business in N.C.
- Electric race cars tested in Redmond, Wash.
- Portland ranks No. 6 in the nation for city park access
- Gallery: Inside Vestas' new digs
- Time for business to join the biosphere
- SoloPower raises $7.1M more
- Tesla Motors will start delivering Model S sedans in June
- Audit: Schools not getting enough from energy efficiency
- Portland ranks best bike city in America
- Oregon Tilth to merge with California Certified Organic Farmers
- Freshwater Trust builds market for water quality
- Vermont student builds a plastic recycling device
- Gallery: Xzeres gears up for new Oregon wind incentive
- Kitzhaber tapped to lead wind coalition
- Solar, fuel cell microgrid unveiled in New Mexico
- Energy efficiency program funding makes economic sense
- Newsmakers: Robert Frisbee finds high-growth heaven at EPEAT
- Campus Crest, SolarCity team to put panels on dorms
- Save money, make money, reduce emissions: What's not to like?
- RMT to build Colorado wind farm
- EarthTechling report: Student solar, plant pendants and vertical wind turbines
- FedEx Express to add 87 more electric vehicles to fleet
- Ten crowdfunding questions to ask
- Korean delegation turns to Portland for green city expertise
- GDiapers, Keen, New Seasons get kudos for being good
- SolarWorld prevails in anti-dumping case against China
- Intel outlines 2020 sustainability goals
- Pearl Jam, Seattle businesses take on carbon
- Stumptown Coffee to roast greener beans
- Coal plans raise rail questions
- PGE marks 10 years of green power
- Chinook salmon among fisheries deemed 'rebuilt' by NOAA
- Cleantech ladies throw your hands up
- Energy chief Chu calls for PTC extension in Colorado
- Brammo taps Sevcon for drivetrain technology
- Greenskies putting solar on 27 Mass. Walmarts
- International Paper sets sustainability goals
- Pacific Power has cash for community renewable energy projects
- Associations mend fences for Oregon environmental conference
- Food bank, Fred Meyer mark 10-year food partnership
- GSA taps IBM for smart building program
- Silicon Energy adds cheaper line of solar panels
- Lawrence Berkeley lab makes power from viruses
- Simple payback calculation has its limits
- DC-Energy lands affordable housing solar project in San Francisco
- Google-backed offshore project gets green light
- Ascent Solar, Bye Aerospace to partner
- Portland's EV leadership stars in global report
- Gestamp Solar Steel to expand in Arizona
- Nike hosting 'hackathon' for sustainability index
- Applied Materials trims solar business
- EarthTechling report: Hybrid solar ferries, powering up Detroit and more
- Cities convene to learn from Portland on ecodistricts
- Naturally Advanced partners with Lenzing Group
- EnerG2 adds Chevy Volt champion Lutz to board
- Oregon ranks No. 14 on the "locavore" index
- The EV Project offers chargers to Texas workplaces
- Massachusetts awards $418M in low-interest loans for energy projects
- California city launches PACE program for commercial property
- Coal export company promises $400M in economic impact
- Sustainable Alpha: The city of the future is green
- Solar Power lands contract for New Jersey resort installations
- Microsoft targets its own carbon emissions
- Emerging 'crowdfunding' trend could eclipse venture capital
- Columbia Biogas signs on PacifiCorp as power customer
- ClearEdge helps historic Lafayette Hotel save with fuel cells
- Brammo unveils new electric motorcycles
- OSU gets $1.1M from DOE for more nuclear research
- Nest thermostat goes mainstream at Lowe's
- A look at the new farmers' movement
- Coulomb Technologies raises $47.5M
- Gallery: Scenes from the coal export protest
- Robert F. Kennedy warns Oregon about coal
- Commercial solar sales slump in Texas
- Tesoro, EPA in talks on biofuel-credit scam
- Crowd funding rules hold promise, raise questions
- Commercialization grants boost the chances of cleantech startups
- Willamette Superfund cleanup could put $2B up for grabs
- Local investors get creative with new tools
- OpConnect teams with Wright Express for fleet EV charging
- Clean Water Services, Ostara to unveil $4.75M water-treatment plant
- Kitzhaber declines to take sides in Nestle bottle plant protests
- Living buildings a work in progress
- Sustainable agriculture heats up
- Florida becoming a wind hub
- EarthTechling report: singing electric cars, cargo ships with sails and more
- Gallery: 10 sustainable economy leaders to watch
- Pacific Light lands $3M for LED technology
- Duke Energy buys Arizona solar farm
- Charitable bottled water comes to Portland
- Living Future Institute adds accreditation program
- EPA finds six Oregon violations in Q1
- Boston's First Wind breaks ground on Washington wind farm
- Nike report debuts sustainable factory index
- Oregon rules take aim at greenhouse gases, auto industry
- PGE concerned over dust from coal export project
- SolarWorld calls foul on China's five-year solar plan
- A California city goes solar — with Chevron's help
- Gallery: Farm incubator project has new approach to local food
- Report highlights two Oregon energy efficiency programs
- Vestas-built California wind farm switches on
- New York state gets its largest on-farm biogas facility
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. coming to Portland to protest coal
- Straight talk from Oregon's Future Energy Conference
- ZeaChem hires Peter Cheesbrough as CFO
- Northwest Energy Angels provide cash, cachet
- EcoATM nabs $17M, National Science Foundation grant
- Oregon Iron Works to make streetcars for D.C.
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