BHP Billiton Chief Marius Kloppers just placed a $20 billion bet on U.S. natural gas. That's pretty risky, even for him.
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Shale Game
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Other Voices: The Emptied Forests of Sarawak
Dot Earth8 Feb 2012 | 7:32 amThe world's richest forest, in plant species, loses its animals to unchecked hunting and surrounding development. -
A Shining Star of Bipartisan Cleantech Support
Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com8 Feb 2012 | 6:55 amAmid all the negative publicity that Solyndra’s failure has brought to the Administration’s cleantech efforts, one cleantech program has received broad bipartisan support: DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-e). In 2012, ARPA-e will receive $275 million, a 53 percent increase from the prior year with -
Aktiv Prefab by Ideabox and IKEA Portland
Jetson Green8 Feb 2012 | 11:25 amIn addition to the Minibox, Oregon-based Ideabox is readying a new prefab in collaboration with IKEA Portland for the Portland Home & Garden Show slotted for February 22-26, 2012. Called “Aktiv,” the home is a new design centered around IKEA products, such as their kitchens, lights, furniture, and other materials. The intent is a cost effective home with great open spaces, soaring vaulted ceilings, and clean modern lines. The exterior features a combination of fiber-cement siding, corrugated metal, and a standing-seam metal roof. The name Aktiv, as you may imagine, is Swedish… -
As Biotech Debate Rages on, More GMOs Get Planted
GreenBiz.com Green and Sustainable Business News8 Feb 2012 | 12:46 pmEven as both sides continue to wage a battle around whether or not genetically modified organisms are good for the planet and its people, new data show that ever-larger swaths of land are being planted in biotech crops.
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Shale Game
8 Feb 2012 | 3:00 pmBHP Billiton Chief Marius Kloppers just placed a $20 billion bet on U.S. natural gas. That's pretty risky, even for him. -
More Hot Air Than Greenhouse Gas At Davos: Emissions Fell During Elite Confab
8 Feb 2012 | 10:53 amThis article appeared in the February 27, 2012 issue of Forbes Magazine. -
Kathy Ireland Sheds The Swimsuit
8 Feb 2012 | 8:58 amHow the supermodel turned supermogul banked $350 million as an entrepreneur. -
Fulsome Fossil Fuels And The 'Peak Oil' Myth
8 Feb 2012 | 8:04 amNot likely. (Photo credit: Viktor Hertz) Here's what we all know to be true: petroleum products are being consumed by an increasingly mobile world faster than foreseeable rises in production. As China puts its billion-and-change population on wheels, demand for oil, even with well-intentioned (but hopelessly inadequate) solar and wind farms -
"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data
7 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pmThe current favorite argument of those who argue that climate changes isn’t happening, or a problem, or worth dealing with, is that global warming has stopped. Therefore (they conclude) scientists must be wrong when they say that climate change is caused by humans, worsening, and ultimately a serious environmental problem
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Other Voices: The Emptied Forests of Sarawak
8 Feb 2012 | 7:32 amThe world's richest forest, in plant species, loses its animals to unchecked hunting and surrounding development. -
Obama Pushes for Investing in Young, Inquiring Minds
7 Feb 2012 | 7:58 amPresident Obama welcomes dozens of young achievers in science and technology to the White House. -
What's a Science Teacher to Do?
6 Feb 2012 | 12:41 pmA look at the issues confronting teachers trying to explore climate science amid heated public debate. -
In Overheated Climate Fight, a Search for Common Ground
4 Feb 2012 | 9:45 amA search for common ground among people deeply split over greenhouse-driven global warming. -
A Shameful Attack on Free Speech by a Group Claiming to Speak for Coal-Dependent Workers
2 Feb 2012 | 8:34 pmA coal-backed group pushes for the cancellation of a lecture by a Pennsylvania climate scientist.
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A Shining Star of Bipartisan Cleantech Support
8 Feb 2012 | 6:55 amAmid all the negative publicity that Solyndra’s failure has brought to the Administration’s cleantech efforts, one cleantech program has received broad bipartisan support: DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-e). In 2012, ARPA-e will receive $275 million, a 53 percent increase from the prior year with -
Assessing the Risks in Solar Project Development
8 Feb 2012 | 6:28 amOver the next four years, 5.7 GW of utility-scale solar PV projects is expected to be built in the U.S. and another 1.3 GW in Canada for a total of 7 GW. Both amounts represent a significantly larger volume than what has been installed to date and is expected to be the dominating type of solar installation for that period of time. Yet, 7 GW only represent a fraction of the total capacity of large-scale solar PV projects initiated and under development in the same period, illustrating that solar project development still is a high-risk undertaking. -
Iowa Considering Feed-in Tariffs
8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amSenators in the heartland state of Iowa have introduced a modest feed-in tariff bill into the state legislature. The move is the first serious effort to introduce a system of feed-in tariffs anywhere in the U.S. during the current legislative session. -
BP: Too Big to Fail?
8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amBP issued its Energy Outlook for 2030, and the coverage and commentary it generated suggests it's an authoritative voice on medium-term energy trends, and as such will have some influence on policy and investment decisions. Leaving aside that one of the world's major fossil fuel incumbents cannot realistically be an impartial arbiter, there was something to like whether your view leans toward the inevitability of renewable energy or necessity of fossil fuels. -
What's Driving North America's Solar PV Market in 2012?
7 Feb 2012 | 12:02 pmThe North American solar photovoltaic (PV) market tacked on nearly another full gigawatt (GW) of installations in 4Q11, echoing a late-year surge seen in other markets (
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Aktiv Prefab by Ideabox and IKEA Portland
8 Feb 2012 | 11:25 amIn addition to the Minibox, Oregon-based Ideabox is readying a new prefab in collaboration with IKEA Portland for the Portland Home & Garden Show slotted for February 22-26, 2012. Called “Aktiv,” the home is a new design centered around IKEA products, such as their kitchens, lights, furniture, and other materials. The intent is a cost effective home with great open spaces, soaring vaulted ceilings, and clean modern lines. The exterior features a combination of fiber-cement siding, corrugated metal, and a standing-seam metal roof. The name Aktiv, as you may imagine, is Swedish… -
The New American Home at IBS 2012
7 Feb 2012 | 9:46 pmThis is The New American Home — a project built every year in conjunction with the NAHB’s International Builders’ Show — in Orlando, Florida. The 4,000 square-foot home collected eight green building certifications, including LEED Platinum and NAHB Emerald, and is expected to consume 52% less energy than a standard home of similar size. Plus, a 4.0 kW solar array provides about 18% of annual energy needs. For the record, TNAH received or qualified for NAHB Emerald, LEED-H Platinum, Energy Star, Indoor airPlus, Florida Green Building Coalition Platinum, Florida… -
Reclaimed Art with Old Doors and Lath
6 Feb 2012 | 10:54 pmReader Randall Otulakowski walks around town in Toronto scavenging for gems thrown away by others in the community. He then takes that stuff to his 747 square-foot home and forms it into furniture and art — like the lath pieces here. Randall told me in an email he’s been getting good feedback on his reclaimed art made with hollow core doors and a lath patchwork. I think the feedback is right on; these are rich and full of statement. If you like what Randall’s making, check out 747 Square Feet. Credits: Randall Otulakowski. Related Articles on JetsonGreen.com:FSC… -
WaterSense Bath Rehab on HouseLogic
6 Feb 2012 | 8:00 amToday, part three in a water-wise bathroom project that I’m blogging is live on HouseLogic. If you’re just catching up, I have an old 1958 bathroom that I’m remodeling while incorporating new WaterSense fixtures. The whole process is shared and documented in partnership with HouseLogic; plus, with each article each week, HouseLogic is offering commenters a chance to win $100 (check their rules). In part three, I talk about installing the toilet, vanity, sink, and lighting fixture, and I also share some tips for shopping online for new materials. Needless to say, I had… -
Energy Data at the Click of a Green Button
6 Feb 2012 | 5:30 amThe Green Button initiative, which gives customers access to their energy consumption data, is gathering steam as three California utilities announced in January they are offering the standardized energy use data to more than 10 million customers. The initial announcement by San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and Pacific Gas & Electric was followed by Glendale Power and Water, and Pepco Holdings, Inc., which said it will provide the streamlined data by summer of 2012 as it continues to deploy smart meters in its service area. Green Button is a voluntary program…
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As Biotech Debate Rages on, More GMOs Get Planted
8 Feb 2012 | 12:46 pmEven as both sides continue to wage a battle around whether or not genetically modified organisms are good for the planet and its people, new data show that ever-larger swaths of land are being planted in biotech crops. -
Hertz Sets Off on 'Living Journey' for Global Sustainability
8 Feb 2012 | 8:19 amThe car rental firm today unveiled a three-pronged platform for strategic growth and sustainability, focused on smart mobility, low-carbon transportation, and community-focused philanthropy. -
Grad Students Design an 'EcoFridge' That Uses 40% Less Energy
8 Feb 2012 | 7:30 amGrads students from UC Berkeley teamed with counterparts in Mexico to design an affordable, energy efficient household refrigerator that also helps curb wasteful habits when using the appliance. -
Autodesk Cuts Data Center Energy Use 60%, Saves $7M
8 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amThe design software giant talked up the results of its aggressive work to consolidate servers, as well as a new version of its cloud-enabled Green Building Studio web service and a success story from its Clean Tech Partnership Program in its latest Sustainability Summit. -
How Do Two Sustainability Departments Become One?
8 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amWhen Molson Coors and SABMiller created the MillerCoors joint venture, one unexpected challenges was how to coordinate two busy sustainability programs, and at the same time bring them to the next level.
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Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard, Version 5: Feb. 2012
7 Feb 2012 | 2:03 pmThe latest edition of the ranking of IT companies' efforts to reduce their own energy use and advocate for clean energy policies finds Google and Cisco in the top spots. -
Greenpeace Puts Google, Cisco, Fujitsu at Top of Green IT Rankings
7 Feb 2012 | 1:03 pmThe fifth version of the advocacy group's Cool IT Leaderboard ranks global computing giants on their efforts to embrace renewable energy as well as push for global clean energy policies. -
What Companies Can Learn From Cities on Climate Change
7 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amCynthia Rosenzweig, a world-renowned urban climate change expert, explains what businesses and cities can do to help each other prepare for the threats posed by the warming planet. -
How Can Business Leaders Accept the Challenges of the New Energy Era?
6 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amA relatlively large number of business leaders are shifting their firms to be ready for the new energy economy, but important questions remain, including how to measure success and how to convince others to join in the quest. -
Using the Arts to Inspire a Sustainable Generation
5 Feb 2012 | 2:00 amThe co-founder of Artists for Humanity talks about training in the arts, and all it entails in terms of community, responsibility and hard work, helps to set them up as future leaders of a more sustainable world.
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Getting to zero
8 Feb 2012 | 8:03 amDuPont’s Building Innovations business unit, maker of Corian and Tyvek, has successfully cut its annual landfill waste stream from 81 million pounds to zero.Dave Walter, America Business Manager and a Six Sigma black belt, led the team that created this result. Walter explains, "DuPont’s Building Innovations moving to zero landfill waste was accomplished through committed people working together effectively enabled by Six Sigma process methodologies."The following outlines six best practices cited by Walter that enabled DuPont's success in achieving zero landfill… -
Experiencing emerging markets inspires innovation
6 Feb 2012 | 8:48 pmIn the 21st century marketplace, innovation and the need to constantly seek out new ideas is critical – as we’ve seen across industry sectors, stagnation is the one of the fastest ways to lose customers and forgo potential profit. This is true in the mature markets for that require either completely new products or adaptation of existing ones to meet emerging consumer demand – whether it’s repackaging products to reach the market at the base of the pyramid or it’s redesigning a battery to withstand power surges and disruptions. Consumers in emerging markets… -
LEEDing your office
6 Feb 2012 | 10:25 amThis article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles hereOnce again, the San Francisco Bay Area LEEDs the way to greener, healthier living, this time in your office. Too many workspaces are sick-making with their sealed windows, release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like formaldehyde, low volumes of air return, and wimpy filters. We’ve all experienced this in airplanes and we’ve all heard about sick-building syndrome. But the bad stuff is invisible so it’s hard to know how healthy a… -
Sustainability in UK retail
3 Feb 2012 | 3:58 pmAfter a conspicuous burst of high profile investment in 2006/7 the so-called “revolution in green consumption” has failed to materialise. The obvious reason is the credit crunch, recession and prolonged downturn. Sustainability in many cases has been redefined as short term survival not long term success.The majority of retailers have improved their sustainability operations to a greater or lesser extent but have not fully exploited this investment with the consumer. M&S stands in front of the pack being the only retailer to coordinate and monetarise its sustainability… -
Online onslaught
3 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pmIf you wonder what happened to the OWS movement and are worried that the protest against the 1% has died, you can relax. The protest is not dead. It just moved from Zuccotti Park to websites like change.org and SumOfUs, where OWSers channel their energy into writing and promoting petitions against corporations that misbehave. It started with petitions against Bank of America, $5 fee on debit cards and Target’s plan to open at midnight on Black Friday, and moved to a protest against Coca Cola’s intervention with a plastic bottle ban in national parks, and now it reached Apple.Yes,…
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GM to sell “Bullfrog Edition” of Chevy Volt, a $198 upgrade offering 2 years of green-certified electricity
5 Feb 2012 | 8:01 pmToronto-based green energy retailer Bullfrog Power is teaming up with General Motors Canada to offer what Bullfrog CEO Tom Heintzman is calling a “Bullfrog Edition” Chevy Volt. This edition of the Volt would be available via all GM dealerships across Canada and would come at a $198 premium. In return, the customer gets a Bullfrog Edition plaque on the vehicle and two years of green (incl. nuke-free) electricity from Bullfrog, based on average customer electricity consumption. “It’s really trying to get people aware of the fact that just because you’re plugging… -
Siemens to acquire Canada’s RuggedCom for $382 million, a 50% premium to Belden’s hostile offer
30 Jan 2012 | 8:54 amGood news for shareholders of Toronto-based RuggedCom, one of the world’s leading makers of ruggedized networking gear for the smart grid. Facing a hostile takeover from St. Louis-based Belden Inc., RuggedCom has found a white knight in Siemens Canada Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of German industrial giant Siemens AG. Siemens has agreed to purchase RuggedCom for $382 million or $33 a share, compared to the $272.4 million or $22 a share offer from Beldon. It represents a 50% premium on a per-share basis and, quite frankly, Siemens is a better fit for RuggedCom and for keeping innovation… -
Boomers get boost as high-end bicycle tour company embraces electric bikes
28 Jan 2012 | 10:55 amMy Clean Break column today takes a look at how Toronto-based Butterfield & Robinson, the high-end travel company, has slowly started to add electric bicycles to its fleet as a way to accommodate aging boomers and people of different fitness levels. Replacing regular bikes with e-bikes on a tour isn’t really an environmental story, for obvious reasons, but this is a positive health story if it means getting more people out and exercising. And in a broader sense, e-bikes could encourage more people to get out of their cars. In that sense there are environmental benefits to this tech. -
U.S. venture capital firm SAIL Venture Partners goes on hunt for Canadian cleantech, plans to establish Canadian-focused fund
27 Jan 2012 | 6:59 amThis is an encouraging sign for the Canadian clean technology sector. SAIL Venture Partners, the early-stage venture arm of SAIL Capital Partners, said today it is partnering up with the Canadian subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. to create a joint venture and fund that would tap into Canadian cleantech opportunities. Specifically, the fund would invest in early stage cleantech companies in Canada that have ready-for-market products. “SAIL’s expansion into Canada represents a tremendous vote of confidence in the quality of Canada’s cleantech sector,” according to… -
Hamilton consortium puts pressure on Ontario government to lift moratorium on offshore wind in the Great Lakes
26 Jan 2012 | 11:50 amFor a year now there has been a moratorium on the development of offshore wind projects in the Great Lakes. The Ontario government issued the ban because it said more study was needed to make sure the projects can be developed safety and responsibly, even though such studies were supposedly already done when the previous moratorium was lifted in January 2008. It’s more than likely that the latest ban was politically motivated, which is why a consortium of companies stretching from Kingston to Niagara Region has high hopes of changing the government’s mind. The consortium, calling…
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Autodesk Cuts Data Center Energy Use 60%, Saves $7M
8 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amThe design software giant talked up the results of its aggressive work to consolidate servers, as well as a new version of its cloud-enabled Green Building Studio web service and a success story from its Clean Tech Partnership Program in its latest Sustainability Summit. -
Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard, Version 5: Feb. 2012
7 Feb 2012 | 2:03 pmThe latest edition of the ranking of IT companies' efforts to reduce their own energy use and advocate for clean energy policies finds Google and Cisco in the top spots. -
Greenpeace Puts Google, Cisco, Fujitsu at Top of Green IT Rankings
7 Feb 2012 | 1:03 pmThe fifth version of the advocacy group's Cool IT Leaderboard ranks global computing giants on their efforts to embrace renewable energy as well as push for global clean energy policies. -
The Bigger Picture Behind Apple's China Problem
7 Feb 2012 | 7:27 amThe major problems uncovered in Apple's -- and the IT industry's -- Chinese supply chain in a series of recent exposes go far beyond Apple to the heart of how companies measure their social and environmental impacts. -
How Can Business Leaders Accept the Challenges of the New Energy Era?
6 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amA relatlively large number of business leaders are shifting their firms to be ready for the new energy economy, but important questions remain, including how to measure success and how to convince others to join in the quest.
