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SunPower’s High Efficiency Solar Panels Power Winning Teams at the Solar Decathlon Europe

June 28, 2010  — SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) announced that the team of students representing the University of Rosenheim, Germany at the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe has placed second, using high-performance SunPower solar panels to power the home they built for the competition. The school also took top honors in [...]

Chicago Green Events During July 2010

U.S. Green Building Illinois Chapter  (USGBC)
LEED Leaders and Liters: Community Initiatives
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
CTA Building, Chicago
River North Business Association and USGBC – Illinois Chapter’s July Green Business After Hours
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Citizen Bar
Chapter Business Meeting –  Demystifiying Measurement & Verification: The Plan and the Reality
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Location TBD
Going Green and [...]

BOCA RATON, FL – GOING GREEN NETWORKING EVENT

It is everyone’s responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint at home, in business, and for our environment.  It is easier than you think to go green more effectively without changing your lifestyle or your budget! There is a networking event next week not to be missed.  It is for professionals that want to learn more [...]

“Greening of Our Economy: Clean Energy Careers” Webinar, June 24, 2010: 7:30-8:30 pm Eastern

“The Greening of Our Economy: Clean Energy Careers” Webinar and Discussion

Thursday, June 24, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Many of you have already registered but for those of you who haven’t, there is still time to sign up for the upcoming informative, online interactive discussion on careers in clean energy and [...]

BOCA RATON, FL – GOING GREEN NETWORKING EVENT NEXT WEEK

It is everyone’s responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint at home, in business, and for our environment.  It is easier than you think to go green more effectively without changing your lifestyle or your budget! There is a networking event next week not to be missed.  It is for professionals that want to learn more [...]

Cleantech Meeting in Chicago

For some, the term “smart building” might conjure up Hal 9000-like visions of know-it-all smart meters deciding when to turn off your office lights.  But what if we told you even modest efficiency efforts could cut energy consumption in buildings by 30% to 50%, which would amount to $30 billion to $54 [...]

GO GREEN MORE EFFECTIVELY AND SAVE!

It is everyone’s responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint at home, in business, and for our environement.  It is easier than you think to go green more effectively without changing your lifestyle or your budget! There is a networking event next week not to be missed.  It is for professionals that want to learn more [...]

For Earth Day, 7 New Rules to Live By

QT423YZ33XPT  Apr 24, 2010 – John Tierney reports on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in The New York Times.  He has some information from Stewart Brand’s new book, “Whole Earth Discipline,” in which he urges greens to “question convenient fables.”
How on target were the green movement leaders over the last 4 decades?
“1. It’s the [...]

Cleantech Forum XXVII – Paris, France

Cleantech Forum XXVII – Paris, France
April 26-28, 2010

Themed “Towards a new normal: taking resource efficiency to scale in the 2010s,” Cleantech Forum XXVII Paris at Le Méridien Etoile over April 26-28th, 2010 will host 500 clean technology leaders, including investors, corporations, policy-makers, entrepreneurs and CEOs from around Europe – and [...]

Toyota is UAE Energy Winner

Greener New Year’s Eve

Merry Christmas and Ways to Have a Green Christmas

Merry Christmas.
There are several ways to utilize green products at Christmas and beyond. 
LED lights for decorations save a lot of energy, up to 95% less. The remaining bulbs in an LED strand will remain lit when one burns out. LED lights can last 100,000 hours. 
Buy locally made gifts. They come without the added cost of [...]

Siemens Working on Integrating Electric Cars into the Public Power Grid

Dec 22, 2009 – Siemens is hard at work on technologies for integrating electric cars into the public power grid.  The development of methods to rapidly recharge the cars is just one of the company’s contributions to Denmark’s Edison project, which is the first to plug a pool of vehicles into the grid.  Practical testing [...]

Dec 16, 2009 -
Cleantech Forum San Francisco, on February 24-26th , 2010 at The Palace Hotel will help define the maturing cleantech market. The Forum is themed “Taking Cleantech to Scale” to focus on corporate integration of cleantech into growth strategies, new financing for innovation and infrastructure and global government engagement [...]

Copenhagen Meeting – President Barack Obama

Dec 7, 2009 – Are you at the Copenhagen meeting?  If so, please provide your comments here.  USA President Barack Obama will be there as well as leaders from most developed and developing countries of the world.  People are unsure if any major commitments will be made by the largest polluters in the world, or [...]