New US Nuclear Plants Face Long Delays, $800 Million Budget Overrun
The first plants approved in 30 years face massive cost overruns and probable delays.
US Lags, UK Leads In Global Energy Efficiency Ranking
The UK leads the top 12 world economies, the US comes in 9th, but there's lots of room for all to improve.
British Columbia's Carbon Tax Lowers Income Tax for All
BC is using a carbon tax to reduce taxes for individuals and businesses, in addition to spurring cleantech investment and lowering emissions.
Ailing Winery Transformed Into the Greenest in the US
In just eight years, Tim Thornhill transformed the oldest winery in the US – with degraded land and polluted water – to the model of sustainable practices it is today. by Laura Fraser When Tim Thornhill moved to a ranch in the hills near Ukiah, California, in 2002, he didn’t plan to become a vintner. The former landscape contractor — whose voice still carries the soft twang of his Houston upbringing — had relocated with a single goal in mind: to build a "paradise" for his family. Thornhill had started his landscape business back in Texas with little more than a wheelbarrow and a pickup truck, and then moved to Orlando, Florida, where he spent more than 10 years working on Disney theme parks and resort hotels. But within two years of settling in Mendocino County, Thornhill and his brother, Tom, began eyeing a nearby parcel of land that had come up for sale. The Parducci winery, the oldest in the county, was an anchor of local viniculture. But the property itself had seen better days. The regular application of petroleum-based pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides had distressed the vines. Wastewater polluted with oxygen-depleting wine sugars flowed into a cabernet-colored pond […]
Hospital of the Future Opens in San Diego
The green design emphasis is daylighting, extensive gardens and a large green roof.
In An Unusual Move, Scientists Take to the Streets to Protest Canada's Environmental Cuts
Harper's anti-science, anti-environmental agenda is designed to make it easy to fully exploit tar sands oil.
$282 Million Fund Launches Dedicated to US Solar Projects
Capital Dynamics plans to invest in $500 million of solar projects across the US.
Apple Admits Mistake in Leaving EPEAT, Greenpeace Ratings Rise
Apple rejoined EPEAT after receiving lots of feedback from customers, and Greenpeace gave it higher grades in its new analysis of Apple's energy sources.
GE Makes Electric Vehicle Charging Easy with Mobile App
PayPal won an exclusive arrangment where EV drivers can pay for charging with a mobile phone app.
Navy Proceeds With Biofuels Plans, Despite Attempts to Block It In Congress
Next week, the Navy will show off its Great, Green Fleet even though the House and Senate Committee want the use of biofuels stopped.
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