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*News and Events FedEx Introduces New Hybrid Electric Delivery Vehicles Three GM SUVs to Feature “Displacement on Demand” in 2005 Students on Cross-Country Trip in Vegetable-Oil-Fueled Bus St. Paul Cogeneration Starts Up a 25-MW Wood-Fired CHP Plant DynaMotive to Build Several BioOil Production Facilities POWER-GEN to Launch Renewable Energy Conference with ACRE*Site NewsUtah Wind*Energy Connections IEA Launches Database of Renewable Energy Policies ———————————————————————-NEWS AND EVENTS———————————————————————-FedEx Introduces New Hybrid Electric Delivery VehiclesFedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation, unveiled a fuel-efficient hybrid-electric-diesel delivery vehicle last week that could become a standard delivery truck for the FedEx Express fleet. The FedEx OptiFleet E700 hybrid electric vehicle increases fuel efficiency by 50 percent while decreasing particulate emissions by 90 percent and reducing smog-causing emissions by 75 percent. Thus far, FedEx Express has agreed to purchase 20 OptiFleet E700s that will be deployed in four U.S. cities within the next year. FedEx expects to order more trucks as needed, and could potentially replace the company’s 30,000 medium-duty delivery trucks with hybrid electrics over the next decade.Eaton Corporation produced the hybrid electric powertrain for the vehicle, combining a four-cylinder engine with a motor and a Lithium-ion battery pack. FedEx worked with Environmental Defense to produce […]
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What if corporations could maximize profits for shareholders only when it's not at the expense of the environment or human rights?
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Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) is the first graduate school devoted to sustainable business. Although a number of other schools have developed programs with a focus on the environment, BGI offers an MBA education that fully integrates environmental and social responsibility into all of its courses. The BGI learning community approach combines face-to-face and distance learning methods to serve students who live and work in any location.BGI prepares leaders from diverse backgrounds to succeed in creating and managing environmentally and socially responsible (ESR) businesses and nonprofit ventures. BGI students are dedicated to bringing sustainability into the workplace, and in many cases are already doing so. Current students include the chairman of a public utility, present and former senior sustainability managers at Hewlett Packard and Shell, successful entrepreneurs, the founders of the world’s leading co-housing company, engineers, a documentary film-maker and a fascinating variety of other professionals, activists, and business people.Drawing on thought leaders from many communities, BGI’s faculty includes corporate leaders, environmental educators and activists, sustainable business academics, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, organizational consultants, change agents, scientists and technologists. The faculty includes many leaders in sustainability including Amory Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism, resource conservation guru and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute; […]
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By Stacy MalkanSometimes a solution creates problems of its own. When Bill and Melinda Gates and the Gates Foundation, through the World Health Organization, spent billions of dollars on immunization programs worldwide to stop the spread of preventable disease, a new challenge was created: what to do with all those plastic needles. The billions of syringes used each year for vaccination or therapy can’t be reused without risking the spread of Hepatitis B and HIV. But the proposed solution, burning the waste, poses yet another major health risk. Waste incinerators emit dangerous air pollutants such as dioxin, one of the most potent carcinogens and an endocrine-disrupting chemical that already contaminates the breast milk of mothers around the world. “Does the price of immunizing children have to be the pollution of mother’s milk? We want the answer to be no,” says Charlotte Brody, RN, executive director of the international coalition Health Care Without Harm, which works to transform the health care industry so it is no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment. So Health Care Without Harm, led by engineer Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, sponsored an international competition in search of non-burn waste treatment technologies that could […]
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Can businesses "grow" by enhancing their services rather than endlessly getting bigger? The BALLE network thinks so.
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*News and Events Eighteen Veterans Hospitals Earn the Energy Star Label UPS to Test Fuel-Cell-Powered Delivery Vehicles in Michigan Ethanol Industry Growing as States Consider New MTBE Bans Cal State Hayward to Install One Megawatt of Solar Power U.S. Wind Industry to Grow 25 Percent in 2003 Pennsylvania Launches a $5-Million Clean Energy Initiative*Site NewsInterfaith Coalition on Energy*Energy Connections New York and Connecticut May Face Power Problems this Summer ———————————————————————-NEWS AND EVENTS———————————————————————-Eighteen Veterans Hospitals Earn the Energy Star LabelDOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the Energy Star to 18 Veterans Affairs medical centers on May 14th. The winning medical centers were identified and qualified through a joint effort of EPA, DOE’s Federal Energy Management Program, DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The energy-efficient medical centers are located in 16 states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington State. See the DOE press release at: [sorry this link is no longer available]The joint EPA/DOE Energy Star program for rating and labeling building energy performance, now in its fourth year, has recognized more than 1,000 U.S. buildings as models of energy […]
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King County, Washington runs a model program, LinkUp, which helps manufacturers incorporate local recycled materials into their products.
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*News and Events DOE to Award $150 Million for Hydrogen Demonstration Project Dow Plant to Install up to 35 Megawatts of GM Fuel Cells DOE Funds Project to Cut Manufacturing Costs for Solar Cells SunPower Pilot Line Produces 20-Percent Efficient Solar Cell NASA, BMW and Two Utilities Draw on Waste Methane for Energy Washington Utility Signs Contract for Power from Wave Energy*Site NewsState Energy Efficiency Incentive Programs*Energy Connections EPA: Light-Vehicle Fuel Economy Increases Slightly in 2003 ———————————————————————-NEWS AND EVENTS———————————————————————-DOE to Award $150 Million for Hydrogen Demonstration ProjectDOE announced on May 8th a $150-million solicitation for a five-year project to demonstrate and validate hydrogen vehicles and infrastructure. DOE seeks proposals from industry teams — ideally consisting of an automobile manufacturer and an energy company in combination with hydrogen fuel cell manufacturers, small businesses, universities, and state or local governments — that will split the cost of the project with DOE. The projects might include building a fleet of hydrogen vehicles or installing hydrogen fueling stations. Proposals are due by August 14th. See the DOE press release at: [sorry this link is no longer available]President Bush has proposed $1.2 billion in research funding for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies over the next […]
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by Kirsten Elder Companies in the news BP Solar www.bpsolar.com Black & Veatch www.bv.com CTG Energetics www.ctg-net.com Evergreen Solar www.evergreensolar.com Fronius International www.fronius.com Pacific Solar www.pacificsolar.com.au PowerLight Corp www.powerlight.com Solar Energy Systems Ltd www.sesltd.com.au New Products Fronius International, a world market leader in the field of high frequency power electronics and one of the largest suppliers of grid tied PV inverters in Europe, is to increase its US presence by introducing its grid-tied inverters – the FRONIUS IG series – into the US grid connect market this year. The IG inverter has already quickly gained market share in Europe. (Solarbuzz.com, 09/05/03) The City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) has launched a new Renewable Energy – “Palo Alto Green” – offering to all residential, commercial and industrial customers within Palo Alto that provides an easy, affordable way to purchase electricity generated from 100 percent wind and solar power resources. On behalf of program participants, Palo Alto Green will purchase wind energy from newly constructed wind turbine facilities within the western power system and from new photovoltaic projects within Palo Alto and elsewhere in California. Palo Alto Green also hopes to be Green-e certified by the Centre for Resource Solutions, a national […]
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This year’s American Institute of Architects (AIA) Top 10 Green Building projects were honored on May 1st at the National Building Museum and will be again at the AIA National Convention and Design Expo in San Diego, California on May 9th. They were chosen based on a positive contribution to their community, comfort for building occupants, and reduced environmental impacts through strategies such as: reuse of existing structures, connection to transit systems, low-impact site development, energy and water conservation, use of green construction materials, and design that improves indoor air quality.The projects incorporate commonly used green building features: passive and active solar heating and cooling, natural ventilation, daylighting, high-efficiency lighting and appliances, and less common techniques of earth-sheltered or straw-bale construction. Winners include a spectrum of building types – new construction and renovation of office, retail, residential, academic, and institutional facilities. The Chicago Center for Green Technology, for example, is an ambitious LEED Platinum design that uses almost 50% less energy than comparable construction, gets over 17% of its energy from solar and used 36% recycled materials in its construction. All of tenants are involved in environmental-related pursuits including Spire Solar Chicago (solar panel manufacturer), Green Corps (landscape training) and […]
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