Tag: Featured Business
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Find out Which Businesses, Cities and Universities Use 100 Percent Green Energy
More and more businesses, municipalities and universities are promoting themselves as efficient, but only a select few can honestly say they use 100 percent clean energy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrated those green energy consumers yesterday by releasing its 100% Green Power Users list. The list is comprised of organizations in the agency’s…
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3 Tech Companies Using Renewables to Combat Data Center Energy Crisis
It takes a lot of energy to enable web users to stream videos, downloads books and other online activities—about the same amount it would take to power 30 nuclear power plants. Data centers around the world use about 30 gigawatts, or 30 billion watts of electricity, according to Green House Data. U.S. data centers account…
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What Is Your State’s Renewable Energy Grade?
Vote Solar and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) recently published report cards grading each state on policies related to net metering and interconnection—two measures that are critical in utilities allowing people to generate their own power. California, Massachusetts, Oregon and Utah each received “A” grades in both categories of the seventh annual Freeing the Grid report. Only…
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Why ALEC’s Attacks on Renewable Energy Failed Nationwide
Though nonprofit organizations and educators have recently touted clean energy as an alternative to carbon-polluting fossil fuels, a new report shows the lengths others have gone to prevent the growth of renewables. The latest report from ProgressNow details how the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) attempted to curtail renewable portfolio standards (RPS) in states across the country…
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Rethinking the Role of Business in Solving Environmental Problems
By Mindy Lubber [caption id="attachment_310193" align="alignright" width="300"]Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] In 2012, when the Obama Administration sought to raise average fuel economy standards, something unexpected happened. The “Big Three” automakers—General Motors, Chrysler and Ford—backed the effort. For decades, every attempt to raise fuel economy standards had been met with stiff opposition from automakers who argued…