Tag: Featured Business
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America’s First All-Electric School Bus Coming to California
The first all-electric school bus could be picking up California students by 2014. Trans Tech Bus and Motiv Power Systems debuted the bus at the recent 2013 National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) Annual Summit in Grand Rapids, MI. The two companies collaborated on the bus for the Kings Canyon Unified School District in the San Joaquin Valley of California. “An electric bus can save a…
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Crowdfunding Campaign Helps Schools Go Solar
At least three schools will receive solar panels, utility savings and renewable energy education as a result of a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) campaign. The NRDC has taken to the crowdfunding website, Indiegogo, in an attempt to fund solar panel installations for three to five schools. The goal is to raise $54,000. As of Thursday…
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Guide to Buying Energy Efficient Light Bulbs as Daylight Savings Time Ends
An uptick in energy consumption is inevitable with the the end of Daylight Savings Time coming this Sunday. The majority of the U.S. will gain an extra hour Nov. 3 when our digital clocks move back an hour at 2 a.m. As fall and winter carry on, the days will get shorter and require more…
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Smart Parking Solutions Can Reduce Emissions, Transform Cities
By Greg Rucks and Laurie Guevara-Stone [caption id="attachment_309880" align="alignright" width="400"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] Searching for a parking space is a routine (and often frustrating) activity for many people in cities around the world. This search burns about one million barrels of the world’s oil every day. There are also four parking spaces per vehicle in…
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Offshore Wind Farms Coming to U.S., But When?
Offshore wind farms are coming to the U.S., the Department of Energy (DOE) announced this month, but nobody is sure just when. Eleven offshore wind projects have reached “an advanced stage of development,” according to the 2013 U.S. Offshore Wind Market and Economic Analysis, published earlier this month by Navigant Consulting. The farms would collectively generate 3,824 megawatts…