Tag: Featured Business
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Bill Gates-Funded Solar Toilet Converts Feces Into Soil Stabilizer
This isn’t the first time you’ve heard a college professor say his team of researchers is working on something that has never been done before, but it’s likely the first time such a statement has been associated with a technology that takes advantage of both solar energy and feces. Karl Linden, a professor of environmental…
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How California Will Use Renewables to Replace Massive Nuclear Plant
By Sierra Martinez California took another major and symbolic step this month with its decision to rely significantly on energy efficiency and other clean energy resources to help replace electricity once generated by the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) serving San Diego and the greater Los Angeles area. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) made official…
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Celebrating the Burgeoning Green Roof Scene in DC
The Executive Director of DC Greenworks, Peter Ensign, recently teamed up with filmmaker Sandy Cannon-Brown to produce a short film on the burgeoning green roof scene in Washington, DC, and it will be screened at the venerable Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capitol on March 21. I used the occasion to ask him a few questions. Q. What will people…
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How California’s 75 Percent Recycling Goal Will Create Thousands of Green Jobs
Ever since California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law requiring the state to achieve 75 percent recycling by 2020, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) wanted know more about how the statute would impact the environment and jobs sector. The NRDC commissioned Tellus Institute to assess the potential for more jobs if the state does reach…
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How One State Can Triple Its Renewable Energy Use at No Additional Cost
By Sam Gomberg With Gov. Rick Snyder’s recent announcement of clean energy goals for Michigan, the conversation is quickly developing around the future role of renewable energy in the state. To help inform that conversation, a newly released analysis by my Union of Concerned Scientists colleagues and me found that Michigan can triple its use of renewable energy—from 10…