Tag: Featured Business
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It’s Official: U.S. Solar Industry Had Record-Shattering Year in 2013
What would Alexandre Edmond Becquerel be thinking now? In 1839, at the age of just 19, Becquerel built the world’s first photovoltaic panel, later inspiring the imaginations of millions of people worldwide, including legendary scientist Albert Einstein. Still, it took another 115 years before Bell Labs invented the first modern silicon solar cell. By comparison,…
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Fox News Attacks Apple Despite Its Parent Company Also Preaching Sustainability
Fox News quickly went on the attack after Apple CEO Tim Cook told a think-tank representative to “get out of stock” if his organization wasn’t on board with Apple’s sustainability efforts. While some of the anchors and pundits on Fox’s news and business TV channels questioned whether Cook’s comments at the annual shareholders meetings were…
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Author Chris Leonard Talks to Bill Maher About Meat Industry’s Secretive Stronghold on Washington
During his years reporting on the meat industry and gathering information for his latest title, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business, there were times when Chris Leonard couldn’t believe he was actually in the U.S. The book’s inspiration began about a decade ago when he visited one of the many small towns…
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World’s Largest Grid Operator Reveals Why Increased Wind Energy Means Increased Savings
By Michael Goggin [caption id="attachment_324255" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] In the fall, PJM, the largest grid operator in the world, serving 60 million customers across 13 Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, issued the preliminary results of a major wind integration study. The final results of the study were released Monday and they are even better than the preliminary results. Among the highlights:…
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Massachusetts Approves New England’s Largest-Ever Renewable Energy Procurement
[caption id="attachment_324213" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] While projects in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine are all vying to make the New England the home of the nation’s first offshore wind farm, one of those states recently amped up its on-land renewable energy in a major way. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said the state’s Department of…