Tag: Featured Business
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How a Solar Incubator Aims to Make Oakland the Industry’s ‘Epicenter’
Danny Kennedy couldn’t stop after seeing his own company, Sungevity, add more than 200 employees since 2009. He has since created SfunCube, an incubator and accelerator that he believes could make Oakland, CA “the world’s epicenter for solar entrepreneurship.” In a New York Times feature, the incubator’s founders, inhabitants and even a California energy commissioner…
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Levi’s Makes 100,000 Pairs of Jeans With 100% Recycled Water
Denim might be the most well-known component of jeans, but it takes a good amount of water to give a pair the type of color and shape that make consumers want to reach into their pockets. Since drinking and bathing will always be infinitely more important uses for water, Levi Strauss & Co. is attempting…
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Study Surveys Veterans’ Powerful Presence in U.S. Solar Energy Industry
For the first time, a report has gauged the contributions of veterans in the U.S. solar industry. According to Veterans in Solar: Securing America’s Energy Future, released today by Operation Free and The Solar Foundation, 9.3 percent of the workers in the nation’s solar sector are veterans. That’s good for 13,192 employees who happen to be veterans of…
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Arizona Air Force Base Celebrates Largest Solar Array of Any on U.S. Department of Defense Grounds
There are at least 700 renewable energy projects on U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) grounds. The department’s largest solar array was launched this month in Arizona. The Davis-Monthan Air Force base (D-M) in Tucson, AZ celebrated the ribbon cutting of a 16.4-megawatt photovoltaic solar array earlier this month. The array is powerful enough to provide electricity to 3,000 homes…
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New Greenpeace Website Exposes Financier Behind Huge Coal Project Proposals in Pacific Northwest
A new website developed by Greenpeace seeks to expose the lengths a private equity investor has gone to support those who want to export coal from the Northwest U.S. to Asia. RossBhappu.com chronicles Ross Bhappu’s key role in coal export proposals in Oregon and Washington, bankrolling Australia-based Ambre Energy—a company that one day hopes to export more…