Sustainable Business Oregon Archives
October 2012
- 'Solarize' program gives rise to new business models
- Vestas to close three U.S. research centers
- Tesla Model S named car of the year by Yahoo
- Winds shifting in presidential debate over tax credits
- Gallery: Residential community Wilder puts down roots in Newport
- Tackling plug load energy use
- Philadelphia 76ers season tips off with green program
- Klamath geothermal project lands $1.75M federal grant
- San Francisco mayor announces cleantech initiative
- NW Whole Foods stores sign on for Bettery battery-exchange pilot
- OpConnect launches smartphone payments for EV charging
- SF-based Green Start's demo day focuses on IT
- Opponents pack Bellingham coal terminal hearing
- Cascade Energy launching efficiency tool for industrial companies
- EverPower's Pennsylvania turbines thriving in Sandy's wind
- Coca-Cola, will.i.am launch Ekocycle with new partners
- Energy storage and demand response key to Oregon’s sustainability
- Portland State's Wiewel honored by U.S. Green Building Council
- ZeaChem closes $25M investment, touts Boardman biorefinery
- Gallery: Bike parts maker Chris King a cornerstone of Portland's bike economy
- It's time to explore the social equity dimension of sustainability
- LED player Lunera moving HQ to Los Angeles
- Brammo CEO urges Oregon to hone its green brand
- Gallery: On top of Turtle Island's Hood River green roof
- Research: Diesel officially dirtier than gas
- BrightSource Energy hauls in $80M for solar farm development
- Sustainable Alpha: The case for a greener MBA
- Oregon's cleantech sector slows the pace
- Data center efficiency: Good but not good enough
- AAA tests electric vehicle charging in Oregon
- Energy Trust of Oregon marks 10 years, $1B in savings
- NW smart grid project goes live
- Build small, live large
- Bike research in Portland arms transportation planners with real data
- Nike invests in sustainable supply chain technology
- SolarCity to power 26 Los Angeles schools
- Green chemistry startup sprouts in Wisconsin
- California, Sacramento nurture green tech revolution
- David Bragdon gets new NYC gig
- New ranking pegs Portland at No. 3 for clean technology
- Oregon is on its way to No. 1 in energy efficiency job creation
- Report: Green roof and wall market worth $7B by 2017
- Ocean Power Technologies lands wave energy contract from Japan's Mitsui
- Taxpayer-backed ReVolt Technology to file bankruptcy
- UO's sustainable cities program nets award, spurs replication
- Merkley lauded as top green politician
- Oregon sees wind energy jump in third quarter
- ZeaChem up for $4.6M award from California Energy Commission
- Portland green building pros named to LEED Fellows roster
- SBO announces finalists for Innovation in Sustainability awards
- Facebook's Prineville Data Center wins Fast Company design award
- Gallery: Oregon Tech students 'solarize' Tanzania
- Will posting calorie labels help?
- Another one drops: Solar firm Satcon Technologies files for bankruptcy
- First Solar to build plants in Indonesia
- Kleiner Perkins cools to cleantech investing
- North Carolina gets $3.7B in revenue from clean energy
- Nest Labs wins patent victory over Honeywell
- California electricians union developing zero net energy training center
- Another cleantech fail: A123 Systems bankruptcy
- Lexus selects Conscious Commuter as finalist in design challenge
- Salem housing community leads way with porous asphalt
- Lufa Farms brings geek factor to urban agriculture
- The vampire of energy efficiency, plug loads matter
- Oregon No. 5 for green jobs in new analysis
- Solar industry fails to shine as bright as predicted
- Legality of Tesla stores under fire in Oregon, elsewhere
- Disney says it won't use rainforest trees for book paper
- Utilities need to change to promote renewable energy
- IKEA turns on Georgia’s largest private solar rooftop array
- Vestas lays off 30% of workforce at Colorado plant
- Naturally Advanced closes $2 million private placement
- Venture capitalists abandon 'traditional' cleantech
- Pennsylvania program sells local wind power
- Coal export makes no sense for Oregon
- Will Portland's next mayor leave a sustainability legacy?
- Iberdrola's Lakeview biomass plans call for more emissions
- Blanchet House earns LEED Platinum
- Report: Keep Portland plastic bag ban
- Tesla Motors getting $10M from California Energy Commission
- Sustainability center team looks to future projects
- Commerce calls for solar tariffs in SolarWorld-led dispute
- Taking on the EcoChallenge: Running a restaurant by bike
- Cleantech Open unveils three Northwest finalists
- Honda offering free gas cards to buyers of natural gas-powered cars
- Investors pull back from cleantech
- Final decision looms on China solar tariffs
- Quantifying the military's cleantech transition
- Energy Trust releases tool for calculating wind energy potential
- Kitzhaber issues order to support Oregon wood products
- Miami could get electric car race
- Arizona officials oppose solar tariffs on China
- LED Trail blazes into emerging lighting market
- Palouse Wind Project nears completion in Washington
- New Mexico transmission project wins FERC approval
- Ohio State University to get 25% of power from wind
- Taking on the EcoChallenge: Innovation at DoubleTree
- SolarCity Corp. plans $201 million IPO
- Adams pulls plug on Oregon Sustainability Center
- SoloPower raises another $12 million
- Twitter users defend Tesla after Romney calls it a 'loser' company
- Oregon Tilth calls off merger plans
- Military leads in clean energy deployment
- Wind turbine powering gravel mine in California
- Ryno closes in on funding, production of one-wheeled EV
- UPS Foundation grants $2M to forestry projects
- AT&T becomes Bloom Energy's largest non-utility fuel cell customer
- Miami launches green building resource center
- Ecotrust Forest Management named top impact investment fund
- Stuff-swapping site ThredUp gets $14.5M
- Transparency is changing the materials marketplace
- Living Future Institute starts label for green building materials
- Patagonia launches clothing recycling initiative in Portland
- Better Place founder Shai Agassi replaced
- Larry Ellison plans eco-friendly experiments on his Hawaiian island
- FoodHub launches joint venture with Boston-based OR FoodEx
- Sedlar leaving New Seasons
- Kettle Chips earn non-GMO certification
- Oregon has one company on global cleantech roster
- Portland's Fox Tower earns LEED Gold
- PGE seeks 100 megawatts of renewable power
- FTC releases revised 'Green Guides' for marketing industry
- NEEA launches campaign for efficient TVs
- Global glut knocks 40 percent off cost of New Mexico solar plant
- Energy efficiency financing program gets restart in California
- Wyden leads call to crack down on Chinese solar companies
- A new economic model for Oregon
- Procter & Gamble making big alternative energy bets
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