The Green Planet

The focus of this blog is to track the latest developments in renewable forms of energy. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

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Faster, higher, stronger ... and cheaper?
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Jack Pringle, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, criticised the ODA's energy efficiency targets for lagging behind the government's. ...

Clean energy conference highlights PHS efforts
Proctor Journal - Proctor,MN,USA
The conference aimed to provide citizens with the knowledge on how to get renewable energy and energy efficiency projects up and running. ...

UF's Supreme Court weighs 3 referendums
Gainesville Sun - Gainesville,FL,USA
Questions asking students if they support an extra fee to help pay for renewable energy programs, a student-run homeless shelter and a student-run coffee ...

US Homebuyers Will Pay Premium For 'Green' Homes
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The term 'green building' refers to construction practices that improve the energy efficiency, indoor environment quality, resource management, durability, ...

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A 'Green Challenge' Calls for Ideas to Benefit the Environment

GreenBiz - Washington,DC,USA
... campus buildings to be Energy Star compliant are all ideas that can positively impact the environment. To inspire new ways of being "green," Net Impact, ...

French prez candidates going green
BusinessWeek - USA
Chirac is pushing to create a world environment body, a kind of "green" equivalent to the World Trade Organization. To that end, he's staging a large ...

Vista Launch: Green Party warns of potential 'landfill nightmare'
IT PRO - London,Greater London,UK
To avoid increasing energy consumption and further damaging an already frail environment, the party is urging users, on both the consumer and business side, ...

Poll suggests lots of skepticism among public about environment ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
When Decima asked how respondents would vote if the environment was the only issue in the next election, the Green Party led with 24 per cent support. ...

Green lobby and airlines slam BAA plan for new Stansted runway ...
ABCmoney.co.uk - Birchington,Kent,UK
LONDON (AFX) - Environment campaigners and airlines have criticised plans by airports operator BAA Ltd for a 1.4 bln stg new runway and terminal at Stansted ...

Environment has become pivotal issue
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada
Federal Environment Minister John Baird and Green party leader Elizabeth May stopped in Guelph last week -- separately. The reception each of them received ...

Green gets red hot
Toronto Sun - Canada
Setting the tone for the new session after a six-week break, Parliament re-opened with the environment front and centre. The issue dominated the daily ...

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Portfolio 21 Announces Top 10 'Green' Companies of 2006

GNET - Arlington,VA,USA
Ormat: Ormat is focused on recovered and geothermal energy, both of which are renewable and have low global warming profiles. Ormat uses closed loop systems ...

Climate Change Front and Center at World Economic Forum
Environment News Service - USA
"There is enormous energy efficiency technology available that is not being put to use," concluded Tillerson. Aigrain said science must come to the fore on ...

An Office So Green It's Platinum
BusinessWeek - USA
Wherever possible, TVS chose high-efficiency Energy Star appliances, and it convinced the landlord to submeter Interface's bills rather than charge a flat ...


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Monday, January 29, 2007

New Updates

Suzuki to launch green tour
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Suzuki plans to launch a cross-Canada tour to urge Canadians to make the environment the central issue in the next election campaign. ...

Prince Charles wins US environment award
Times of India - New Delhi,India
But green activists in Britain criticised the royal couple's decision to fly across the Atlantic with a 20-person entourage, accusing the prince of "green ...

C4 schedule goes green for 2007
Stage - London,London,UK
Channel 4 has proclaimed 2007 to be its "year of the environment" with a host of green programming tackling issues from global warming to household waste. ...

Citigroup Ranks 16 in EPA's Fortune 500 Green Power Challenge
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
"We encourage all of America's Fortune 500 companies to purchase green power and demonstrate that what's good for the environment is also good for business. ...

Set green standards for gov't officials
Xinhua - Beijing,China
So why not clear the roadblock and set environment standard for governments at all levels? Green GDP may be a good beginning.

The benefits of green building
Skagit County Business Pulse - Mount Vernon,WA,USA
... to making the Pacific Northwest a leader in "green building"—building design that lessens the impact on the environment through energy efficiency, ...

Students help Scottish businesses go green - 2007-01-29
exduco - Toscany,Italy
During the placement, each student is allocated a Business Environment Adviser from the BEP as a mentor who will assist them to achieve the aims and ...

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Sustainability initiatives earn College top marks
The Dartmouth - Hanover,NH,USA
The College plans to improve its ability to conserve energy by purchasing renewable energy credits and investing in local "green" power. ...

Net-zero homes: The future lives here
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
It has taken high oil prices, improved renewable energy technology and the looming threat of global warming to introduce "green" building to the suburbs and ...

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Green taxation: Need of the hour
PunjabNewsline.com - Mohali-Chandigarh,Punjab,India
The Environment begins at home. Sensible green solutions save money, for the individual and for the nation. Better insulation in our homes, for example, ...

'Green' gains popularity
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
In the world of green (as in "environmental") building and living, furnishings have lagged behind, laments Tamara Scott-Anderson, owner of Contents ...

South West CDC residents go green with campaign to reduce energy ...
Channel News Asia - Singapore
With the help of the National Environment Agency, it wants to get residents to see that it makes perfect dollar sense to cut down on energy consumption. ...

Making a commitment to the planet: My big, fat green wedding
Independent - London,England,UK
Ian Herbert reports on the couple who tied the knot without harming the environment. For the prospective bride and groom who dream of flying their entire ...

Alternative News Media on Democracy, Politics, Trade, Environment ...
Canadian Democratic Movement - Canada
Suddenly Harper has become "The big green machine". He started by firing his former Environment Minister for releasing a laughable clean air act. ...

Environment takes root as number one election issue
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
OTTAWA - It was by chance that John Baird met Green Party Leader Elizabeth May for the first time on the day he was sworn in as environment minister earlier ...

Planes, a train and many automobiles as Charles picks up US green ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
But questions from green campaigners about their decision to fly to the US to pick up an environment award refused to evaporate as the Prince of Wales and ...

Why the next election will be fought on the environment
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
OTTAWA -- It was by chance that John Baird met Green Party Leader Elizabeth May for the first time on the day he was sworn in as environment minister ...

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

New Events


Dartmouth earns high marks for sustainability
Dartmouth News - Hanover,NH,USA
Dartmouth received aC for investment priorities, which includes investing in renewable energy funds and community development loan funds. ...

Access to energy key to reducing poverty: ADB official
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
ADB's current Clean Energy and Environment Program comprises several initiatives, including the Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change ...

Portfolio 21 Announces Top 10 'Green' Companies of 2006
GreenBiz - Washington,DC,USA
Working in areas such as energy efficiency, materials reduction, waste reduction, recycled/recyclable materials, and end-of-life product recycling, ...

UC Advances Campus Green Initiatives
The UCSD Guardian Online - San Diego,CA,USA
UC officials highlighted the university's achievements in expanding campus green projects and renewable energy use ­- which include lowering operating costs ...

IMD Reduces and Offsets its Carbon Emissions
SocialFunds.com - USA
In addition to reforestation, future targets for IMD’s donations may include renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. ...

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Chic & cheerful (but not so great for the environment)
Independent - London,England,UK
Tony Blair's chief environmental adviser has joined the heads of Friends of the Earth and the Green Party to condemn increasing sales of cheap, ...

It's crystal clear: The environment will be the single most ...
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Then we decided that we would also turn 2007 into our year of going green. Not that The Globe hasn't been concerned about the environment for a long time, ...

Bush Is Left Isolated As America Turns Green
Free Internet Press - New York,NY,USA
For years, the most powerful voice in the US Senate on the environment was a conservative Republican from Oklahoma, James Inhofe, who famously declared ...

EU emissions play goes up in smoke
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan
... wider use of bio-fuels and green incentives for drivers. The two have not even contacted each other in recent weeks. German Federal Environment Minister ...

Green Canucks stuck on auto, poll finds
Ottawa Sun - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
Wacky weather, media coverage and government announcements on the environment all play a part in keeping green matters front and centre in people's minds, ...

UN favours easier green rules for emerging markets
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), urged developed nations to "take the next big step" against climate change by ...

National recycling title for two teacher Cranford
Donegal News (subscription) - Omagh,UK
... commitment to the Green Schools programme and their efforts in creating a sustainable school environment, particularly in relation to waste reduction. ...

Prince Charles accused of "green hypocrisy"!
DailyIndia.com - Jacksonville,FL,USA
... the "Environment Citizen of the Year'. However, his decision to fly to the US to pick up his award personally has drawn flack from green campaigners. ...

Global warming leaves MPs on the hot seat
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The Conservatives and NDP have a common political enemy in Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion, a former environment minister who will be fighting back with his ...

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