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Del Birmingham

Deforestation Facts - What is Deforestation? | NRDC - 0 views

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shared by Del Birmingham on 17 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Yet, in the southeastern U.S., the massive fuel needs of these energy companies could double logging rates and increase carbon emissions significantly –- contributing to climate change at a time when we need to be rapidly cutting our carbon pollution
  • Burning whole trees is worse than burning coal
  • Our southern forests are exported to produce electricity overseas
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  • U.S. utilities are also beginning to generate electricity from wood
  • Alternatives to burning trees are available
  • Del Birmingham on 17 Jun 13
     
    Using forests to fuel power plants in Southeast US and Europe
Adriana Trujillo

Plug Power Extends FedEx Delivery Trucks' Driving Range · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Plug Power will develop hydrogen fuel cell range extenders for 20 FedEx Express electric delivery trucks.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jan 14
     
    ug Power will develop hydrogen fuel cell range extenders for 20 FedEx Express electric delivery trucks.
Adriana Trujillo

IKEA charges up its sustainability plan | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 14 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Nov 13
     
    IKEA soon will become the first major retail chain to offer electric-car charge points at all of its U.K. stores.
Brett Rohring

6 ways Apple's new mothership will be ultra green | GreenBiz.com - 1 views

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shared by Brett Rohring on 19 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • 6 ways Apple's new mothership will be ultra green
  • 1. Fruit trees
  • The new plan will transform an existing site almost entirely covered with buildings and asphalt into a landscape featuring almost 7,000 trees – including the apple, apricot, cherry and plum fruit trees that made San Jose's orchards thrive long before silicon was invented.
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  • When Apple Campus 2 is finished, 80 percent of the site will be green space
  • 2. Renewables
  • the campus will run entirely on renewable energy. The plan calls for about 8 megawatts of solar panels to be installed on the roof of the main, spaceship-shaped building as well as the parking structures. An unspecified number of fuel cells also will be installed, with the rest of the electricity needed for operations sourced through grid-purchased renewable energy.
  • Primary opposition to the site has centered on its transportation plan. To combat those criticisms, Apple has expanded its Transportation Demand Management program, emphasizing the use of bicycles, shuttles and buses that will link employees with regional public transit networks.
  • 3. Net-zero building design
  • the structure itself is being designed to create as much energy as it uses. There is a strong emphasis on energy-efficiency: the passive heating and cooling systems will use 30 percent less than a comparable campus. A central site will contain fuel cells, back-up generators, chillers, condenser water storage, hot water storage, an electrical substation and water and fire pumps.
  • 4. Attention to water conservation
  • Attention has been paid to reducing the number of impermeable surfaces on the site. (Up to 9,240 of the parking spots, for example, will be underground so that Apple can invest in landscaping that absorbs water. A recycled water main is under consideration, and other steps have been taken to minimize water consumption by about 30 percent below a typical Silicon Valley development. Those measures include low-flow fixtures, the use of native plans and roof rainwater capture.
  • 5. An expanded waste management program
  • Apple already diverts about 78 percent of the waste associated with its existing headquarters from landfills. The proposal calls for the company to recycle or reuse any construction waste; from an operations perspective, it will step up recycling from solid waste sources as well as the use of composting.
  • 6. A sharpened focus on commuting alternatives
  • As part of its transportation program, the plan calls for buffered bike lanes on streets adjacent to the campus that are segregated from vehicular lanes and that also allow for bikes to pass each other. The focus will be on encouraging all employees that live within 15 minutes of the campus to use sustainable or public transportation alternatives. The site will start with 300 electric vehicle charging stations, with the built-in capacity to expand.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 Nov 13
     
    The iPhone maker's master plan features extensive green space, aggressive water conservation and one of the largest corporate solar arrays in the world.
Del Birmingham

Tesla handing over the keys to its technology - Yahoo News - 0 views

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shared by Del Birmingham on 13 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Del Birmingham on 13 Jun 14
     
    Electric car maker Tesla Motors is handing over the keys to its technology in an unusual effort to encourage other automakers to expand beyond gasoline-burning vehicles.
Adriana Trujillo

Renewable Wind Energy Source Adoption | The Energy Collective - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 14 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Oct 14
     
    The U.S. could reduce electricity costs by $7.68 billion per year by installing 54 gigawatts of offshore wind power, according to a study supported by the Department of Energy. The goal of the National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study was "to identify and help address the market barriers to the large-scale introduction of offshore wind energy into the U.S. energy portfolio," according to its authors. The report said offshore wind power could be especially useful in densely populated coastal areas
Adriana Trujillo

Sainsbury's turns its own expired food into electricity | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 29 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 29 Jul 14
     
    U.K. supermarkets Sainsbury announces that one English store is now powered entirely by biogas.
Adriana Trujillo

Uruguay makes dramatic shift to nearly 95% electricity from clean energy | Environment | The Guardian - 1 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 15 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 15 Dec 15
     
    Uruguay is generating nearly 95% of its electricity from renewables, according to the Guardian.
Adriana Trujillo

GM's Ohio and Indiana Plants to Meet Electricity Needs with Wind - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 05 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Oct 17
     
    General Motors will power all of its Ohio and Indiana manufacturing facilities with renewables through a 200 MW purchase of renewable energy from two wind farms in Ohio and Illinois. The wind farms will provide enough output to meet 20% of the company's global electricity use from 2018.
Del Birmingham

Electric cars win? Britain to ban new petrol and diesel cars from 2040 - 0 views

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shared by Del Birmingham on 26 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • Del Birmingham on 26 Jul 17
     
    Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040 in an attempt to reduce air pollution that could herald the end of over a century of reliance on the internal combustion engine. Britain's step, which follows France, amounts to a victory for electric cars that if copied globally could hit the wealth of oil producers, as well as transform car industry jobs and one of the icons of 20th Century capitalism: the automobile itself.
Adriana Trujillo

Volvo, Betting on Electric, Moves to Phase Out Conventional Engines - The New York Times - 1 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jul 17
     
    Volvo Cars on Wednesday became the first mainstream automaker to sound the death knell of the internal combustion engine, saying that all the models it introduces starting in 2019 will be either hybrids or powered solely by batteries.
Adriana Trujillo

China could field nearly half of new electric car models by 2020: study - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 21 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Jul 17
     
    Nearly 50 of the 103 new electric car models expected to debut around the world by 2020 will come from Chinese automakers, an AlixPartners report says. The US consulting firm also forecasts that the sale of cars and light trucks in America will suffer a cyclical drop during the next few years.
Del Birmingham

Volkswagen to 'Electrify' All 300 of Its Cars and SUVs by 2030 | Fortune.com - 1 views

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Fortune volkswagen cars emissions carbon electric pledge

shared by Del Birmingham on 11 Sep 17 - No Cached
  • Del Birmingham on 11 Sep 17
     
    Volkswagen is making another electric vehicle pledge, this time with promises to bring 80 new electrified vehicles to customers by 2025 and offer customers at least one electrified version of every model across the company by 2030.
Adriana Trujillo

Energy Transitions Commission launches | Energy Transitions Commission - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 14 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Oct 15
     
    BHP Billiton, Royal Dutch Shell, Schneider Electric, and other supporting organizations have formed the Energy Transitions Commission, which aims to develop actionable insights that help energy companies maintain their economic growth during the transition to a low-carbon future.
amandasjohnston

Report: Renewable energy projects up globally - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram - 0 views

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shared by amandasjohnston on 27 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • amandasjohnston on 27 Oct 16
     
    Renewable energy projects surpassed all other sources of new electricity added to the global supply last year, says a new report released this week by the International Energy Agency. In 2015, renewables made up more than half of all new installed capacity, with the greatest gains seen in onshore wind and solar. It's a development that speaks to a "transformation of global power markets,"
Adriana Trujillo

Energy Sector CO2 Emissions Fell 12% in 2015 · Environmental Leader · Environmental Management News - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 20 May 16 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 May 16
     
    US energy-related carbon emissions dropped 12 percent last year, compared with 2005 levels, after increasing in 2013 and 2014, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Reduced energy-sector C02 emissions in 2015 are largely due to a decreased use of coal and increased use of natural gas in the electricity mix, the EIA says. Such fuel-use changes have accounted for 68 percent of total energy-related CO2 reductions from 2005 to 2015.
Adriana Trujillo

Solar-powered Hotel at Oberlin is first in US to be heated and cooled with geothermal energy | Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 25 May 16 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 25 May 16
     
    The Hotel at Oberlin in Ohio is one of five US hotels that have met the stringent sustainable criteria for LEED Platinum certification. The hotel relies on geothermal energy for heating and cooling and uses solar panels to produce electricity.
amandasjohnston

Renewables have the economic advantage over fossil fuels - The Ecologist - 0 views

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renewables advantage fuels environmental news energy ROI sustainable

shared by amandasjohnston on 16 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • amandasjohnston on 16 Sep 16
     
    A new energy market analysis shows the average cost of electricity from renewables is already lower than from fossil fuels, writes Alex Kirby. And as renewables eat deeper into the 'market share' of coal and gas power plants, so the entire economics of fossil fuel power generation will unravel.
Adriana Trujillo

Press - Carbon Clean 200™ - 0 views

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NGO add other company news clean energy emissions

shared by Adriana Trujillo on 25 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 25 Aug 16
     
    Non-profit As You Sow and Corporate Knights released the Carbon Clean 200 list, which ranks large publicly listed companies worldwide according to total revenue generated from clean energy. The top-5 included the following: Toyota Siemens Johnson Controls Schneider Electric Panasonic MORE »
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