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The Clean Energy Revolution - Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT
Beyond guts, a great business plan, and friends with deep pockets, clean energy entrepreneurs will need patience and perhaps most of all, a favorable policy environment to succeed. Fortune magazine editor Brian Dumaine leads a discussion with panelists from the worlds of venture capital, academia ...
Downsizing Sale (Victoria Park / Ellesmere) $1 - Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:07:00 GMT
- Toshiba 30" HDTV (Tube) with flat screen, High Definition (HD), 1080p, widescreen, Audio/Video in/out, works as a PC monitor too, and lot more, fully functional remote. $150 (or best offer) - 15" HP LCD Monitor LG, $45 - BBQ, Spacemaker, with side burner, and working ignition, almost full propane ...
Buffalo Bills 2010 Season Preview - Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:29:00 GMT
By Tony Moss, NFL Editor (Sports Network) - The Buffalo Bills and Chan Gailey have both been absent from the NFL playoffs for a long time. Almost exactly the same amount of time, actually. The Bills' last playoff foray came on Jan. 8, 2000, when they were 22-16 losers to the Tennessee Titans in the ...
Open threads for night owls: Green jobs - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:28:00 GMT
At The Nation, Amy B. Dean writes, Doing Green Jobs Right: Phyllis Evans never gave much thought to the national debate over green jobs. As a mother of two, former substitute teacher and homeowner in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Evans was active with New England United for Justice, which ...
Denver Mint to coin new energy approach, use wind - Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:11:00 GMT
The U.S. Mint in Denver is going green. Xcel Energy said Tuesday that the Mint, which produces coins, will start getting all its electricity from wind power. The federal facility will buy its power from the utility's Windsource program, through which customers pay a little ...
Windfarms bring renewable energy and good fortune to Romania - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:00:00 GMT
Black Sea winds turn Romanian villages into Europe's wind energy El Dorado Exiled to the shores of the Black Sea 2,000 years ago, the Roman poet Ovid discovered the powerful winds that blew across that eastern border of the empire. To this day the wind continues to blow inland as far as Fantanele, ...
Exelon Headquarters Expansion Advances Utility's Green Building Leadership (Business Wire) - Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:10:00 GMT
CHICAGO----As part of Exelon’s industry-leading effort to reduce energy consumption across its facilities, the company announced today that it has increased its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design -certified space to more than 650,000 square feet.
Ten Green Storage Solutions - Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:47:00 GMT
Storage units: a monument to mindless consumerism, or a green solution to making the most of your belongings? People often characterize the proliferation of self storage in the United States as a sign of consumerism or a materialist culture. To me, consumerism means consuming products. Buying ...
How it sounds vs. how it really works - Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:55:00 GMT
Here is how it sounds, from Whitehouse.gov: At an event with homeowners and workers who benefited from the program, today in Manchester, New Hampshire, Vice President Joe Biden announced a major Recovery Act milestone – the weatherizing of 200,000 homes under the Recovery Act. As a result of the Administration’s ...
Community Manager - Bilingual (GTA - West) - Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:39:00 GMT
Bilingual Community Manager Be our clients’ first Community Manager. Use your Social Media passion and communication skills to drive customer engagement, industry engagement and attract new clients. Our client, a global electrical equipment distributor, is a privately owned, independent group of wholesalers ...
Disarmed, , Jim Gabour, Jim Gabour and Jim Gabour - Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:36:00 GMT
In the end I decide not to take it. There are the army roadblocks and checkpoints going into the city, and vehicle searches. I do not savor the prospect of being found by the US military to be in possession of an unregistered weapon, even if it is a sixty-year-old WWII souvenir and has not been fired ...
First Utility fights costly eco laws - Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:03:00 GMT
Government green measures are threatening the expansion plans of one the country's newest energy suppliers, First Utility, which gives smart meters to its customers. Smart meter
CREE to Supply 10.5W LED Downlights to Home Depot - Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:38:00 GMT
cree led light home depot photo Photo: Cree Let There Be Light At TreeHugger, we've been writing about ways to make lighting more energy efficient for years. Not because it's the most important things to do to reduce your footprint (more important things including: signing up for Green ...
'The Job's Not Done' Bus Tour Visits Albuquerque and Santa Fe - Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:58:00 GMT
BGA stop in S Fe - Mayor Coss Santa Fe Mayor David Coss is a former union member of Communication Workers of America, one of the leading partners in the national BlueGreen Alliance A bus tour that highlights the potential to create good American jobs by passing comprehensive clean energy ...
Our Politics of Powerlessness…And Mediocrity - Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:49:00 GMT
I’d started thinking that I was too hard on our power company last week, when I agreed with Gov. O’Malley that their service was less reliable than power in some Third World countries. I was starting to think maybe that was a bit hyperbolic. That is until I read the Post this morning. Apparently, Pepco ...
Vizio 42” 240Hz 1080P LCD HDTV - Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:45:00 GMT
The Irony Heel Well, you did it, Internet. You got Betty White that SNL hosting gig. Now what? Can you make Werner Herzog the Today Show weatherman? Can you persuade the NFL to dress their referees in buttless leather chaps? Can you get Tom DeLay on Dancing with the – oh, yeah, right. However you and ...
You Can Make Your Home Greener with Energy Efficient Appliances - Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:05:00 GMT
Time for a makeover? Make sure green appliances are a part of the plan Time for a makeover? Make sure green appliances are a part of the plan Does it bother you that you think your carbon footprint is too big? At the same time, are you paying more than you’d like for your utility ...
You Can Make Your Home Greener with Energy Efficient Appliances - Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:05:00 GMT
Time for a makeover? Make sure green appliances are a part of the plan Does it bother you that you think your carbon footprint is too big? At the same time, are you paying more than you’d like for your utility bills? Well, fortunately, there’s an easy solution to both problems. Go ...
Confessions of a recovering environmentalist, Paul Kingsnorth - Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:57:00 GMT
Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity … and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is imagination itself - William Blake Scenes from a younger life # 1: I am 12 years old. I am alone, I am scared, I am cold and I am crying my eyes out. I can’t see more ...