The U.S. Department of Energy today announced more than $7 million to fund four projects in California, Washington, and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel cell electric vehicles. The 3-year projects will help lower the costs and increase the performance of hydrogen storage systems by developing innovative materials and advanced [...]
The public, replacement school is being built on Fort Huachuca, the Army’s leading intelligence training facility at 155 Carter Avenue, Fort Huachuca, Arizona 85670. The new Colonel Smith Middle School will be the first Net Zero Energy Building in Arizona and 12th in the nation. The $17M school will generate more energy than it consumes [...]
Dec 13 2011 | Posted in
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The U.S. Green Building Council’s Center for Green Schools, working in conjunction with its founding sponsor, United Technologies Corp., today released its inaugural Best of Green Schools 2011 list recognizing school administrators and government leaders in 10 categories for their efforts to create sustainable learning environments. Recipient schools and regions from across the nation – [...]
Dec 13 2011 | Posted in
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Canadian Pacific Logistics Solutions (CPLS) has developed a new wind energy supply chain connecting manufacturers in Quebec and Florida with a new clean energy transload facility in upper New York State. CPLS is an industry leader in wind energy logistics. “CPLS has demonstrated competence and expertise in the movement of these super-sized dimensional wind energy [...]
Dec 10 2011 | Posted in
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The Eastridge Group of Staffing Companies and its Green Talent Staffing division have been selected to provide staffing services for a San Diego-based solar module manufacturing project led by France-based Soitec, a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for electronic and energy industries. Eastridge and Green Talent have already started to recruit [...]
Dec 10 2011 | Posted in
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Declaring “this is a great day for the Pittsburgh region’s economy and environment,” Heather Sage, vice president of Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture), announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded PennFuture a grant of $315,697 to advance the use of solar power in western Pennsylvania. The grant, which was applied for by [...]
Dec 9 2011 | Posted in
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Entrepreneurs, students, scientists and professors from eight states enter competition for $250,000 in prizes The Clean Energy Trust is reviewing more than 100 applications submitted for the 2012 Clean Energy Challenge business competition. The Challenge seeks the best business ideas in the Midwest with the potential to bring new clean energy technology to the marketplace. [...]
Dec 9 2011 | Posted in
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The Green Job Bank released its third report on the green jobs created by the 10 winners of GE’s Ecomagination Home Challenge. This is a positive trend with 42 new green jobs posted on the companies’ websites in the October/November 2011 period. Of the 10 companies, 6 added new jobs. SunRun added 15, Hara Software [...]
Dec 8 2011 | Posted in
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game’s Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) celebrated the opening of a shared marine science research center at Hodgkins Cove, a $400,000 renovation made to promote sustainable fisheries and economic development. Working in close collaboration with the fishing industry, researchers will focus on tuna, [...]