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National Defense August 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Defense Department Needs Investors to Buy Into its Renewable Energy Goals Most bases rely on local utilities to supply them with the vital energy they need to function. The Defense Department wants to turn the clock back, but not with fossil fuels. It is looking to alternate sources of energy -- solar, wind and waste -- to help it meet some lofty goals.  |
National Defense August 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Energy: Market Holds Promise, and Plenty of Caveats The big daddy of military renewable energy projects is the Obama administration's directive for the U.S. military to deploy 3 gigawatts -- enough to power 2 to 3 million homes -- of renewable energy, including solar, wind, biomass and geothermal, by 2025.  |
Investment Advisor October 2008 Robert F. Keane |
Going Green With Garbage When many advisors and their clients get together these days, topic number one is energy. How it will affect the portfolio, and the planet.  |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2005 John Teresko |
Powerful Opportunities As global manufacturing faces conflicting energy challenges new answers are being found. The winning opportunities are in power management, renewable resources and distributed power generation.  |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Solar Power May Be Asked to Protect and Serve The U.S. Army is making a big push for renewable energy, and it's a smarter move than you may think.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Sandra Upson |
A Less Well-Oiled War Machine The high cost of petroleum is forcing the U.S. military to turn to solar, geothermal, and wind energy.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 William Sweet |
The Biggest Little PV Plant in the East The northeastern United States is not where most would think to put a photovoltaic power plant. But one just started up in Pennsylvania this winter. It's delivering the watts, but at what cost?  |
National Defense May 2009 Matthew Rusling |
Green Construction Standards Adopted at Army Posts Army engineers are evaluating hundreds of construction projects to ensure that they meet "green" building standards.  |
Food Processing January 2008 Marty Weil |
Consider Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources Solar and wind power, biogas and biodiesel may solve your manufacturing company's energy problems as well as its green initiatives.  |
Financial Advisor March 2008 Jeff Schlegel |
The Next Biggest Thing The next gold rush might already be here -- green technologies, a vast sector running the gamut from renewable energy sources to clean technologies that enables businesses to boost performance while minimizing their environmental impact.  |
The Motley Fool November 20, 2010 |
Chevrolet to Invest $40 Million in Clean-Energy Projects The GM automaker aims to reduce CO2 emissions.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Vaclav Smil |
A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along  |
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel |
Government, Industry Play Ping-Pong With Green Investment Strategy A Defense Department official compared the process of finding federal funding for green energy projects to a night out on Bourbon Street.  |
National Defense June 2012 Tom Price |
Solar Energy at Military Bases, Once Too Expensive, Is Now Within Easy Reach The Defense Department's energy mandates are as clear as they are difficult to reach: Procure at least 25 percent of facility energy from renewable resources by 2025.  |
Wired October 23, 2007 Amanda Griscom Little |
Olive Drab Goes Green: The Military Deploys Solar, Wind, and Biomass Power In December, the Department of Defense will complete nation's largest 15-megawatt solar installation.  |
Fast Company July 2009 Anya Kamenetz |
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got.  |
Science News February 11, 2006 Janet Raloff |
Wind Makes Food Retailers Greener The Environmental Protection Agency recognizes the top 25 institutions committed to making significant investments this year in ecologically responsible, "green" power systems, especially wind farms.  |
Popular Mechanics May 17, 2007 Tyghe Trimble |
Turbine Turbulence: How to Fix U.S. Wind Power On the outskirts of Abilene, Texas, if you get close enough, the whoosh of giant, energy-pumping blades might convince you that wind power is destined to grow.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Sandra Upson |
The Greening of Google In the U.S., corporate rooftops are the latest frontier in solar energy generation.  |
National Defense November 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Defense Leading the Way in Energy Savings Our enormous national appetite for energy at last has emerged as a national security issue. The Pentagon, fortunately, is now assuming a leadership role in areas spanning energy-saving technologies and alternative fuels.  |
Investment Advisor July 2008 Robert F. Keane |
Energy Is in the Air In spite of Washington's inaction, wind farms could go a long way toward reducing carbon emissions  |
Food Processing September 2008 Diane Toops |
Food and Beverage Companies Go Green Consumers are making choices based on sustainability efforts; here's what the top food and beverage companies are doing.  |
Geotimes February 2006 |
Turning Trash Into Energy Global investment is growing in a variety of projects that take trash and convert it into usable energy: Turkey to oil... Poop power... From bread basket to fuel pump... Flying high on plant waste... Trash to light up New York...  |
Popular Mechanics December 2009 Jennifer Bogo |
Why Texans See Green Gold in Renewable Resources As America's petroleum heartland, Texas isn't known for being environmentally sensitive. But its oil-boom, energy savvy attitude could put the state in a surprising position -- leading the charge to alternative energy in the U.S.  |
Food Processing April 2012 Dave Fusaro |
PepsiCo Casa Grande Plant Reaches 'Near Net Zero' for Sustainability Frito-Lay's Casa Grande, Ariz., plant is nearly self-sustaining in water, heat and electricity.  |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2009 John Teresko |
The Future Is Bright For Solar Energy Photovoltaics and other alternative energy solutions offer economic and environmental advantages to manufacturers.  |
Fast Company September 2013 Jon Gertner |
FloDesign's Jet-Engine Turbine Will Change The Way You Think About Wind Power If FloDesign's business plan falls short in the next few years, the company's fate would be all the more bitter, since the potential seems so large. People love the idea of a radical new clean-energy technology.  |
Wired May 2005 Daniel H. Pink |
The New Power Generation Soccer moms, taco shops, even real estate developers - mainstream America is starting to pull the plug and rely on homegrown solar energy. Call it the dawn of the hygrid age.  |
Food Engineering November 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins |
Cover Story: How Green Was My Factory Renewable energy is becoming a factor in all types of food facilities, though it's only one part of a wider drive toward green building design.  |
Entrepreneur April 2010 Julie Bennett |
Are We Headed Toward a Green Bubble? Billions of dollars are pouring into clean-tech companies - with little results. Is this an intelligent investment or the beginning of another bubble?  |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Does It Pay to Go Green? With the recent upsurge in interest about renewable energy sources, investors in the alternative energy sector have had plenty to celebrate.  |
National Defense July 2009 Jeff Smith |
Defense Department's Energy Strategy Debated The Defense Department is making progress reducing energy demand, but it has a long way to go to meet the federal government's aggressive targets, military and government officials said.  |
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Ben Elgin |
Another Inconvenient Truth Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver.  |
Parameters Spring 2006 Nader Elhefnawy |
Toward a Long-Range Energy Security Policy An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 John Boyd |
Japan's Green Power Dreams Delayed A year after Fukushima, nuclear power is still down and renewables are far from ramping up  |
Reason June 2009 Ronald Bailey |
Energy Futures A quick guide to alternative energy sources we may see in the not-too-distant future.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation?  |
Wired March 23, 2009 Vince Beiser |
Store Power in Super Batteries Storing wind and solar power is key to the successful transition to these energy sources.  |
The Motley Fool January 6, 2012 Travis Hoium |
Like It or Not, Renewable Energy Is Here to Stay Nuclear and biofuels aren't our energy future, but solar is -- despite what naysayers say. I like and invest in solar power not because I'm a tree hugger, but because the facts and trends tell me this is energy's future.  |
CFO July 1, 2006 John Goff |
Power Source How a fresh crop of CFOs is propelling the alternative-fuels industry.  |
Salon.com January 18, 2001 Damien Cave |
Green power in the red Electricity deregulation is bankrupting California's fledgling eco-friendly energy industry...  |
National Defense May 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Offshore Wind: An Untapped Energy Source Wind is now the world's fastest growing energy source.  |
This Old House Keith Pandolfi |
Is Wind Power for You? Under the right conditions, saving energy can be a breeze.  |
National Defense December 2003 Harold Kennedy |
To Ease Deployments, Army Revamps Way It Runs Bases Seeking to ease longstanding problems exacerbated by frequent troop deployments to fight the war on terrorism, the U.S. Army is reorganizing the way that it runs its military bases across the United States and around the world.  |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Energize Your Portfolio Oil hovers near $50 a barrel. Fossil fuels are becoming scarcer. Do you wonder where fuel will come from in 20 years, or even in 10 years? Ponder the investment possibilities in renewable energy sources.  |
T.H.E. Journal April 1, 2010 Sara Stroud |
Feeling the Heat Under pressure to cut energy costs, administrators will find solar power a less expensive and more efficient option than ever.  |
Wired July 2001 Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else...  |
Searcher May 2001 Irene E. McDermott |
The Internet Express - I got the power: alternative energy resources on the web...  |
Popular Mechanics December 9, 2009 Adam Hadhazy |
Cutting Water Use to Curb Carbon Dioxide By taking water conservation further, and by thinking differently about how we treat and move water, analysts believe the U.S. can achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions fairly quickly.  |