A Big Audacious Goal: Turning on the Lights for 1.4 Billion People

kristyGreen Prosperity

Cleanwatch The e-Letter on Clean Technology from Clean Edge Welcome to Cleanwatch. Each issue offers the latest news, events, and other resources on clean energy, transportation, water, and materials. A Big Audacious Goal: Turning on the Lights for 1.4 Billion People By Ron Pernick At the recent Fortune Brainstorm Green …

Companies miss out on tax incentives for sustainability

kristySRI/ESG News, Greentech

Companies miss out on tax incentives for sustainability Companies might fail to minimise the cost of sustainability initiatives if their tax departments are not involved in the efforts, says Ernst & Young. More >>> US biofuels set to outshine geothermal, say financiers The investment future is bright for the US …

Clean Energy’s Falling Prices and Expanding Markets Overshadow Challenges

kristyGreentech

Cleanwatch The e-Letter on Clean Technology from Clean Edge Welcome to Cleanwatch. Each issue offers the latest news, events, and other resources on clean energy, transportation, water, and materials. Clean Energy’s Falling Prices and Expanding Markets Overshadow Challenges By Trevor Winnie America?s divisive election year politics have once again turned …

GE Joins JP Morgan to Jointly Invest $225 Million in 662.5-MW Wind Farm

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news Subscribe to Clean Edge News 02/29/2012 GE Joins JP Morgan to Jointly Invest $225 Million in 662.5-MW Wind Farm Expanding its renewable energy portfolio in Texas, GE unit GE Energy Financial Services has joined JP Morgan to jointly invest $225 million in a partnership that owns the 662.5-megawatt Capricorn …

Green Deal Finance Co eyeing billions in green bonds

kristyGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

Vote in the Environmental Finance Voluntary Carbon survey Environmental Finance is conducting its annual survey of the voluntary carbon markets, polling its readers on the leading project developers, traders, brokers, advisors, verifiers and other service providers active in these markets. More >>> Green Deal Finance Co eyeing billions in green …

Be Part of Clean Edge’s Multi-Client Utility Clean Energy Research Project

kristyResource Efficiency, TV Series

January 31, 2012 Join Clean Edge’s Utility Clean Energy Leadership Index Clean Edge is seeking multi-client participants for the Utility Clean Energy Leadership Index, a first-of-its-kind research project on the clean-energy activities of the top utilities and independent power producers (IPPs) in the U.S. This groundbreaking research will acquire data …

Energy Efficiency in 2012: Forecast Is Mostly Sunny

kristyResource Efficiency

Energy Efficiency in 2012: Forecast Is Mostly Sunny By ACEEE Executive Director Steven Nadel Looking forward into 2012, I see more reasons for optimism than pessimism. Many states and utilities are committed to ramping up their energy efficiency programs this year and even more are considering similar steps. For example, …

Trevor WinnieClean-Energy Technologies aren’t “Cute,” but Critical to our Energy Future

kristyResource Efficiency

CLEANWATCH The Monthly e-Letter on Clean Technology from Clean Edge Welcome to CLEANWATCH. Each issue offers the latest news, events, and other resources on clean energy, transportation, water, and materials. Trevor WinnieClean-Energy Technologies aren’t “Cute,” but Critical to our Energy Future By Trevor Winnie When Microsoft founder and chairman Bill …

Sustainability: June 2011

kristySustainability News

The news is not good: the US is falling behind in the clean-tech race. While the clean technology sector is booming in Europe, Asia and Latin America, its competitive position is “at risk” in the United States because of “uncertainties surrounding key policies and incentives.” In my 1997 HBR article, …

Across the Globe, Big Corporate Dollars Aiming at Clean Tech

kristyGreentech

CLEANWATCH The Monthly e-Letter on Clean Technology from Clean Edge Welcome to CLEANWATCH. Each issue offers the latest news, events, and other resources on clean energy, transportation, water, and materials. Across the Globe, Big Corporate Dollars Aiming at Clean Tech By Clint Wilder It is one of the great three-word …