Leadership

Green Becomes Official Color of Baseball

11thhouraction — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:39:57 -0500

NEW YORK -- When baseball's legendary greats came rolling up Sixth Avenue this month for the annual Hall of Fame parade, the familiar red carpet was distinctly green.

That's not talking about the hue.

The carpet, stretching for 20 blocks through Midtown, was made entirely of recycled fiber and manufactured using solar and wind power.

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Food and Wine Magazine's Guide to Green Eating

11thhouraction — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:19:24 -0500

The latest publication to grace the shelves with an eco offering is Food and Wine Magazine, with the August offering covering everything from delicious local food recipes from top chefs around the US to a strategy for supporting local, sustainable honey production in the face of Colony Collapse Disorder.

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Solar Thermal Factory Opened in Vegas, Triples Worldwide Manufacturing Capacity

11thhouraction — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:25:52 -0500

While Ausra CEO Robert Fishman was far from excited yesterday about the BLM solar moratorium policy, he was perfectly happy to tout his company’s new 130,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Las Vegas. “This is a crossover point for this industry. Ausra’s factory is accelerating Nevada’s and America’s solar future by tripling worldwide manufacturing capacity, relieving the supply constraint that has slowed the industry, and continuing to drive down costs,” Fishman said in Ausra’s press release.

The factory will be the Palo Alto-based companies first North American manufacturing and distribution centers and will supply reflectors, absorber tubes and other components for the company’s solar thermal power plants. At full capacity, the facility will produce more than 700 MW of solar collectors annually.

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First Solar Powered Rickshaw

11thhouraction — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:41:16 -0500

London-based research and design company SolarLab is developing a solar-powered rickshaw. The vehicle, which is due to be launched next year, will derive up to 75% of its power from photovoltaics mounted on its roof, and the rest from pedal power.

"As a London-based company, we understand the tangible effects of pollution and congestion in our city. Our solar rickshaw will offer a radical transport solution for tourists and residents of any major metropolis. More importantly, our design is modular enabling easy conversion to load-bearing vehicles for inner city logistics and supply-chain requirements."

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Compact Fluorescent Bulb Recycling Now Available at US Home Depot Stores

11thhouraction — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:27:33 -0500

The Home Depot has expanded the recycling program for compact fluorescent light bulbs begun last November in its Canadian stores to in 1900-odd stores in the United States. Customers can bring in any expired, unbroken CFL bulb the store’s returns desk. “The bulbs will then be managed responsibly by an environmental management company who will coordinate CFL packaging, transportation and recycling to maximize safety and ensure environmental compliance.”

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Japan Airlines To Make Biofuel Test Flight

11thhouraction — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:21:50 -0500

Japan Airlines will join Air New Zealand, Continental Airlines, Lufthansa, and Virgin Atlantic on the list of airlines investigating biofuels in an attempt to improve their environmental image and hopefully reduce costs.

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NEW SEARCH ENGINE SEEKS TO BUILD A GREEN FUTURE!

mhaney — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:13:38 -0500

The first Flash Search Engine is an Environmental Search Engine!! http://www.greenplanetsearch.com is now live!

When Mike Haney first presented the idea behind the technology behind

www.greenplanetsearch.com, he was laughed down. Virtually, of course. “Everyone can

dream,: scoffed one, erroneously.

A few people were intrigued. The combination of Haney’s vision of a Flash-driven search

engine, and the plan to create a dazzling environmental education resource, eventually

attracted a loose-knit corps of collaborators, most of whom have never met in person first

among them Andre Roussille, a French computer programmer, and now part owner of the

company.

The upshot from this collaboration, apart from the stunningly beautiful homepage, is the

only people involved in the creation of the search engine, is that the only people involved

in the development devoted environmentalists, who genuinely wish to disseminate good

information to students and educators.

Later, through a similar serendipity, Mr. Haney teamed up with a veteran journalist who

agreed to lend his services to the site, building from scratch a source of environmental

news and policy analysis.

Advertisers will be strictly vetted by the companies shareholders, limited to companies

that are making a meaningful contribution the planet’s health.

The final result, which was launched this week, is the culminating of thousands of

hours of work, and more than a few false starts.

It boasts easily navigable information, experiments, lesson plans, presented in an interactive and graphically enhanced format,

and has an exclusive global climate change resource section for teachers and kids.

If you would like more information about greenplanetsearch.com, or to schedule an

interview with Mike Haney, please call Mike Haney at 305.531.3746 or e-mail info@greenplanetsearch.com.

New Google Earth Layer Shows Global Deforestation

11thhouraction — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:39:43 -0500

"We’ve already alerted readers to the awesome new features available on Google Earth’s Outreach back in April. Now, check out this new Google Earth KML file by David Tryse (download here), which visually represents the rates of deforestation across the world using polygons. A live hectare ticker and pop-up profiles are also included for placemarked countries. With the other new features of Google Earth Outreach covering everything from dams to endangered species to the South China Sea project, what could be next?"

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Tree Media Group Screens The 11th Hour in Japan, Sponsored by Deutsche Bank

11thhouraction — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:03:55 -0500

Deutsche Bank is sponsoring two screenings of The 11th Hour this week in Japan. The Tree Media Group team departed from LA to Tokyo yesterday and will travel around the country to screen the film. Included in the team is Leila Conners (Writer/Director/Producer of The 11th Hour), Stephan McGuire (Associate Producer of The 11th Hour), Richard Dent (Co-Director of The 11th Hour Action Campaign), and Holli Fajack (Tree Media Office Manager).

Neil Young Focuses Energy on Electric Car

11thhouraction — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:55:06 -0500

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- Neil Young, the rocker who provided some of the soundtrack to Vietnam-era protests, is again trying to change the world -- with his car.

Neil Young wants to use his convertible as a template to make electric cars more mainstream. Young has teamed up with Johnathan Goodwin, a Wichita mechanic who has developed a national reputation for re-engineering the power units of big cars to get more horsepower but use less fuel.