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Dangling the hybrid carrot

According to several news reports, majority of US folks (including Congress) are against bailing out the cash-strapped Big 3 automobile makers -- GM, Ford and privately-held Chrysler -- but there are worries especially within environmental groups if the financial crisis will push development of US electric...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Dow's Energy Plan for America

Maybe our friend amorris19 got something about Dow Chemical's CEO Andrew Liveris being a candidate for Energy Secretary after all. Dow just announced today its own energy plan for America , something like what T. Boone Pickens has been doing before the election but much more expanded to other than...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2008
World Toilet Summit

I was eating breakfast while surfing the web, and thinking of serious election-aftermath stuff to post in the blog when this news about this week's ongoing World Toilet Summit in Macau caught my attention. At first I was amused by the notion of a global toilet expo and all the crappy notions that...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
Financial crisis and $60 oil: Now what?

A colleague of mine (and several readers of the green blog) expressed a spreading sentiment of uncertainty whether the current financial crisis and the price downfall of crude oil will put a brake in the investment surge towards renewable energy and other clean technologies. Venture capital investments...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
No plastic bag ban from Wal-Mart

Much to the relief of the chemical and plastic manufacturing community , the big box retailer giant Wal-Mart opts to reduce, reuse and recycle instead of implementing plastic shopping bag bans. Yesterday, Wal-Mart announced its goal to reduce its global plastic shopping bag waste by an average of 33...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2008
Plug-Ins better than hybrids

Here's a year-long study from San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) proving that a plug-in electric vehicle has more advantages than a standard hybrid and more so over the current traditional cars. Here are some of their selling points: The plug-in hybrid achieved 67 MPG, a 60-percent increase...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-25-2008
States of the green nation

Sustainlane.com, an online community focusing on sustainable living, released today its top green US cities for the year based on their ability to maintain healthy air, drinking water, parks and public transit systems, as well as a robust, sustainable local economy with green building, farmers markets...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2008
Lucky $26m green recipients

Is $26m enough to partially fund development of new energy efficient industrial processing? The US Department of Energy (DOE) seems to think so and has given the three-year funding to be shared by eight lucky projects: Energy Reduction and Advanced Water Removal via Membrane Solvent Extraction Technology...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
Stronger US wind power

Here's a nice cool story from the New York Times about a certain Nebraska town and its growing pride in their windy condition. Ainsworth, Nebraska, according to the article, became the state's first major wind farm with 36 wind turbines erected in late 2005. Nebraska Public Power District, the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2008
Garbage war in Pennsylvania

Disposing trash must be really getting costlier if a hauler has to sue its municipal garbage authority for landfill discrimination. Lebanon Farms Disposal, a hauler from Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, was fined in 2003 for violating Lebanon County's disposal regulation by transporting their refuse...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008

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