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Why the Big 3 are in the dumps

This could be one of the major reasons why Ford, GM and Chrysler are begging for bailout help in the US Congress: it's because the US car market is lagging behind Europe and Japan in terms of greeness. According to automotive data provider Jato Dynamics , the US car market is slower to embrace fuel...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-19-2008
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
Green powerless in chemicals

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Center for Resource Solutions awarded late last month their annual Green Power Leadership Awards to 25 organizations/companies who either purchase, supply or develop renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, low-impact...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
Oil weaning should be shared

I was watching the show 60 Minutes where the US President-elect Obama was being interviewed for the first time after winning the election. According to Obama, despite that the price of oil has gone down energy and a green economy will remain at the forefront of his agenda along with trying to fix the...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
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
Obama cabinet picks

I just received a suggestion from amorris19 that Dow Chemical's Andrew Liveris should be picked as Obama's new Secretary of Energy. He (or she) reasoned that Dow should know firsthand the need to conserve and diversify domestic energy resources; the need to focus on energy efficiency (starting...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-11-2008
The Obama Nation: Will it be green?

Now that Obama is going to be the next president and the US Congress will be dominated by the blue party, there were a lot of optimism in the green sphere as well as slight pessimism (sometimes diplomatically called cautiously optimism) in the chemical and manufacturing sectors. According to ICIS news...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-07-2008
No more free NYC plastic bags?

The plastic industry has often been heard this year accusing several US municipal governments of making them their scapegoat by supplementing city coffers with taxes or charging fees for the use of plastic products such as water bottle or supermarket bags. They might be right this time when Mayor Bloomberg...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-06-2008
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
Obama wins US presidential election

It has been a very exciting night waiting for the outcome of a historic US presidential election and I just want to share the news to the green blog readers that Senator Barack Obama won. More analysis to come in the days ahead on how the incoming new administration, with the democratic party now going...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008

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