Sustainability : News brief

Deere was among this year’s repeat winners in Ethisphere Institute’s 2008 list of 2008 World’s Most Ethical Companies.

Deere was among this year’s repeat winners in Ethisphere Institute’s 2008 list of 2008 World’s Most Ethical Companies.

While Apple is greening up its laptops, it isn’t spitting out solar products yet. So, taking up the call, QuickerTek has put out an awesome new product specifically for Macophiliacs. Fitting the MacBook, a foldable sheet of thin-film solar cells can charge up your laptop.

Among the first customers are actress Jamie Lee Curtis and filmmaker husband Christopher Guest.

The new tower is reported to incorporate a wide range of clean technologies, including solar panels, energy efficient appliances and wind turbines, and is due to meet the requirements of the US Green Building Council’s LEED Gold certification.

Boats powered by alternative fuels is nothing new…human-powered (duh), wind (double duh), electricity, steam, biodiesel, solar…all fairly old hat with improvements occurring daily. But this one takes the cake.

 

Cities, non-profits and businesses launched a climate change action campaign for U.S. consumers this past Thursday, on World Environment Day.

The Group of Eight industrial powers said Sunday they hoped to launch 20 large projects to bury greenhouse gas by 2010 and aimed to broadly deploy the technology a decade later.

GM said it would consider all options for the car, "from a complete revamp of the product lineup to a partial or complete sale of the brand"

Next year, Verenium wants to built several commercial plants that would each produce 20 to 30 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol yearly.