Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pa.) Uses Viridity Energy’s Smart Grid Technology
Drexel University is deploying Viridity Energy’s VPower System™ to provide a real time view of power usage. By better understanding real time usage and real time pricing they can buy power when costs are low / lower sand sell back when power is more expensive. This is smart grid technology.
Drexel hopes to show how they can “ … manage its energy costs and environmental impact … will allow the University to purchase power at times of the day when demand is low and sell excess power back to the larger power grid.”
Drexel will look at how organizations can balance solar, wind and energy storage to save money and even become less impacted by grid disturbances / outages.
PECO, the local electricity generator, is working with Drexel to see how this might be applied more broadly across the region.
Via: Drexel University LINK
In 2008 California passed legislation that requires “packing peanuts” to contain recycled material – starting with 80% by 2014 and going to 100% by 2017.
G / MULCHING / COMPOSTING rather than landfilling your tree.
Some Home Depot stores in Texas and the western US will carry Southwest Windpower’s Skystream 3.7 home sized wind turbines. This makes wind power – 100 % renewable energy – readily available to consumers. 
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Seventh Generation is known for its green products and low impact manufacturing. Their paper package for 4X detergent takes this to a new level. 
“ … can take in stormwater at a rapid rate of over one thousand inches of water per square foot per hour, which far exceeds the flow rate needed to prevent runoff in even the most severe rain events. “
by imperious paved areas and allows rain to seep back into the ground and recharge aquifers.
“OPOWER … is working with Facebook and the Natural Resources Defense Council to create an app that will let people share data about how much -- or little -- electricity they're using at home.”
The King of Prussia Mall, in King of Prussia PA is getting EV charging statins.
I found this interesting guide to building a green roof. I have not tried it (I do not have a flat roof) but it seems do-able.
The University of Delaware is working on technology to enable EV owners use their cars batteries as storage / stabilizing capacity for the grid.
Duane Reade – the NYC drugstore chain - is the 1st US Retail Pharmacy to use EVs. The trucks, Newton models from Smith Electric Vehicles - “ … can travel up to 100 miles on a single overnight charge. … operating costs over one year are one-third to one-half those for a conventional diesel vehicle … Newton also uses regenerative braking … [to] charge to the truck’s battery …”
Temple University and Sodexo launched (Sept. 19th) the Waste Not Project. The program has multiple goals including portion control and nutrition.
The US DOE is sponsoring the 2011 Solar Decathlon – where 20 colleges and universities bring houses they designed and built to DC to compete in an “energy-off”. 
GE and Lowes are partnering to offer customers GE’s wall mounted EV car chargers.
(lowering the carbon footprint of bringing in a non local raw material) and help eliminate industrial waste.
Airbus along with major European Airlines and producers are crating an initive called the ‘
a novel design to mount HORIZONTAL wind turbines on overhead highway signposts. By modifying the existing signposts they can be become wind energy sources. See mocked up picture at RIGHT >>> 
ing energy efficiency closer to the mass market.
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United has a green sustainability program called eco-skies. Among the highlights of the program are ... 
The rubber industry is looking for alternatives to petroleum based rubber as pricing for petroleum is going up fast.
he bark (cork) is harvested approx every 10 years from trees that can live for 300 years.
e-Waste is a growing problem - one significant issue is that it is often taken to other nations for handling and improper or unsafe disposal.
North American electronic waste and provide support to nations in both Africa and Asia coping with e-waste imports ..."
MIT scientists have found a novel way to use virus' to improve the efficiency of PV cells. The virus' " ... perform detailed assembly work at the microscopic level ... based on findings that carbon nanotubes ... can enhance the efficiency of ... solar cell's surface."
Street sgns and utility power poles are almost everywhere. A project at The University of Nebraska is looking into ways to use wind power and solar panels on signs to power roadway lights and traffic signals. Any excess power will go into the local energy grid.
feature batteries for storage. " ... Each unit consists of a wind turbine generator and one or more PV panels mounted on the top of the pole for electric power generation." 
Ecotricity is a green UK energy supplier. 
San Francisco's new Terminal 2 was retrofitted to be green by design. It is the first Airport Terminal in the US to achieve GOLD LEED. 
es is matched by an equivalent, guaranteed CO2 reduction through a carbon offset project." 
The other day while walking in the city I noticed an interesting large green sticker on a intercity bus. It was from the Green Coach Initiative and promoted the bus line's "support being and acting green."
The Dow Chemical Company and Cobblestone homes have collaborated to build Michigan's FIRST Net Zero Energy Home. The home uses techniques like "...insulation, sealants, geothermal heating and solar generation."
le not at home or the office. If you make it easy folks will recycle.
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The First National Bank of Omaha (Nebraska) has as green focus. They have a fuel cell powered data center that is a GHG free power source. They also offer paperless / online banking which can reduce your impact on the environment.
Syracuse University students worked with consultants to create an eco friendly green office at the University's Smith Hall.
One key infrastructure item slowing the acceptance of pure electric vehicles is a lack if EV charging stations. Cracker Barrel is helping to build out the infrastructure using locations along highways
illion pounds of carbon dioxide over a 25 year period. ...energy created ... equals more than 111 million miles not driven by a medium sized car ... 11 million trees would need to be planted to equal the same level of carbon dioxide reduction."
a Trek store for recycling.
in a parking lot with the Sustainable Waste Solutions and knew there would be a blog post there. SWS is a local company with a Souderton, Pa address that turns waste to energy (W2E).
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n uses no fossil fuels for heating. Instead they uses biomass from farming leftovers. 80,000 homes heated by biomass and not fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas! And this is an area of the world where it gets VERY COLD !
According to the Scott's web site 17 billion toilet tissue tubes are thrown away each year ..." That's enough to fill the Empire Sta Building. Twice". Or 20 747s.