Category Archives: Natural

Made with wind power, now branded

By doris | Published: June 15, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The wind power industry unveiled a new standard Wednesday that will qualify products to get its WindMade consumer logo. Products made with electricity that’s at least 25% derived from wind power will meet the new standard and be awarded the WindMade logo. The logo — three concentric blue [...]

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Refrigerator Redux: How to Put Your Electric Bill on Ice

By doris | Published: May 2, 2011

Full Story at DailyFinance.com With families across the country struggling to economize, the electricity bill looms as a great place to cut expenditures. While unplugging laptops and installing compact fluorescent bulbs can certainly help trim your power bill, those items only account for a fraction of the average household’s electricity expenditure. To really cut down, [...]

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GE to buy most of Converteam in $3.2B deal

By doris | Published: April 2, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — General Electric Co. said Tuesday it will spend $3.2 billion for a controlling stake in French equipment developer Converteam as it continues to position itself as a major player in what’s expected to be a 20-year boom in oil and natural gas demand. Converteam, which serves a variety [...]

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Renewable energy without Uncle Sam’s help

By doris | Published: January 25, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — At a solar power company in downtown San Francisco, Edward Fenster plans on doubling his workforce to 8,000 people in the next year. Fenster is chief executive of SunRun, a company that puts solar panels on residential rooftops.

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Solar power done cheap

By doris | Published: June 29, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com LOS ANGELES (CNNMoney.com ) — In a construction van winding through Los Angeles’ crowded streets one hot spring morning, 25-year old Tim Morris laid bare his contribution to changing America’s dirty, fossil fuel-based economy. “I’d like to see America and the world become sustainable,” said Morris, a transplant from Flint, Mich., [...]

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Olive oil production goes global

By doris | Published: June 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com BERKELEY, Calif. – Call it the EVOO evolution. Extra-virgin olive oil, once the domain of Spain and Italy, is popping up in surprising new places. It’s on the up-and-up Down Under, growing in Croatia and is becoming such an industry in South America that a Chilean producer is bringing two products [...]

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GM unveils tiny, futuristic concept car

By doris | Published: March 25, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com SHANGHAI – It’s not quite as foldable as the space vehicle that cartoon figure George Jetson pops into his briefcase as he bops into the office. But the EN-V concept car, GM’s “automobile solution” for the future, just might fit into an apartment foyer. General Motors and its Chinese partner SAIC [...]

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PepsiCo developing no-cal, natural sweeteners

By doris | Published: March 24, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK – A race to develop natural, zero-calorie sweeteners is bubbling up in the nation’s $100 billion beverage industry. PepsiCo, looking to revive itself in the declining soda industry, is boosting its development spending for this search and to mix up new drinks. PepsiCo Inc. said Tuesday at an investor [...]

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