Getting Ethanol Right Published: May 23, 2009 Representative Collin Peterson is furious that the Environmental Protection Agency is doing its job. The Minnesota Democrat says the agency is trying to kill off the biofuels industry — to the dismay of the corn farmers and ethanol producers he rep[...]
Archive for September, 2009
September 29th, 2009 - 2:44 am § in Writers
Trash Talk
By ROB WALKER Published: September 24, 2009 After she finished her master’s thesis at Pratt Institute, Tiffany Threadgould set out to be a professional designer, as do many graduates of that college. She spent four years working for a toy company, then founded a small firm in 2006 and now creates [...]
September 29th, 2009 - 2:40 am § in Writers, tbmin Product Bloggers
ECO Friendly Glass Bottles
tbmin Beverages announced that it is planning to enter the U.S. glass bottle manufacturing market this summer, and intends to sell its environmentally friendly bottles to U.S. wineries. The company manufactures eco-friendly glass wine bottles and currently sells its products to the liquor industry i[...]
September 29th, 2009 - 2:35 am § in Writers
Environmentalist Foy wins British Honor
By James Smith, Globe Staff Douglas Foy, the longtime environmental campaigner and former Massachusetts cabinet secretary, is being awarded an honorary “Officer of the Order of the British Empire.” The British consulate in Boston said today that Britain’s Ambassador to the United States, Sir N[...]
September 20th, 2009 - 9:35 pm § in Writers
Moving Ahead on Gadget Efficiency Rules
As my colleague Jad Mouawad and I write in an article in Sunday’s Times, virtually no electronic gadgets in American households — including televisions and computers — are subject to energy efficiency requirements. Many older appliances, such as refrigerators and clothes washers, have been su[...]
September 16th, 2009 - 12:43 am § in Writers
Boston taxi cabs “going green”
Boston Caps go green [...]
September 16th, 2009 - 12:37 am § in Writers
New Japanese leader vows to cut greenhouse gases 25%
Plan is hailed as ‘signal’ to other nations By Jay Alabaster Associated Press / September 8, 2009 TOKYO – Japan’s incoming prime minister promised yesterday to aim for a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 – among the most ambitious cuts proposed by an economic[...]
September 16th, 2009 - 12:32 am § in Writers
State predicts bright future for jobs in solar energy
By Joyce Pellino Crane and Chris Reidy Globe Correspondent | Globe Staff / September 9, 2009/Boston Globe c The number of jobs in the state’s solar energy industry nearly doubled from 2007 to 2008 – and the numbers are on pace to grow sharply again this year, according to Massachusetts off[...]