Tag: sustainable development

February 27, 2014 – The U.S. Department of State issued the following news release: The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will host a roundtable discussion highlighting the official launch of the Asia-Pacific Clean Energy Program on February 27 at 2 p.m. The […]

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McKinstry, a leader in integrated construction, energy, service and smart building innovations, has announced that Jamie Pedersen has been hired as Vice President General Counsel and Heidi de Laubenfels has been hired as the Director of Communications and External Relations.  In addition, Ron Johnson has been named Vice President of Facility Services, Mike Locke has […]

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Todd Bishop, GeekWire, April 17, 2012. Microsoft has announced that it has achieved a goal of reducing its carbon emissions as a proportion of revenue.  The company says that there has been a 30 percent reduction over 2007 levels. “I’m pleased to report that we’ve met this goal through a combination of energy efficiency measures […]

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Source: Miguel Llanos,  MSNBC, March 20, 2012. The Bullitt Center, a six-story, $30 million “living” building designed, maybe a prototype for future buildings.  The Center is designed to use a third of the energy used by a similar, conventional building. It is designed to generate solar electricity, collect rainfall water, and treat sewage and wastewater […]

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Source: Gibby Media Group, Press Release, March 12th 2012. Gibby Media Group of Spokane, WA, has launched a new international interactive website in partnership with the UN Commission on Sustainable Development Small Island Developing States Partnership in New Sustainable Technologies (UNCSD SIDSPINST).  The site provides a single one stop, online location for the technology research […]

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A Two-Day International Conference on Global Sustainable Finance will be held from 5th to 6th of July, 2012 in Karlsruhe, Germany. This event will bring together top executives and senior members of financial institutions, policy makers, economists, commercial and investment bankers, SME, and Micro Finance executives, academia, regulators, sustainable development practitioners, senior government officials, representatives […]

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Source: Inrix Press Release, January 18, 2012. INRIX, the leading international provider of traffic information and intelligent driver services, today announced a complete rebranding of the U.K.’s leading traffic information and travel news service Trafficlink to INRIX. “Whether travelers get their information from radio and T.V. news reports or over the Internet, the INRIX mark […]

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Source: Itron Press Release, January 17, 2012. Itron announced that, in partnership with Cisco, it has brought to market their combined next-generation smart grid platform, delivering on the companies’ vision to create a secure, scalable and multi-service IPv6-based communications architecture. This next-generation platform will help utilities accelerate adoption and simplify deployment of smart grid solutions, […]

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Source: Greg Lamm, TechFlash, January 14, 2012. AltaRock Energy of Seattle is working with Google and the U.S. Department of Energy on a project to see if heat locked inside a volcano in Central Oregon can be tapped as a cheap, reliable energy source. If successful, the $43 million project could vastly expand the use […]

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Source: PNNL Press Release, January 17, 2012.  Energy storage, power grid development benefiting from 162-Teraflop system. A new, 162-Teraflop peak supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is helping scientists do more complex, advanced research in areas such energy storage and future power grid development. It also uses less energy than similar […]

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