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Adobe Headquarters Awarded Highest LEED Certfications

Adobe Systems Inc.(Nasdaq:ADBE)announced it has received Platinum LEED certifications for its East and Almaden headquarter towers in downtown San Jose, distinguishing Adobe as the world’s first commercial enterprise to achieve a total of three platinum certifications under the LEED program. Adobe’s West Tower was awarded Platinum certification in July 2006. The Platinum designation is the highest rating under the U.S. Green Building Council’s green building certfication program, LEED – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-Existing Building. “With the certification of Adobe’s Almaden and East Towers, Adobe has again raised the bar for other companies seeking to introduce sustainable, environmentally-friendly practices into their facilities,” said Rick Fedrizzi, founder, president and CEO of the USGBC. “The USGBC is honored to congratulate Adobe on its substantial achievements. Not only has Adobe achieved the highest environmental honor for a commercial building with the West Tower Platinum certification, but these two additional certifications make Adobe the only company in the world to have three LEED Platinum buildings.” To achieve Platinum certification of the East and Almaden Towers, which opened in 1998 and 2003 respectively, Adobe invested approximately $650,000 for energy and environmental retrofits since 2001. These retrofits have resulted in approximately $728,000 in savings to […]

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Alabama Creates Center for Alternative Fuels

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Clean Energy Announces China Deal

Clean Energy Combustion Systems Inc. (CECU.OB) has signed an agreement with Lucky Power International Ltd. for an exclusive technology license patented in the People’s Republic of China for the recovery, purification and compression of raw landfill gas into high quality Compressed Natural Gas. The raw gas is collected from the decomposition of municipal waste in the landfills associated with large Chinese cities. The fuel can be used to power diesel engines of all sizes. Under the terms of the agreement, Clean Energy will issue seven million treasury shares in return for exclusive access to all the commercial development of this technology in the People’s Republic of China. Clean energy will own a 70% interest. The company anticipates achieving net cash flow next year growing substantially over the next five years. The technology is operating at a pilot facility in Shenzhen, China. The CNG produced in Shenzhen is sold via a long-term contract to the local municipality which uses it to fuel its municipal vehicles. Commitments are being made for the development of a minimum of two new landfill sites over the next two years and a total of 10 new installations during the next five years. Each facility will have […]

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Suntech Inks BIPV Canadian Contract

Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP), a leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, announced that its subsidiary, MSK Corp. has reached an agreement with ARISE Technologies Corp. (APV.V), to distribute the MSK Just Roof(TM) system in Canada. Just Roof, one of MSK’s Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) systems, functions as a fully self-contained watertight roof structure, eliminating the need for traditional roofing materials below the panels. The Just Roof product is ideally suited for new construction projects, but can also be retrofitted to existing roof tops. Says Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech’s chairman and CEO, “MSK’s BIPV systems are seeing substantial sales penetration in Japan [4000 systems sold]where they are even being offered as a standard feature by some of our home builder customers. We look forward to encouraging the adoption of this exciting solar technology in North America and Europe.” Consumer demand for solar products in Canada is expected to be driven by recent initiatives promoting the use of renewable energy. Under Ontario’s Standard Offer Program, the Ontario government will pay approximately $0.37/kWh for power generated by solar energy over a period of 20 years. To promote this new policy, the Canadian government recently partnered with ARISE and MSK to […]

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XMAS Trees: Real or Fake?

It’s the holiday season again – albeit a warmer one – and for those of you who purchase xmas trees you’re probably wondering which is best, real or fake?The one year I had a tree, we bought one and planted it. About 6 years later, it’s growing into a beautiful tree. I feel good seeing it grow and the precious memories it brings forth. I’ve always felt uncomfortable about the idea of a “throw-away” tree – yet another ‘product’ for us to consume – but now with our new knowledge of carbon sequestration, it looks as though they’re not a bad option. According to AFreshSqueeze.com, a Chicago e-newsletter on green lifestyles, live trees are a better choice than fake trees, which are usually made from PVC, a hazardous plastic that’s hard to recycle. Yes, they’re reusable, but we imported 9 million fake trees from China last year – the energy it takes to get them here probably cancels out their reusability.There’s over 500,000 acres planted with Christmas trees in the U.S., providing oxygen for 9 million people a day! Since younger trees produce the most oxygen, continuously planting young trees soaks up the most CO2. Dawn Peterson, co-owner of Oney’s […]

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