Corporate renewable energy buyers remain undeterred

The vast majority of corporate energy purchasers plans to pick up the pace on renewables in the decade ahead, according to research by GreenBiz and Apex Clean Energy.

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FOMO: Why I’m not going to Paris for COP21

Here’s why EMC’s Kathrin Winkler won’t be at the biggest U.N. climate event of the decade, despite the dreaded Fear of Missing Out.

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GE’s New ‘Magnetocaloric’ Refrigerator Cools Food With Water And Magnets

GE just developed a brand new refrigerator that uses special magnetic materials to achieve temperatures cold enough to freeze water. The magnetic fridge is estimated to be 20% more efficient than current refrigeration technology, and it could be available by the end of the decade. Read the rest of GE’s New ‘Magnetocaloric’ Refrigerator Cools Food With Water And Magnets Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: fridge , general electric , magnetocaloric technology , prototype fridge , refridgeration , refridgeration technology        

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SOM’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is the New Efficient Gateway to Mumbai

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Spaceport Sweden Annouce Plans to Provide Commercial Space Flights Within the Decade

Spaceport Sweden has announced plans to offer commercial space flights within the decade. Located in the small Arctic town of Kiruna, Spaceport Sweden aims to provide tourists with two-hour trips aboard a craft that will carry one-to-six passengers, a venture which the company hopes could establish Kiruna as the European port for commercial spaceflights. Read the rest of Spaceport Sweden Annouce Plans to Provide Commercial Space Flights Within the Decade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: commercial space flights , Esrange Space Center , Kiruna Spaceport , Rexus 11 rocket , space tourism , Spaceport Sweden , Swedish Space Corporation SSC

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Retrofits Could Yield $1T in Energy Savings in US in a Decade

Canny investment in energy efficiency retrofits could yield three times as much in energy savings in just 10 years, research from Deutsche Bank and The Rockefeller Foundation.  

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Retrofits Could Yield $1T in Energy Savings in US in a Decade

10 Predictions on Commercial Energy Management by 2020

A look at how this sector will evolve in the U.S. by the end of the decade in view of President Barack Obama's Better Buildings Initiative.  

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Sainsbury’s Commits £1 Billion to Sustainability Initiatives

The British retailer yesterday unveiled 20 green targets to be achieved by the end of the decade; the company has set an absolute emissions reductions goal of 30 percent by 2020, or 65 percent relative to revenues.

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How Sustainability Software Enters the Corporate Bloodstream

Despite the large number of companies selling carbon- and energy-management software today, vendors of different sizes and backgrounds widely agree on the needs of the market, even if their approaches are very different.

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A ‘Nutritional Label’ for Building Materials & Other Tools for Transparency

A "nutritional label" for building materials and other measures to bring more transparency to the products that make up a building were unveiled at the U.S. Green Building Council’s conventions.

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