"You must sacrifice! I will lead you!"
No, these will lead, cuz they know we haven't got time to waste, and when you are paying a carbon tax, they won't be. Besides these, California is the leader. And you will be brought, kicking and screaming, along with us.
Google Solar Panel Project In October 2006, Google announced a commitment to solar energy production and launched the largest solar panel installation to date on a corporate campus in ...
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In Eco-Friendly Factory, Low-Guilt Potato Chips
Peter DaSilva for The New York Times
Solar concentrators are being installed at a Frito-Lay plant in Modesto, Calif.
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By ANDREW MARTIN
Published: November 15, 2007
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — At Frito-Lay’s factory here, more than 500,000 pounds of potatoes arrive every day from New Mexico to be washed, sliced, fried, seasoned and portioned into bags of Lay’s and Ruffles chips. The process devours enormous amounts of energy, and creates vast amounts of wastewater, starch and potato peelings.
Now, Frito-Lay is embarking on an ambitious plan to change the way this factory operates, and in the process, create a new type of snack: the environmentally benign chip.
Its goal is to take the Casa Grande plant off the power grid, or nearly so, and run it almost entirely on renewable fuels and recycled water. Net zero, as the concept is called, has the backing of the highest levels of corporate executives at PepsiCo, the parent company of Frito-Lay.
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Wal-Mart says it will:
• Slash gasoline use by its trucking fleet, one of the largest in the USA, and use more hybrid trucks to increase efficiency by 25% over the next three years and double it within 10 years. That will save $310 million a year by 2015, the company says.
• Buy 100% of its wild-caught salmon and frozen fish for the North American market only from fisheries that are certified as "sustainable" by the non-profit Marine Stewardship Council within three to five years. That designation means areas of the ocean aren't fished in ways that destroy fish populations.
• Cut energy use at its more than 7,000 stores worldwide by 30% and cut greenhouse-gas emissions at existing stores by 20% in seven years. Wal-Mart is the largest private electricity user in the USA.
• Reduce solid waste from U.S. stores by 25% within three years.
The company, second-largest in revenue in the world behind ExxonMobil, has vowed to invest $500 million a year in energy-saving technologies.
It has built test lab stores in Aurora, Colo., and McKinney, Texas, where it is experimenting with everything from wind power to permeable asphalt that lets rainwater seep through parking lots to help refill groundwater aquifers. It wants to build stores that produce 30% fewer greenhouse emissions in the next four years.
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FedEx Unveils Solar Installation at Oakland International
Renewable Energy Today, August 15, 2005
FedEx recently activated a 904-kilowatt solar power installation, which covers nearly 81,000 square feet of roof, at its hub at Oakland International Airport
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September 14, 2007
General Motors Plans 870 kW Solar Power Array
General Motors says it is adding one of the largest solar power installations in corporate use in the U.S. to the roof of its Service and Parts Operations warehouse in Fontana, California. The 870 kW solar power array, that’s 1.3 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year, will provide about half of the electricity needed to run the facility and will feed enough extra electricity back to the grid to power over 300 California homes for a year.
The Fontana solar array will be installed on GM’s 300,000 square foot warehouse facility and will become operational in December.
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Detroit Lions host first Carbon Neutral NFL Game
November 21st, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 19, 2007
LIONS 68TH THANKSGIVING DAY GAME TO BECOME FIRST 100% CARBON NEUTRAL GAME
Ford Field to partner with Carbon Credit Environment Services for GREEN initiative
Detroit, Mich. – Ford Field is set to become the first NFL stadium to hold a 100% carbon neutral game on Thursday, November 22 when Ford Field and the Detroit Lions offset GHG (Green house gas) and CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions for the Lions 68th Thanksgiving Day game.
Every organization contributes to carbon dioxide emissions through its everyday operations, and Ford Field will take a positive position to offset 100% of its Carbon Footprint with the assistance of Carbon Credit Environmental Services (CCES) of Detroit www.getcarboncreditco2.com.
Ford Field’s carbon neutral event will offset 1,866,000 pounds of GHG/CO2 emission in one day, including:
Removing CO2 emissions from 28,260 cars for one day travel to the event
Removing CO2 emissions from one 747 jet of fans for the one day event
Removing CO2 emissions from 255,675 KWh of electricity usage form the Ford Field event
Reducing a total of 933/tons of GHG, CO2 emissions for the one-day event
getcarboncreditco2.com
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It can be done
McKinsey & Co. on how to reduce greenhouse gases
Posted by David Roberts at 10:09 AM on 30 Nov 2007
McKinsey & Company is a very large, very old, very prestigious consulting company. They've just released an ambitious report called "Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost?"
Here's what they did:
Starting in early 2007, a research team from McKinsey worked with leading companies, industry experts, academics, and environmental NGOs to develop a detailed, consistent fact base estimating costs and potentials of different options to reduce or prevent GHG emissions within the U.S. through 2030. The team analyzed more than 250 options, encompassing efficiency gains, shifts to lower-carbon energy sources, and expanded carbon sinks.
Here's what they found:
The United States could reduce GHG emissions in 2030 by 3.0 to 4.5 gigatons of CO2e using tested approaches and high-potential emerging technologies. These reductions would involve pursuing a wide array of abatement options with marginal costs less than $50 per ton, with the average net cost to the economy being far lower if the nation can capture sizable gains from energy efficiency. Achieving these reductions at the lowest cost to the economy, however, will require strong, coordinated, economy-wide action that begins in the near future.
Executive summary (PDF). Full report (PDF).
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