Archive | February, 2010

17 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

New electric bill could drive better usage

Never underestimate American’s competitive fire. Show your usage with your neighbors (in aggregate for privacy). People need benchmarks to know how they are doing. I love it. How it Works The basic principle is simple: Instead of only telling people how much energy they used (f.ex. 100 kWh in the past 30 days), you tell [...]

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16 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Another report on venture capital flowing to Energy Efficiency

Here is another article on the massive flow of venture capital money into Energy Efficiency, from an Ernst & Young report. At the end of January, we had a similar post with reports from Deloitte as well as Greentech. The numbers never seem to match among the reports, but the consensus is the same: The [...]

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11 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Climate Change / Global Warming

With the record breaking D.C. snow, many detractors of climate change / global warming science are feeling emboldened in their argument against the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence. First, the record breaking D.C. snow is of itself evidence of climate change as one of the key pillars of climate change science is an increase in [...]

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11 February 2010 ~ 3 Comments

New Public Company Disclosures Required about Climate Risk?

I have been a part of more than my share of 10Ks and S-1s through the years, so I found this blog post very interesting. The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued an interpretive release on February 2, 2010, entitled Commission Guidance Regarding Disclosure Related to Climate Change. The release does not create any new [...]

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10 February 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Even in down economy, retailers turning green

I thought this was pretty interesting considering all of the doom and gloom regarding the retail sector. Several large retailers are making serious investments in greening their businesses. Huge retailer, Kohl’s, increased its green energy purchase by 160 percent, from 851 million kWh to 1.37 billion kWh, moving from the third-largest purchaser to the second-largest [...]

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