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The Best Overall Average Fuel Economy of Any Full-Line Manufacturer

Through advances in engine design and hybrid technology, Toyota has a wide selection of fuel-sipping cars and the best overall average fuel economy of any full-line manufacturer.*

10 Jun 2008

Company Offsets 100 Percent of Electricity Use and Emissions Produced from Business Travel

Sterling-Rice Group, a Boulder, Colo.-based brand-building and marketing communications firm, today announced it has purchased 339,300 kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable energy credits (RECs) generated by wind farms across America.

10 Jun 2008

Network Aims to Inspire Consumers to Learn and Take Action to Lighten Environmental Footprint

Today The Timberland Company announced the global launch of the Earthkeeper campaign, a movement to recruit one million people to become part of an online network designed to inspire real environmental behavior change.

10 Jun 2008

AMSC Receives Order for Electrical Components for Wind Turbines

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, today announced that it has received a $450 million order from Beijing-based Sinovel Wind Corporation Limited for core electrical components for 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines.

10 Jun 2008

Suntech Power Introduces BIPV Products to the European Market

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the world's leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced it will introduce its Just Roof(TM), Light Thru(TM) and QuikSnap building integrated PV (BIPV) products from Suntech's MSK Solar Design Line(TM) to the European market at the upcoming Intersolar Technology Trade Fair 2008. Intersolar will be held from June 12-14, 2008 at The New Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany

10 Jun 2008

Cooperative Effort Urging Congress to Revisit Nation's Food-to-Fuel Policies

Today, the Food Before Fuel Campaign - a partnership of more than 20 environmental, retail, hunger, Hispanic and food industry groups - launched a cooperative effort urging Congress to revisit the nation's food-to-fuel policies, a key factor in the growing global food crisis.

10 Jun 2008

Amtech Systems Receives New Solar Orders

Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., has received $8.5 million in new solar orders for its diffusion processing systems.

10 Jun 2008

DuPont Expands Production of Solamet to Support Fast-Growing PV Market

To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont today announced that it will expand production of DuPont(TM) Solamet(R) thick film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD) facility here.

10 Jun 2008

Duke Energy Plans to Install Solar Panels at up to 850 North Carolina Sites

Duke Energy Carolinas is proposing a $100 million plan to install electricity generating solar panels at up to 850 North Carolina sites including homes, schools, stores and factories.

10 Jun 2008

Largest Residential Solar Electric System Still Standing After Tornado

Bella Energy, a Louisville, Colorado-based solar energy company serving the Rocky Mountain Region, found that one of their systems, the largest residential solar electric system in Colorado, is still standing after a Class F3 tornado blew through Northern Colorado last week. Tornados are rated 1-5, with 5 being the strongest.

9 Jun 2008