Tag: GreenNumbers

  • Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/12/2010

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    Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: Iberdrola Renovables Buys Spain’s Largest Wind Park (Update1) – BusinessWeek Iberdrola Renovables SA, the world’s largest operator of wind parks, agreed to buy Spain’s largest wind farm from Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA. Renovables, based in Valencia, paid Gamesa 320 million euros ($441 million) for 244 megawatts of power…

  • Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/05/2010

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    Photo credit arekiiu Here is this week’s Friday Green numbers round-up: Scant Arctic ice could mean summer double whammy | Reuters Scant ice over the Arctic Sea this winter could mean a “double whammy” of powerful ice-melt next summer tags: greennumbers, arctic sea ice, arctic ice, ice melt Tibet temperatures hit record high in 2009…

  • Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 01/29/2010

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    U.S. pledges 17 percent emissions reduction by 2020 – washingtonpost.com The United States pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels under an international climate agreement, though it made its commitment contingent on passing legislation at home. […]

  • Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 01/22/2010

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    Here is this week’s Friday Green numbers round-up: Vice President Biden Kicks Off $7.2 Billion Recovery Act Broadband Program | BriefingRoom on Connected Planet Online Vice President Biden today kicked off $7.2 billion in Recovery Act broadband grant and loan programs, of which $2 billion will be made available on a rolling basis over the…

  • Friday’s Green Numbers round-up 01/15/2010

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    Photo credit arekiiu Here is today’s Friday Green numbers round-up: TVA purchasing up to 815MW wind power from Kansas and Illinois TVA has inked four deals to purchase wind power generated in Illinois and Kansas. The federal utility said today that the contracts will allow it to purchase up to 815 megawatts of renewable wind…

  • Green Numbers round-up 12/18/2009

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    Photo credit MildlyDiverting Welcome to this Friday’s Green numbers round-up! IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years: · […]