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The Ohio State University and the University of Waterloo
Finish Second and Third
Washington (June 17, 2011) – Students from Virginia Tech University learned last night that their teamwork, perseverance and hard work have led to top honors when they were named the overall winners of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge after designing and building an exceptional extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) using E85 (ethanol).
Throughout the three-year competition, the Virginia Tech team hit incremental goals that helped the vehicle achieve fuel efficiency of 81.9 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent, or 70 percent over the stock vehicle, positioning them above the rest. Virginia Tech’s EREV out-performed its competitors earlier this month when it was put through a series of safety and technical tests at GM’s Proving Ground in Milford, Mich., tests similar to those conducted on GM production vehicles.
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Can Energy Efficiency Help You Get a Job?
June 14, 2011 - White House Blog - Back in February, President Obama asked the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to help lead the Better Buildings Initiative to make American businesses more competitive by saving them about $40 billion per year in energy costs. The first question the Jobs Council asked, of course, was exactly how many jobs we were talking about here?
As of today, the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst released an independent study projecting that the Better Buildings Initiative would create more than 114,000 jobs – half of which would come from a new tax credit for building energy upgrades that the President proposed to Congress in his 2012 budget. That would mean new jobs for people like contractors, sheet metal workers, engineers, and architects.
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ScottishPower Renewables Becomes the First Developer in the UK to Achieve 1 GW of Capacity From Wind Power
June 16, 2011 - ScottishPower Renewables (SPR), part of the world’s largest wind power company Iberdrola*, has become the first developer in the UK to achieve one gigawatt (GW) of electricity production capacity from wind power. The milestone was achieved after the company officially opened Arecleoch (120MW) and Mark Hill (56MW) windfarms in South Ayrshire.
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CLIMATE CHANGE INVESTOR GROUPS PUBLISH REPORT ON GLOBAL
INVESTOR PRACTICES RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE
June 13, 2011 - Majority consider climate change a material investment risk/opportunity and incorporate climate change risk assessments into their existing investments; public policy a key driver of investment decisions
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (“IIGCC”), the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (“INCR”) and Australia/New Zealand Investor Group on Climate Change (“IGCC”) have today jointly published a report detailing the investment practices of asset managers, such as primary fund managers, and asset owners, such as pension funds, towards climate change issues.
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World Health Organization Says Cell Phones a Possible Cause of Cancer
May 31, 2011 - By Stacy Simon - American Cancer Society - The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization, has concluded that using cell phones may possibly cause cancer. The agency classifies exposure to radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields, which includes cell phone use, as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” Also in this category are gasoline exhaust and coffee.
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