Porsche announced that it will build the 918 hybrid supercar based upon “overwhelming response from the public and customers”. The hybrid car will cost about $600,000, but Porsche promises customers that the new car will have exceptional performance along with stellar fuel economy and emissions. Porsche says the 918 will do: 500-horsepower, 78-mpg, 9,200-rpm 3.4-liter [...]
Electric cars will roll out later this year, maybe they are the future of cars, but some in Congress are thinking much more aggressively, for example the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this week passed a bill that would give $3.9 billion to cities to build electric car infrastructure. The goal is to electrify [...]
Google has announced on its blog that the company has bought 20-year green power with a windfarm in Iowa. The deal includes 114 megawatts of wind power from the NextEra Energy Resources facility in Story County, Iowa, and this power is thought to be enough to supply some of the Google Data Centers’ needs. Since [...]
Water conservation long has been an integral part of Ford’s overall sustainability strategy, and today it is the focus of some 600 Ford employees and retirees in the Ford Volunteer Corp as they join with non-profit partners to tackle water and environmental projects at more than a dozen locations. More than $60,000 in mini-grants was [...]
The world’s favorite premium rum — BACARDI — now has the power of wind behind it. Bacardi Corporation, part of the Bacardi Limited group of companies, and home to the largest premium rum distillery in the world, today unveiled the largest wind turbine installation in Puerto Rico designed to harness natural wind energy to help [...]
The Walmart Foundation has issued a grant of $500,000 to help Veterans Green Jobs, a Colorado nonprofit organization, boost its job creation and training programs in the green jobs field. This is the second year in a row the Walmart Foundation has funded Veterans Green Jobs, with grants totaling $1,249,000 since 2008. As a result [...]
Novelis Inc., the global leader in aluminum rolled products and aluminum can recycling, today announced that it recycled an estimated 40 billion used beverage cans in 2009. The company’s focus on beverage can recycling saved more than 76 trillion BTUs of energy in the last year alone – the equivalent of more than 13 million [...]
