- December 28, 2006
Wal-Mart Pledges to Sell 100 Million Compact Fluorescents in '07: "Nov. 30, 2006 - Wal-Mart has announced an ambitious campaign to sell 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) at its Wal-Mart and Sam's Club locations by the end of 2007. .. WalMart's Ruben added. "Over the life of those bulbs, $3 billion can be saved in electrical costs and 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gases can be prevented from entering our atmosphere. This change is comparable to taking 700,000..
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/28.html#a3417
- December 28, 2006
Joel Makower commercializes greenbiz.com: The green info market matures. "I've just launched a for-profit media company, Greener World Media, which has taken over publishing of GreenBiz.com, et al, from their nonprofit home, the esteemed National Environmental Education & Training Foundation, where the sites had lived happily for the past five years.Why a for-profit In 1998-99, when the idea for GreenBiz.com was germinating, there was no business model for giving away...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/28.html#a3416
- December 28, 2006
Wal-Mart's Solar Energy Vision: Joel Mackower reports on Wal-Mart's "recently issued RFP, or request for proposal, to install solar energy systems on its stores in five states -- the largest procurement of solar ever proposed. Bids are due on January 5 .. Wal-Mart intends to notify the winner of the contract on February 28. ..The confidential RFP document is part of the company's stated commitment "to reduce our overall greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over the next eight years" and.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/27.html#a3415
- December 28, 2006
FT.com - Richest 2% hold half the world's assets: "Personal wealth is distributed so unevenly across the world that the richest two per cent of adults own more than 50 per cent of the world&146;s assets while the poorest half hold only 1 per cent of wealth .. according to the data from the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-Wider). ..Adults with more than $2,200 of assets were in the top half of the global wealth league table, while...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/27.html#a3414
- December 28, 2006
Global Voices Online: Interesting compilation of current blog material from citizens of many counties, including Lebanon, Libya, China, Iran, with coverage of local news. Would provide interesting inputs to the "open source intelligence" movement.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/27.html#a3413
- December 28, 2006
Inflated influence of India's IT-factor:
"In 2003, for example, India claimed to have exported US$8.7 billion
worth of software, most of which went to the United States. But US
companies recorded just US$420 million worth of software imports from
India &151; a remarkable 20-fold difference. The GAO believes that this huge inconsistency arises, in part, from
India misreporting financial data. For instance, India counts the
earnings of all temporary workers in the United States as...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/27.html#a3412
- December 26, 2006
Small car 'Reva' gets big funds: "Venture funds are now seeing value beyong hot wireless and internet companies in India. India&146;s first and only electric car manufacturer, REVA Electric Car Company, has attracted a $ 20 m investment from Draper Fisher Jurveston, Global Environment Fund (GEF) and Mellon HBV Master Global Event Drive Fund LP, according to officials. The company, which is joint venture between the Bangalore-based Maini group and the California-based AEV LLC, is...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/26.html#a3411
- December 26, 2006
Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options Toward Iran by former CIA official Flynt L. Leverett, The Century Foundation, 1242006. An op-ed version of this was blocked from publication by the CIA. It "lays out the essential features of a U.S.-Iranian grand bargain. If Washington does not begin to pursue such an arrangement vigorously and soon, the window for this kind of strategic understanding between the United States and the Islamic Republic is likely to close. Under...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/26.html#a3410
- December 26, 2006
SoCal Edison to build massive wind farm: US wind projects scale up. "Southern California Edison on Thursday announced a deal with an Australian firm to build the largest wind energy facility ever built by a U.S. utility. "This is triple anything that's ever been done. It's enormous," said Stuart Hemphill, director of renewable and alternative power for the Rosemead-based utility that supplies power to much of the Coachella Valley. The 20-year contract, to purchase power from a...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/26.html#a3409
- December 26, 2006
WaterHealth International Closes Series C Funding: "WaterHealth International, Inc. (WHI)
today announced the final close of its Series C funding for a total
equity investment of more than $11 million. SAIL Venture Partners,
L.P., anchored the latest investment of $4 million. Series A investor
Plebys International LLC, founded and led by WHI CEO Tralance Addy,
also invested in this round. The new investments are in addition to
the $7.25 million equity investment anchored.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2006/12/26.html#a3408
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