Under pressure from greens, Amazon Web Services – the online retail giant’s market-leading cloud business – is moving to clean up its carbon act. AWS on Tuesday announced it would buy power under a 13-year contract from a wind farm that Pattern Energy will build in Indiana. The way some companies pay to get stadiums… Keep reading →
Walmart’s green platform – headlined by the “aspiration” to source 100 percent of its energy from renewables – got major play last month when President Obama used a solar-panel-festooned California store as a backdrop to promote his own efforts to boost clean power and energy efficiency. But just ahead of the visit, former Labor secretary… Keep reading →
It was No. 2 on Indiegogo’s list of “7 campaigns that will make the world a little (or a lot) better” late last week – right after Jet Ski for Goats – but Solar Roadways was No. 1 in grabbing the cash. The concept that proposes to replace the nation’s paved surfaces with solar panels… Keep reading →
