Posts Tagged "renewable energy"

Vote for TerraPass in TreeHugger Best of Green contest!

  • March 22, 2011
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We're proud to have been nominated by TreeHugger for a Best of Green award in the Travel and Nature category. This year TreeHugger is allowing readers to vote for their favorites. Please help us out with a few quick clicks! **First, head over to TreeHugger and vote for TerraPass as best carbon offset provider!** **Next, if you're a Twitter user,… read more →

Project spotlight: Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy

I suspect most of us spent this past Sunday participating, albeit virtually, in that annual American ritual otherwise known as the Super Bowl. With the newly crowned Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers back at home in Wisconsin, it’s a good time to revisit the second-most important fact about Green Bay: it’s a mere 25 miles from Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy,… read more →

Offshore wind getting some backbone

Google and a renewable electricity investment company are investing in an offshore, 350-mile long high-voltage transmission line off the coast of New Jersey, with spurs making landfall in Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, and just outside of New York City. Each company is in it for about $200 million, which is about 75% of the total investment. New transmission lines aren't… read more →

Recovery Act creating a new energy economy

It may not be the most popular term to throw around these days, but the $787 billion stimulus package passed in the early days of the Obama administration is still handing out dollars, and has the potential to transform how we use and store energy in this country. Two-thirds of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was devoted to avoiding a… read more →