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Climate Change & the Valley

What's the impact of climate change on local companies and the local economy? What innovations exist, or are on the drawing board, that could drive business sustainability?These are the questions that the WEST 2012 Summit will ponder at Santa…See More
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Is this San Jose's first LEED-certified restaurant?

Rumor has it: A new green Chick-fil-A is coming to San Jose (the closest one in the Bay Area is in Fairfield). After the successful opening of a LEED Gold restaurant in Fort Worth in December 2011, the company is coming out with four more LEED Chick-fil-As in 2012.See More
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Conservation success story? Not quite.

An Earth Day treat: watching northern elephant seal pups being cared for at Marin's Marine Mammal Center, caterwauling in their pens, eating, splashing in the pools. A…See More
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Climate Change & the Valley

What's the impact of climate change on local companies and the local economy? What innovations exist, or are on the drawing board, that could drive business sustainability?

These are the questions that the WEST 2012 Summit will ponder at Santa Clara University on May 24. Bringing together thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers from business, government and NGOs, the summit aims to forge "a new vision" to make Silicon Valley more resilient to the…

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Posted by Katharine Fong on May 15, 2012 at 7:08pm

Is this San Jose's first LEED-certified restaurant?

Rumor has it: A new green Chick-fil-A is coming to San Jose (the closest one in the Bay Area is in Fairfield). After the successful opening of a LEED Gold restaurant in Fort Worth in December 2011, the company is coming out with four more LEED Chick-fil-As in 2012.

Posted by Katharine Fong on May 11, 2012 at 2:14pm

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Printed revolution coming to electronics technology

Following years of hype and development, technologies that allow chips and other electronic components to be made using techniques akin to inkjet printing -- rather than by lithography or other standard methods -- may finally be reaching maturity.

Apple's data center will be completely green by 2013, company says

Apple plans to power its main U.S. data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms.

Shift by U.S. muddles solar imports case

Renewable energy companies around the world are awaiting a decision Thursday by the U.S. Commerce Department on whether to impose anti-dumping tariffs on solar panels imported from China, as a little-noticed policy shift by the department last year has made the outcome of the case unusually hard to predict.

2 Greenpeace members arrested at Apple HQ after protest featuring iPhone costumes

A protest at Apple headquarters over the tech giant's energy practices featured full-sized iPhone costumes and ended Tuesday morning with the arrests of two people who locked themselves inside a small dome, authorities said.

Solar industry, utilities clash over proposal to change the way "net metering" is calculated

Proposal by CPUC president Michael Peevey would raise the cap beyond the current 5 percent

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