Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) has partnered with Green Shipping to offer an exceptional web service which enables both individuals and businesses to offset current carbon emissions that are naturally discharged from utilizing their shipping services. These days, shipping is certainly not green from any standpoint because of wasted paper, CO2 production from machinery, commercial…

The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation has granted $681,875 in renewable energy funds to 17 regional projects; the largest lump sum offered through the Renewable Energy Fund since the EDC took over endowment responsibilities a year before. Fourteen of the seventeen cash grants will be dedicated toward practicability studies of wind turbines…

Last year, Snohomish County Public Utility District in Washington State purchased a miniature dam – measuring 6 feet in length and 35 feet wide – which provides renewable energy to hundreds of homes near Monroe. The project was so lucrative that the public utility has elected to construct more micro hydro dams throughout the district in upper reaches of streams and creeks. The group has said they would like to build as many as ten new dams in the next ten years to help supply a significant and reliable source of green energy…

In this rapidly accelerating renewable energy industry, growth stocks are becoming a savior of sorts for investors in the otherwise stagnant stock market. However, these growth stocks are somewhat unpredictable in the market; venture capitalists quickly invest lofty amounts of cash into these growing stocks, but any slight chance of slowdown will cause these investors to pull their cash and run. The most important research in determining which stocks are the most beneficial for long-term…

In a new initiative set forth by the U.S. Department of Energy, Sacramento County will receive almost $5 million in funding to develop alternative energy projects. The funds are part of the $787 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act commenced by President Barack Obama and set up to include Sacramento, Citrus Heights, Davis, Elk Grove, Folsom, Lincoln, Rancho Cordova, Rocklin, Roseville, West Sacramento and Woodland. Local Indian tribes are also cashing in on this renewable energy…