Renewable Energy | Solar Photovoltaic Wind Biomass | Feed-in Tariff http://sunfeed.net Renewable Energy News Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 top 100 green eco talk http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/top-100-green-eco-talk/ http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/top-100-green-eco-talk/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:43 +0000 sunfeed http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/top-100-green-eco-talk/ I have noticed a great rise of new buzzing eco talk in the studio here, so much so I thought it would be fun to write them down and post them on our blog here. See if you know them all – I bet you don’t (bear in mind we are enormously inventive so I am pretty sure that some of these eco terms are a spur-of-the-moment fabricated designer lingua franca)

Eco – Green and Sustainable have become everyday words mixed into our typical “designer” dialogues. So after taken some straightforward (during lunch-time scribble) notes here is my top 100 eco words we use in our design studio. (My initial idea was to compose a top 25, but I was completely overwhelmed by the amount and regularity of the modern green language we all employ, so it turned out a top 100 in the end).  

  1. biomass
  2. carbon footprint
  3. carbon offset
  4. carbon-dioxide impact
  5. chlorine free
  6. climate change
  7. conservation
  8. corporate ethics
  9. DALI
  10. daylighting
  11. design disassembly
  12. dioxins
  13. DIP
  14. eco assessment
  15. eco benchmark
  16. eco blogging
  17. eco chic
  18. eco design | green design
  19. eco development
  20. eco dynamic
  21. eco exhibit
  22. eco freak
  23. eco guru
  24. eco ingredients
  25. eco innovation
  26. eco logo
  27. eco minded
  28. eco minimalism
  29. eco responsible
  30. eco smart
  31. eco technologies
  32. eco value
  33. eco warrior
  34. ecocert
  35. ecological architecture
  36. ecological footprint
  37. ecological housing
  38. ecology
  39. electrosmog
  40. EMS
  41. environmentalism
  42. environmentally compliant
  43. environmentally friendly
  44. E-Waste 
  45. fair trade
  46. fairly sourced
  47. fiber glass
  48. going green
  49. green deco
  50. green initiatives
  51. green living
  52. green museum design
  53. green philosophy
  54. green tech
  55. greenhouse effect
  56. greeny
  57. haute green
  58. house wrap
  59. hydroelectric energy
  60. incandescent lamps
  61. LED
  62. life cycle assessment
  63. life cycle design
  64. life cycle impact
  65. light pollution
  66. low toxins
  67. natural flair
  68. organic
  69. packaging waste
  70. paper free
  71. passive building design
  72. photovoltaic panels
  73. re:modern
  74. recyclability
  75. recycle
  76. Re-define
  77. reduce heat gain
  78. reducing energy
  79. remanufacturing
  80. remodernist
  81. renewable energy
  82. renewable materials
  83. responsibly sourced
  84. reuse
  85. R-value
  86. self-sufficient
  87. self-sustaining
  88. shop green
  89. social impact
  90. solar energy
  91. strategic eco design
  92. sustainable design
  93. sustainable development
  94. sustainable energy
  95. unbleached
  96. urban eco
  97. well-being
  98. wind turbines
  99. windpower
  100. zero waste

 

Believe it or not, I actually had oodles more written down, but let’s just leave it here for now (I am running out of time). It is rather amazing how much the eco & green keywords have risen in our daily yak.

As for me – I am about to go into a meeting  … let’s see how many eco words I’ll weave into my pitch a bit later. (a rub of green might be needed)

Tamara De Schepper

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]]> http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/dominion-virginia-power-proposes-new-rate-to-promote-solar-electricity-use/feed/ 0 3MW solar project in Connecticut gets final green light from zoning board http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/3mw-solar-project-in-connecticut-gets-final-green-light-from-zoning-board/ http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/3mw-solar-project-in-connecticut-gets-final-green-light-from-zoning-board/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:31 +0000 sunfeed http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/3mw-solar-project-in-connecticut-gets-final-green-light-from-zoning-board/ The proposed 3MW, US$20 million Ponterril solar project has received its final needed approval from the zoning board of appeals. The project will be developed across 22 acres of what used to be the Pittsfield Family YMCA’s recreation camp overlooking Pontoosuc Lake. The Berkshire Eagle advised that electricity produced by the project would be sold and transported to Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECO) as part of the power gird on North Street. The report confirmed that project officials want to begin work on the project this year, but actual construction timelines will depend on WMECO since it needs to advise what it would cost CTC Electric to make upgrades to the WMECO system in order for it to accept electricity from the new solar project.

]]> http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/3mw-solar-project-in-connecticut-gets-final-green-light-from-zoning-board/feed/ 0 Solar Gard completes second assessment of its environmental impact from related to its products http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/solar-gard-completes-second-assessment-of-its-environmental-impact-from-related-to-its-products/ http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/solar-gard-completes-second-assessment-of-its-environmental-impact-from-related-to-its-products/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:29 +0000 sunfeed http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/solar-gard-completes-second-assessment-of-its-environmental-impact-from-related-to-its-products/ Solar Gard has finished its second Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), which examines the environmental impact of a product from production to disposal . The latest EPD covers 14 more solar control architectural window films, bringing the company’s total number of carbon negative window films to 46.

]]> http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/solar-gard-completes-second-assessment-of-its-environmental-impact-from-related-to-its-products/feed/ 0 PV Crystalox to receive €90 million cash settlement over terminated wafer supply deal http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/pv-crystalox-to-receive-e90-million-cash-settlement-over-terminated-wafer-supply-deal/ http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/pv-crystalox-to-receive-e90-million-cash-settlement-over-terminated-wafer-supply-deal/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:28 +0000 sunfeed http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/pv-crystalox-to-receive-e90-million-cash-settlement-over-terminated-wafer-supply-deal/ PV Crystalox Solar advised that it had reached a cash settlement over a terminated wafer supply deal that amounts to €90 million. The funds will be recognized as income in the first half of this year and, according to proactiveinvestors, the news saw the company’s value more than double.

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]]> http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/gt-advanced-technologies-to-begin-manufacturing-furnaces-that-produce-silicon-carbide-crystals/feed/ 0 Concerns of Chinese retaliation colour CASM’s victory http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/concerns-of-chinese-retaliation-colour-casms-victory/ http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/concerns-of-chinese-retaliation-colour-casms-victory/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 02:01:25 +0000 sunfeed http://sunfeed.net/2012/05/concerns-of-chinese-retaliation-colour-casms-victory/ Earlier this month, Chinese vice premier Wang Qishan and state councillor Dai Bingguo met with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, in Beijing to discuss Sino-American strategic and economic relations. On May 17, the US Department of Commerce announced in a preliminary hearing that China had been exporting to the US at less than fair value.

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