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Thursday 03.11.2010

• Operations boss leaves McCormick & Schmick’s
• Ecoroof industry ready to sprout [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• SunPower gets $1.5M in research grants (San Jose) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Kane honored by Fast Company as a sustainable food leader [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• RadiSys buys Pactolus Communications Software
• Susan Sokol Blosser runs for Oregon House
• Survey: Power companies still unsure of smart grids [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Ceres releases road map for sustainable businesses [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Feds tell Albina Bank to boost capital levels
• NEEA receives EPA sustained exellence award [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Super Supplements coming to downtown
• Les Schwab Tire to pay $2M in discrimination case
• A123 Systems to make batteries for Navistar (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Icebreaker rolls out plastic-free packaging [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Phil Knight drops to No. 62 on list of world's richest people
• Google adds bike directions (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]

Wednesday 03.10.2010

• Siemens Energy to expand (Charlotte) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Chinese silicon manufacturer coming to San Francisco [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Carter drops out of chair’s race
• Portland adopts new ‘green’ regulations [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Regence buys Washington's Kinetix Living Corp.
• Kulongoski signs new laws [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• SAIF to return $100M to customers
• First Tech Credit Union to merge with California peer
• Panera to post calorie counts
• GT Solar prices $121M secondary stock offering (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Kulongoski signs new laws
• 16 states add 50,000+ to jobless rolls
• Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. offers to buy British counterpart (Kansas City) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Solazyme and Unilever collaborate on algae-based products (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Anitian Enterprise Security expands
• UO Index: Economy continues to improve
• BofA ending debit-card overdraft fees
• Efficiency is your best energy investment [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]

Tuesday 03.09.2010

• Pinball Publishing bucks an industry in decline [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Stanford, IBM getting closer to 'green' plastic (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• MAX ridership up overall in February [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• MAX ridership up overall in February
• Report: Acquisitions ahead for Schnitzer Steel
• The Hallock Agency hires CEO
• McDermott, Fluor in carbon capture venture (Houston) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Cogen, Carter seek to be county chair
• County commission seat attracts a pack
• ActiveTrack gets funding
• Former Treasurer Hill joins race for treasurer
• Oregon nearly whiffs on green tech list
• General Growth adds $3.9B to Brookfield plan
• Profits fall, but Kroger beats 4Q estimates
• SAIC gets $21M biomass contract (Washington, D.C.) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• KB Home offers pre-wired homes for EV owners (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• EPA ‘lost the messaging war’ (Portfolio.com) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Wheeler named interim treasurer

Monday 03.08.2010

• Oregon nurseries sue S. Carolina
• Pacific Ethanol enters new debt agreement [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Oregon has just one on top 50 green startup list [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Pacific Ethanol enters new debt agreement
• Nautilus to incur $13M charge to shed commercial business
• Metsger plans treasury run
• City of Houston expands RecycleBank program [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Columbia Sportswear opens Chicago store
• Lee withdraws from Multnomah County race
• Phishing scam snares Cascade Bank customers
• Conference Board employment index prompts hope that job growth is near
• First net-zero school coming to Kentucky [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• AMSC wind components get $10M Chinese order (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Sustainable design's future is the Pacific Northwest's present [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]
• DeltaPoint wins $170K at Angel Oregon
• Commercial solar: ROI better, financing still tough (Phoenix) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Wells Fargo clean-tech group lends $350M (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Clean tech forms new relationships with China (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Akeena goes national with retail-ready solar panels (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Affiliated Computer Services to hire 190
• Politics, cost holding back green progress (Jacksonville) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Georgia Tech building $23M energy lab (Atlanta) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Solaria goes round two with new technology, CEO (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Researchers study weather’s effect on solar panels (Phoenix) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Silicon Valley cities fear PG&E power play [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• West Ohau project pushes net-zero energy envelope (Honolulu) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Tax fix sought for energy programs in Ohio [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Duke invests in energy storage company (Charlotte) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Solar companies seek help from Md. law (Baltimore) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Demand grows for battery and fuel-cell tech (Albany) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Chinese solar companies see bright future in U.S. (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]

Sunday 03.07.2010

• Treasurer Westlund dies at age 60

Friday 03.05.2010

• University bonds set for April issue
• EPA honors Food Lion chain (Charlotte) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Colorado Senate advances higher renewable-energy standard (Denver) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Tom Harmon Logging files for Chapter 11 [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• U.S. Chamber executive discusses energy issues (Phoenix) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Tom Harmon Logging files for Chapter 11
• Blount sales creep up, shares near 52-week high
• Japan signs smart-grid accords with New Mexico [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• NW purchasing manager optimism drops in February
• Rainier Pacific shares off NASDAQ March 11
• Treasurer Westlund names new chief of staff
• Alternative fuel evangelism (Portfolio.com) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• U.S. unemployment holds at 9.7 percent
• Merkley, Pryor propose efficiency renovation program [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• International Paper launches environmental site (Memphis) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Doing something about the weather [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]

Thursday 03.04.2010

• Powell's to move Tech Store
• Biofuels companies ask Congress for tax credit [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• New law targets older biomass plants [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Low snow pack hurts Seattle City Light [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• New law targets older biomass plants
• Google opens energy management API (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Connected Platforms buys a Montana company
• Profit eludes Mentor Graphics again
• Macy’s sales take 4% jump in February
• DoveLewis expands to Oregon Coast
• Reser’s recalls contaminated products
• Home Depot getting greener (Atlanta) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Wells Fargo CEO got $21.3M in 2009
• State loses bid for $200M education grant
• Jobless rates rose in every state in '09
• Nike names new general counsel
• Nordstrom February same-store sales up 10 percent
• NCAA basketball goes green (Phoenix) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Kyocera Solar picks San Diego for first U.S. plant [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Investors bullish on clean tech (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• General Growth Properties gets court extension on reorganization
• Hybrid Ferrari debuts [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]

Wednesday 03.03.2010

• Cantwell demands investigation of NOAA’s planned move to Oregon
• Zumiez February sales jump
• Oregon man charged with illegal money transfers
• Sungevity introduces solar lease program (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• S4 Energy Solutions plans Columbia Gorge project [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Company plans 'green' energy plant
• Breeding a new kind of restaurant [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Clear One offers holistic coverage
• Vornado interested in General Growth
• Waytronx expects record Q4
• SRI wins $4.5M carbon capture study contract (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• NFIB taps Realtor as state director
• $20M LED manfacturing plant planned in Texas (Austin) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Employee engagement matters more than ever [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]
• Anti-gun group targets Starbucks
• Costco Q2 revenue, earnings rise
• Continental to sell extra legroom seats
• Corvallis banker to chair area federal bank
• West Coast Bancorp raises $10 million
• Oregon Wal-Mart supplier sold
• Lattice raises guidance
• ShopIgniter lands $3 million in venture capital

Tuesday 03.02.2010

• Tokyo solar company plans Oregon manufacturing plant [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Pacific Power seeks 20.1% rate hike [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Japanese company to build solar crucible plant
• Nordstrom rewards executives with bonuses
• Lewis & Clark professor to challenge Wyden
• Washington unemployment rate rises to 9.3 percent
• Pacific Power seeks 20.1% rate hike
• Renewable-energy mandate could create 23,000 jobs in Colorado [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Gannett lifts wage freeze
• Postal Service outlines sweeping changes
• Metro, counties finalize urban-rural planning agreements [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• General Growth seeks return to NYSE
• DOE announces $100M in funding for energy projects [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Regional HUD director sworn in
• Timbers make Golub COO
• Yingli lands 10 MW supply contract (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• New $90M fund will extend SolarCity programs (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Oregon’s unemployment rate stabilizes
• CarePayment names new CEO
• PGE plans 'Northwest's largest' rooftop solar project [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Columbia Sportswear launches phone site
• PGE plans 'Northwest's largest' rooftop solar project

Monday 03.01.2010

• Nuclear plant design sparks buzz (Seattle) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Kauffman Foundation clean-tech network seeks fast path to market [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• PG&E will miss renewable power mandate (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Stimulus regs slow flow of cash for Maryland [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Study: Biofuels could boost farm income by $13B (Research Triangle Park) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• PDC earmarks startup funds [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• North Pacific seeks approval to sell more assets [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• New improved Greenprint lands city contract [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• North Pacific seeks approval to sell more assets
• County Chair Wheeler gets second challenger
• Nautilus Q4 sales fall
• SolarWorld acquires stake in Qatar solar producer
• PDC earmarks startup funds
• What Oregon needs: The features of a state energy policy [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]
• SolarWorld acquires stake in Qatar solar producer [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• County gets HUD funding for safer homes
• Texas researchers develop cheap, synthetic fuel (Dallas) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Kontane Logistics to be Daimler Trucks supplier
• Tesla, TAG Heuer in limited edition car partnership (San Jose) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• January chip sales up 47.2% worldwide
• Ritz-Carlton goes green (Charlotte) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Ecotality gets $300 million credit line (Phoenix) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Columbia Sportswear appoints president of subsidiary
• Solutia to buy Etimex Solar for $325M (St. Louis) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Bloom Energy fuel cells could power jobs (San Jose) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Irrigation controls address the water problem (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Too much clean energy overpowers Hawaiian grid (Honolulu) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Orlando firms to vie for $10M in solar work [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Green building grows despite economic climate (Charlotte) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Umpqua buys another failed Washington bank
• Dish Network Q4 profit down 18%; subscribers up

Friday 02.26.2010

• Nike rolls out green World Cup jerseys [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• The business case for the Oregon Sustainability Center [Sustainable Business Oregon - Columnists]
• Cowlitz Bank gets FDIC warning
• PUC OKs Verizon transfer
• Washington wind farm gets $28.6M in stimulus funds (Seattle) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• PG&E: Electric rates could drop 2.5% (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Chipotle launches solar effort (Orlando) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Eid Passport expands suit against Intellicheck Mobilisa
• Nautilus sells more assets
• Beer byproducts tapped for brewery power (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Arizona nuke bill killed (Phoenix) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• NW Natural reports record earnings in 2009 [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• North Pacific gets court OK to sell assets [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• City Club: Put Metro in charge of transportation [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• North Pacific gets court OK to sell assets
• NW Natural reports record earnings in 2009
• Register-Guard lays off 14
• Thomas H. Lee Partners to buy CKE
• Tesla offers leasing program (Silicon Valley) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Metro, counties finalize urban-rural planning agreements
• Unlicensed tax preparer indicted
• Leopold Ketel names new president
• OEN chooses six companies to compete for $175,000
• ESI appoints board member
• Charges push Safeway to $1.61B Q4 loss

Thursday 02.25.2010

• Kettle Foods to be sold for $615 million [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Dick Bogle dies at 79
• Kettle Foods to be sold for $615 million
• Wells Fargo boosts retirement offerings
• Annual sessions bill headed to voters
• California governor race key to U.S. climate change policy [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• Companies get $17M stimulus contract for solar (Denver) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• GT Solar lands $200M in contracts (Boston) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• CalStar raises $15 million for growth (Milwaukee) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• PGE reports 60 percent drop in Q4 earnings [Sustainable Business Oregon - Articles]
• Cleantech Open to merge with Boston's ICE (San Francisco) [Sustainable Business Oregon - National News]
• AIG to repay $8 million in PERS losses
• United finalizes $4.2B Boeing 787 order
• PGE reports 60 percent drop in Q4 earnings