Eco-Friendly and Patient Friendly Are Newest Trends in Healthcare.  In this video we are remined that while hospitals make up only four percent of the country’s total building population, they  consume eight percent of the energy.  Here is a solution, a hospital so green it is the platinum standard.

MIT’s Technology Review predicts that the U.S. will surpass Germany as the world’s largest market for solar power.
Growth in the U.S. will likely be spurred on by the decreasing cost of solar panels and installation, and the continuing and increasing federal and state incentives. The federal stimulus package funding, for example, will be felt in 2010 and so will tax credits for solar investment for utilities.
Some experts, however, think that the case for growth of large solar projects in the next few years may be a bit too rosy.

Some think it’s funny; some think it’s the worst Super Bowl commercial of the bunch. It seems funnier the second time around.

After nearly a year of negotiations with the state’s utility companies, Massachusetts officials announced a set of new energy efficiency standards on Friday in what is anticipated to be the most ambitious plan in the nation.

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued an interpretive release on Wednesday in an attempt to offer guidance to public companies regarding the need to  disclose the impact of environmental legislation and regulation on their businesses.

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At a time when the US is pushing for wind and solar power, a surprising move took place in Germany, one of the forerunners in the solar market.
Reuters announced that ” Germany on Wednesday slashed subsidies for solar power in a move to ease the world’s largest solar market towards free competition, drawing howls of protest from panel manufacturers.
“Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen set out a 15 percent cut in so-called feed-in tariffs for new roof-mounted solar power from April, confirming figures reported earlier by Reuters.

Pratt & Whitney’s new generation jet engine got a boost last week from the Obama Administration. In the Administration’s $2.3 billion tax credit package for clean tech is a $110 million tax credit for P&W to retool the factory that will produce the new engine.

We are all so caught up in major change to protect the environment that we may be overlooking some practical solutions. Green energy gadgets are playing a major role in the Consumer Electronics Show featuring some inexpensive items to help us all ‘grow greener.’

Codexis Inc., a Redwood City, CA biotech company, filed a registration statement on Monday for an initial public offering to raise up to $100 million.
Codexis develops “biocatalysts that make industrial processes faster, cleaner and more efficient than current processes.”  The company focuses on the conversion of renewable resources into biofuels and pharmaceuticals. It partners with Shell, Merck, Pfizer and Teva. Pfizer uses Codexis’s technology to produce Lipitor® (for which Codexis won the EPA Green Chemistry Award in 2006).
This is not the first time Codexis entered into the IPO world. …

Exxon Mobil announced today that is buying XTO in an all stock transaction valued at $41 billion. The agreement which requires shareholder approval represents a 25 percent premium for XTO shareholders and includes $10 billion of existing XTO debt.
Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil’s CEO, quoted in the press release, describes XTO as “a leading U.S. unconventional natural gas producer, with an outstanding resource base, strong technical expertise and highly skilled employees.”  Tillerson further states that ” XTO’s strengths, together with Exxon Mobil’s advanced R&D and operational capabilities, global scale and financial …