Green Reading This Week: On Mergers, Bio Fuel, Sustainable Buildings, Politics and Carbon Capture

Harvest Power to Cross $100M in Revenue This Year, As First Energy Plants Start Up – Boston Business Journal
Local Boston biofuel start-up hits a major milestone. I had the pleasure of meeting their CEO at Harvard’s Energy Conference a few years back – neat company!

Creating Sustainable Buildings is Like Making a Souffle – Forbes
Our team loved this analogy by Emma Stewart, Head of Sustainability Solutions at Autodesk. One of our engineers said his favorite quote was, “Just as a soufflé famously deflates over time, a building’s performance will do so if the operator does not constantly fine-tune it.” Very elegant!

Shell to Test Capturing of Carbon in Canada – NYTimes Green Blog
Shell is moving forward on the first carbon capturing and storage project in Western Canada’s oil sands.

CEO of Nation’s Largest Power Company Gives a Thumbs Up to Obama on Energy – US Green Technology
New source for me – do any of you read them regularly? The Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, a business person and energy industry person whose opinion I personally pay attention to, went on CNN to talk about Obama’s Energy Plan. Worth a read.

Green Merger: Method Bought by Ecover – Inc
Uniting US and European Green Cleaning Brands. I almost always buy Method – Love it!

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