The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

Monday, April 05, 2004

From GREENBUZZ:

Taking Care of Business

Silicon Valley may be heating up as spring approaches, but the area's biggest tech-sector moneymakers kept their cool last week, announcing a ground-breaking coalition to fight global warming. Curious about ways your business can manage its climate risk? Visit AirHead.org, a user-friendly Web site offering emissions data on a variety of products and vehicles.

Also this week: Columnist Frank Dixon outlines a new approach to corporate social responsibility.

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Headlines
The Latest News on Business and the Environment

Diverse Group of Leaders Outlines Framework for Mandatory Climate Change Action
A mandatory greenhouse gas reduction program for the U.S. could be both effective and politically feasible, according to a diverse group of business, government, and environmental leaders brought together by the Aspen Institute and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

Silicon Valley Firms Unite to Promote Sustainability, Fight Global Warming
A coalition of major Silicon Valley companies has announced an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to collectively combat global warming, one of the first such business collaborations in the U.S.

Philips Extends Sustainability Expectations to Suppliers
Royal Philips Electronics has released the company's second annual sustainability report, which extends the company's sustainability principles to Philips' 50.000 suppliers.

Clif Bar CEO Honored for Environmental Leadership
Clif Bar Inc. owner and CEO Gary Erickson is Global Green USA's recipient of the 2004 Green Cross Millennium Award for Corporate Environmental Leadership, recognizing his company's efforts to use renewable energy, eco-friendly packaging and organic ingredients.

New Guide Reveals Rich Opportunities with World's Poorest Customers
A just-released guide explores how several companies are starting to break into an untapped market of over four billion potential customers in ways that benefit both the poor and the company.

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Resources and Tools
A Wealth of Hands-On Help

AirHead.org
Managers looking for ways to spare the air can spend a few productive minutes exploring this Web site, which offers emissions data on a variety of products and vehicles.

How to Press Printers to Reduce Waste, Emissions, and Costs
Practical tips for greening your friendly local printer.

Environmental Mentoring: Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities
How companies can receive low-cost assistance in implementing environmental management systems through mentoring programs.

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Columns and Features
Insight and Inspiration from the Experts

Total Corporate Responsibility: Making SRI and CSR Sustainable
Introducing "total corporate responsibility," a new form of CSR focused on promoting system changes that hold firms fully responsible. By Frank Dixon

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Illinois Renewable Energy Association site

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The AWEA's annual expo:
Global WINDPOWER 2004
McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 28-31, 2004

I was there...
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Why I Publish This Blog:

"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."