The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

Monday, June 07, 2004

Green Buzz from www.greenbiz.com:

Taking Care of Business

This week, the nonprofit Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance welcomes your two cents on a first-of-its-kind endeavor -- a set of certification standards governing land use projects that reduce global warming while conserving the environment and alleviating poverty. The standards, available online, were opened up for peer review and comment just this morning.

Also: If you're planning to take a break from the office sometime this summer, research your options with the EcoTour Directory, an online listing of ecotour operators throughout the world.

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The Latest News on Business and the Environment

First-Ever Standards Set for Land Use Projects Targeting Climate Change
The first-ever set of standards certifying land use projects that reduce global warming will be opened up for global peer review and comment next week by the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance.

World Bank Pledges Hikes in Renewable-Energy Investments
The World Bank Group has committed to an average growth rate of 20% per year over the next five years in its annual financial commitments for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.

Sony and Matsushita Help Expand Web Tool to Manage High-Tech Product Compliance
The electronics industry is being confronted with strict environmental requirements that impact the way that products are designed and sold in global markets.

Twenty Honored as Innovative California Energy-Savers
The California nonprofit Flex Your Power has announced the winners of its 2003 Flex Your Power Energy Efficiency Awards.

New Partnership Brings Sustainable Forest and Farm Products to Market
The Rainforest Alliance has partnered with the United States Agency for International Development to establish the Certified Sustainable Products Alliance, a three-year effort to significantly promote and increase the sale of sustainably produced certified timber, banana, and coffee from Central America and Mexico.

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Site features an emissions calculator that shows how an individual's travel patterns translate to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Aveda Find Sustainability from Within
For those who believe that beauty is only skin deep, meet Dominique Conseil, a native Frenchman who now heads the Minnesota-based Aveda Corp, a manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of personal care and lifestyle products and services. By Penny Bonda and Katie Sosnowchik

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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."