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Reviving Delaware's Auto Industry
Fisker
Automotive has selected the Wilmington Assembly plant in Wilmington Delaware
to build affordable plug-in hybrid cars.
Fisker executives made the announcement inside the dormant facility today,
joined by Vice President Joe Biden, Delaware Governor Jack Markell and other
state officials.
The plant will support Fisker Automotive’s Project NINA, the development and
build of an affordable, family-oriented plug-in hybrid sedan costing about
$39,900 after federal tax credits.
Production is scheduled to begin in late 2012. Fisker Automotive
anticipates Project NINA will ultimately create or support 2,000 factory
jobs and more than 3,000 vendor and supplier jobs by 2014, as production
ramps up to full capacity of 75,000-100,000 vehicles per year. More than
half will be exported, the largest percentage of any domestic manufacturer.
The modernized Wilmington Assembly plant was selected for its size,
production capacity, world-class paint facilities, access to shipping ports,
rail lines and available skilled workforce.
“This is a major step toward establishing America as a leader of advanced
vehicle technology,” said Henrik Fisker, CEO. “Wilmington is perfect for
high quality, low volume production and will soon be the proud builder of
world-class, fuel-efficient Fisker plug-in hybrids.”
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Delaware's First Green Salon & Day Spa
Bliss
Elements located at 2400 Kirkwood Highway just outside of Elsmere is the
result of a powerful shared vision of co-founders Sherell and Michael Flagg.
With almost 2 decades of experience in the field of Cosmetology they have
created a sustainable oases for their guests to be pampered and just “BE”.
Intrigued by change and the inherent belief that making small changes will
eventually lead to making a big difference, they patiently worked toward
their goal of one day operating a Green Day Spa. Sherell has always been
interested in decorating and design. Michael possesses an innate
inquisitiveness and ability to figure out how to implement ideas. Together
along with their children they call themselves “Team Flagg.”
Team Flagg
Their dissatisfaction with the quality of products that were currently
available, Michael and Sherell began researching natural ingredients and
their attributes. After much due diligence, they now produce their own line
of high quality, eco-friendly beauty care products using as many sustainable
ingredients and as much
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TerraCycle makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials. They hope to eliminate the idea of waste by finding innovative, unique uses for materials others deem garbage.
TerraCycle also runs free national collection programs (brigades) that pay non-profits and schools. TerraCycle has exclusive partnerships with major CPG companies such as Kraft Foods, Frito Lay (Pepsi), Stonyfield Farm, Mars Wrigley and many more. The partnerships create free collection programs that pay schools and non-profits nationwide to collect used packaging such as drink pouches, energy bar wrappers, yogurt cups, cookie wrappers, chip bags and more!
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The U.S. Green Confidence Index
is Here!
“Americans’ attitudes about how they view environmental problems and solutions are complex and dynamic,” says Joel Makower, executive editor of GreenBiz.com and chairman of Greener World Media.
“For years, periodic surveys have tried to capture
snapshots of those attitudes. By surveying monthly, the Green Confidence
Index will reveal real-time shifts and nuances marketers don’t usually
see.”
The Index is calculated using consumers’ responses in three areas:
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Responsibility: how leaders and institutions are perceived to be addressing environmental issues (weight: 40%)
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Information: the adequacy of information available to make informed decisions (20%)
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Purchasing: past and future purchases of green products (40%)
LEED Platinum Design
for Downtown Wilmington
Element Design Group has designed a LEED-certi
courtesy of Element Design Group
Vice President Biden and the Middle Class Task Force just finished unveiling the Recovery Through Retrofit Report, at a public event inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Joining the Vice President at the announcement were Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Karen Mills, Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
Last May in Denver, CO the Vice President asked the White House Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) to report back to the Middle Class Task Force with a plan to make sure that the unprecedented Recovery Act investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy lay the groundwork for a self-sustaining home energy efficiency retrofit industry -- which will create good, green jobs and save middle class families money on their energy bills. CEQ answered this call by bringing together eleven Departments and Agencies and six White House offices to develop today’s report.
The report identifies three barriers that have prevented a national market for home retrofits from taking off. First, ...continued