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What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

It’s 2007. With the exception of Total’s stake in SunPower, the trio was fairly quiet for 10 years post-2007. A look at BP’s 2007 annual report shows that seven years deep into its “Beyond Petroleum” rebrand, it was still searching for a differentiator. By the end of 2007, the U.K.

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Elkhorn Valley Wind Farm has safely produced renewable energy since 2007

Green Living Guy

The post Elkhorn Valley Wind Farm has safely produced renewable energy since 2007 appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Nevada. The 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm represents an estimated capital investment of $221 million.

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Carbon pricing works, and this proves it

GreenBiz

The figure below shows countries that had a carbon price in 2007 as a black triangle and countries that did not as a green circle. On average, carbon dioxide emissions fell by 2 percent per year from 2007 to 2017 in countries with a carbon price in 2007 and increased by 3 percent per year in the others.

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'I Am a Plastic Bag' is made from recycled single-use plastic bottles

Inhabitat - Innovation

Following the sold-out success of “I Am Not a Plastic Bag” in 2007, designer brand Anya Hindmarch has launched a new product, called "I Am a Plastic Bag" aimed at recycling single-use plastic and leaving behind a net-zero carbon footprint from production.

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From zero to 100 pct renewables in just 20 years: South Australia’s remarkable energy transition

Renew Economy

South Australia has gone from near zero renewables in 2007 to a planned 100 per cent renewables share just 20 years later. The head of the state's transmission company explains how. The post From zero to 100 pct renewables in just 20 years: South Australia’s remarkable energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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EVs are one step closer to becoming roaming grid batteries

Canary Media

In fact, he and his team of EV researchers at the university have been turning electric vehicles into grid batteries since 2007 , when they kicked off a first-of-a-kind experiment that’s since been replicated in V2G… University of Delaware professor Willett Kempton is a pioneer of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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Parsing Panera's plan to nudge consumers toward low-carbon meals

GreenBiz

In 2007, for instance, PepsiCo added a label to its Walkers potato chips noting that each bag generated 80 grams of carbon dioxide. A few years later, the label was gone. With consumers not having enough points of comparison to make the label a useful tool at the time, it was discontinued," a PepsiCo spokesperson told me.

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