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Why Your Cable Guy Might Drive an Electric Vehicle Before You Do (Triple Pundit) - Mar 09, 2010

Last week, I took an all electric version of Ford's Transit Connect out for a spin here in San Francisco. It wasn't all that exciting. I'm not the only one who thought so, either. 
Recent Research on Ford Motor Company (F)
Ford Motor Company (Moody's Global Credit Research)- Jan 28, 2010
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Ford Unveils Electric Transit Connect, Focused on Fleet Owners (Triple Pundit) - Feb 09, 2010

Ford announced today that an all electric version of its Transit Connect small cargo van will roll off production lines and into vehicle fleets later this year. The Transit Connect has been, so far, a hit for Ford, selling well in Europe, where it debuted before coming state side last year in a 20 liter, four cylinder gas powered engine that gets 19 miles to the gallon in the city and 24 mpg highway Will fleet owners embrace this EV version? 
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IT Leaders Set Major Efficiency Goals with Green Touch (Triple Pundit) - Jan 11, 2010

Bell Labs (FC), Alcatel Lucent's research arm, is spearheading a major research consortium, called Green Touch , that includes academic and government funded research labs, telecommunications service providers and chipmakers. The organizations are putting their efforts toward creating technologies needed to make communications networks 1,000 times more energy efficient than they are today The effort was announced today at a press conference in London 
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Panasonic Forecasts Zero-Emission Homes with Energy Storage Solution (Triple Pundit) - Jan 04, 2010

But when it said late last month that it hopes to start selling a lithium ion storage cell for home use around fiscal 2011, electronics giant Panasonic signaled that it could be filling that energy storage void Details about the battery are sketchy, at best Panasonic's president Fumio Otsubo told the Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun about the planned product but didn't mention how large the energy storage system would be, or how much it would cost 
Recent Research on Panasonic Corp (6752)
Panasonic Corp. (S&P Credit Research)- Mar 02, 2010
Summary: Panasonic Corp. (S&P Credit Research)- Mar 02, 2010
Moody's says Japanese corporates must continue with improvements (Moody's Global Credit Research)- Feb 01, 2010
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Ford, Partners, to Focus on the “E” in EVs (Triple Pundit) - Nov 04, 2009

Last month I attended a forum presented by Ford in which it previewed its upcoming electric vehicles—the battery electric (BEV) Transit Connect (a utility van) due in 2010, followed by BEV Focus sedan in 2011 and plug in hybrid (PHEV) in 2012. Nancy Gioia, Ford's director of global electrification, also provided an overview of the tooling and manufacturing systems that Ford has put into place in order to hit its production targets for EVs while also maximizing its current manufacturing models—i.e creating production lines that can be used for building vehicles with electric, hybrid or fuel based engines. 
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Will Microsoft and Google Blow Life into British Wind Power? (Triple Pundit) - Oct 26, 2009

Giant IT companies with giant energy needs—Microsoft and Google are great examples—have been looking for low cost, low polluting ways of powering their massive server farms for years. In fact, both firms built server farms along the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon in order to take advantage of some of the cheapest hydro power in the country. Could they now be looking to the wind to help power their European operations? 
Recent Research on Google, Inc. (GOOG)
Google at Barclays Technology Conference (Thomson Street Events)- Dec 09, 2009
Google at Thomson Reuters Global Media Summit - New York (Thomson Street Events)- Dec 03, 2009
Google at Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit (Thomson Street Events)- Nov 11, 2009
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Ebay, Others, Offer Strategies for Turning Customers into Allies (Triple Pundit) - Oct 21, 2009

For eBay , the task of fostering advocacy among its customers is a relatively easy task. After all, eBay buyers and sellers deal in reused, salvaged goods, so they are by nature "recyclers." To emphasize this, and to provide a range of ideas on ways that eBay users can build on their existing green cred, eBay's Green Team offers tips and tricks and news through Green Team site, explained Cole. 
Recent Research on eBay Inc. (EBAY)
Summary: eBay Inc. (S&P Credit Research)- Nov 10, 2009
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ecoATM Tries to Take the Waste Out of E-Waste (Triple Pundit) - Oct 09, 2009

Who would have guessed that a store called the Nebraska Furniture Mart would be at the leading edge of consumer electronics life cycle management? But it is. The store is hosting the first ecoATM machine, the brainchild of a San Diego startup that has found a way to make recycling consumer electronics easier—as well as valuable. 
Recent Research on Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A)
Moody's rates Berkshire Hathaway's shelf and notes Aa2 (Moody's Global Credit Research)- Feb 04, 2010
Moody's rates Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp's notes Aa2 (Moody's Global Credit Research)- Jan 06, 2010
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Who would have guessed that a store called the Nebraska Furniture Mart would be at the leading edge of consumer electronics life cycle management? But it is. The store is hosting the first ecoATM machine, the brainchild of a San Diego startup that has found a way to make recycling consumer electronics easier—as well as valuable. 
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PG&E Quits US Chamber, Protesting Its Climate Change Stance (Triple Pundit) - Sep 22, 2009

Peter Darbee, chairman and CEO of California utility Pacific Gas & Electric , on Tuesday took a very public stand against the US Chamber of Commerce and what he calls its "disingenuous attempts to diminish or distort" the facts around global climate change. The utility quit the Chamber, a lobbying group that represents three million businesses and has called for the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a public hearing in order to debate whether climate change is a result of human activity–part of its attempts to oppose federal emissions regulations. Our Sponsor Message Continue Reading Below » . 
Recent Research on Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Summary: Pacific Gas&Electric Co. (S&P Credit Research)- Nov 25, 2009
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Share:  Peter Darbee, chairman and CEO of California utility <span class="company">Pacific</span> Gas & Electric , on Tuesday took a very public stand against the US Chamber of Commerce and what he calls its "disingenuous attempts to diminish or distort" the facts around global climate change. Tweet this 

Peter Darbee, chairman and CEO of California utility Pacific Gas & Electric , on Tuesday took a very public stand against the US Chamber of Commerce and what he calls its "disingenuous attempts to diminish or distort" the facts around global climate change. The utility quit the Chamber, a lobbying group that represents three million businesses and has called for the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a public hearing in order to debate whether climate change is a result of human activity–part of its attempts to oppose federal emissions regulations. Our Sponsor Message Continue Reading Below » . 
Recent Research on PG&E Corporation (PCG)
Summary: PG&E Corp. (S&P Credit Research)- Nov 25, 2009
Q3 2009 PG&E Corporation Earnings Conference Call (Thomson Street Events)- Oct 29, 2009
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Share:  Peter Darbee, chairman and CEO of California utility <span class="company">Pacific</span> Gas & Electric , on Tuesday took a very public stand against the US Chamber of Commerce and what he calls its "disingenuous attempts to diminish or distort" the facts around global climate change. Tweet this 

Nestle Gives Up Fight to Secure McCloud Water Bottling Plant (Triple Pundit) - Sep 17, 2009

But activists in the Northern California town of McCloud are claiming victory in a six year battle to block Nestle Waters North America from erecting a water bottling plant at the site of an old mill in the once prosperous logging town. Nestle announced on that it is bagging the proposal. When first introduced, Nestle's proposal was for a 1 million square foot facility that would bottle a mind boggling 521 million gallons of water a year, pulling it from the town's watershed and then trucking it as far south of Los Angeles. 
Recent Research on Nestle SA (NESN)
2010 European Consumer and Retail Outlook (Fitch Research)- Dec 15, 2009
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Sigg’s Slippery Slip-up: How to Lose Partners and Alienate Customers (Triple Pundit) - Sep 14, 2009

Outdoor clothing and gear company Patagonia announced last week that it had terminated its partnership with Sigg, through which it had developed a co branded water bottle (It is also offering consumers full refunds for their Patagonia branded Sigg bottles.) . In a statement, Rick Ridgeway, Patagonia's VP of environmental initiatives, said the retailer asked Sigg on a number of occasions whether its water bottles contain BPA (in the bottle liner) and that Sigg "clearly said there was not." Later in the statement he refers to this as "thorough due diligence." 
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Outdoor clothing and gear company Patagonia announced last week that it had terminated its partnership with Sigg, through which it had developed a co branded water bottle (It is also offering consumers full refunds for their Patagonia branded Sigg bottles.) . In a statement, Rick Ridgeway, Patagonia's VP of environmental initiatives, said the retailer asked Sigg on a number of occasions whether its water bottles contain BPA (in the bottle liner) and that Sigg "clearly said there was not." Later in the statement he refers to this as "thorough due diligence." 
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Starbucks Isn’t Alone: Local-washing Is the New Black (Triple Pundit) - Sep 11, 2009

Our post last week about 15th Ave Coffee & Tea —a coffee house that Starbucks opened this summer in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood but chose not to brand with its trademark sea creature logo—elicited a whole bunch of response from readers. Some of the readers stated that Starbucks is just plain evil. Others complained that it's lame to hate on chains just because they are chains. 
Recent Research on Starbucks Corporation (SBUX)
Q4 2009 Starbucks Earnings Conference Call (Thomson Street Events)- Nov 05, 2009
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Mary Catherine O'Connor

Triple Pundit

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About Mary Catherine O'Connor:

Freelance writer Mary Catherine O'Connor finds that a growing number of companies are proving the ways that they can make good financially, socially and environmentally (as the triple bottom line theory suggests). With that in mind, she contributes to Triple Pundit, as well as to GreenBiz.com. When not engrossed in business and clean technology stories, O'Connor also pens stories about a range of other topics, including outdoor sports, adventurers and emerging technologies.

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