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Energy & Environment
Conservationist awarded for his dogged pursuit to save endangered species
December 1, 2008
Mickey MaurerThrough the efforts of The Indianapolis Zoo, the animal conservation world lasers in on Indianapolis every two years —
presenting
our community an opportunity to recognize and learn from a hero in science and conservation.
MoreAuto industry requires unparalleled effort
November 24, 2008
Morton MarcusWhile America's auto industry is being transformed to become efficient and environmentally conscious, put laid off auto employees
to work educating students.
MoreArchitect recognized for 'green' efforts
November 24, 2008
The U.S. Green Building Council recently honored local architect Bill Brown for his contributions to sustainable design and
construction.
MoreSugar Creek Utility Co. seeks rate relief
November 17, 2008
Sugar Creek Utility Co. wants the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to grant it rate relief for the 84-lot manufactured
housing community Riley Village.
MoreIU launches new energy research center
November 17, 2008
IU has launched another energy research center, this time the Center for Research in Energy, administered by the School of
Public and Environmental Affairs, in Bloomington.
MoreHoosier Energy hit with $120M claim from John Hancock
November 10, 2008
Chris O'MalleyAn electric co-op supplying power to customers in 48 central and southern Indiana counties could face a perilous spike in
its financial load following a $120 million claim against it by insurance giant John Hancock Life Insurance Co.
MoreIndiana Municipal Power Agency buys wind power from Iowa
November 10, 2008
The Indiana Municipal Power Agency said it has agreed to buy up to 50 megawatts a year from Crystal Lake Wind Energy Center
in Hancock County, Iowa.
MoreDePauw, Ball State, Purdue buildings among top AIA design winners
November 10, 2008
Scott OlsonThree university projects, two of which contain green-building elements, dominated the most recent design awards presented
by the American Institute of Architects Indiana chapter. Of the four award winners, three involved college buildings: the
Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering at Purdue University, and
the Straw Bale Eco Center at Ball State University.
MorePurdue University launches Center for Energy Systems and Policy to meld research, business, public policy
November 10, 2008
Chris O'MalleyLast month, Purdue University launched the Center for Energy Systems and Policy to make sure its researchers
are working early in the process with business and public-policy experts at the university.
MoreLet's invest in wind, instead of coal
November 3, 2008
Developing wind energy for Indiana would be economical and could make the state a leader in the green economy of the future.
MoreApples, pumpkins, kids keep orchard tour guide hopping
October 6, 2008
Whitney LeeRuth Butterfield works as a tour guide at Beasley's Orchard & Gardens three or four days a week every fall, leading an average of two tours a day. Most are school groups, but some adults come with their church groups or on nursing home outings, too.
Retailers save on energy costs through innovative lighting, heating and cooling
September 29, 2008
Sam StallWith energy costs at historic highs, retailers are struggling to find ways to trim the cost of lighting, heating and cooling their stores and other facilities. The process of wringing out savings can be long, difficult and complex. However, the rewards are too substantial to ignore.
Law targeting controversial landfill only fuels fight
September 1, 2008
Chris O'MalleyEven for those with
a vested interest in the battle over a proposed landfill near Anderson, it's hard to get too worked up over the latest twist
before the courts or government agencies. After all, the Mallard Lake Landfill battle is in its 29th year.
MoreAlternative-energy company eyes Indiana for 4 wind farms
August 11, 2008
Cory SchoutenAlternative-energy giant Horizon Wind Energy is opening an Indianapolis office focused on developing up to four new wind farms in Indiana at a cost of more than $2 billion. The Houston-based company is renovating space on the top floor of the 12-story J.F. Wild Building at 129 E. Market St., where it plans to manage development of new wind farms in Indiana and Ohio.
Oil companies drill in Indiana fields thought to be 'played out' a century ago
July 14, 2008
Chris O'MalleySky-high oil prices have rekindled an industry in east-central Indiana that many thought had run its course a century ago.
A handful of wily prospectors motivated by oil prices approaching $150 a barrel are betting that's not the case.
MorePort-a-potty cleaning not such a foul job after all
July 14, 2008
Chip CutterDanny Hutson jumps down from the cab of his truck, grabs a giant yellow and black hose, and gets ready to deal with a familiar
smell: human waste and disinfectant. It's all part of the job for Hutson, who cleans as many as 45 portable toilets a day
for Aardvark Tidy Toilets, a division of Indianapolis-based Gridlock Traffic Systems Inc.
MoreReducing carbon emissions could send state power prices soaring
June 16, 2008
Chris O'MalleyA report from Purdue University suggests industrial customers in
Indiana could see disproportional rate increases in the years ahead as the state's coal-intensive electric utilities are forced
to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
MoreLocal engineering firm backing effort to turn garbage into ethanol
May 26, 2008
Chris O'MalleyIndianapolis-based engineering and consulting giant RW Armstrong has become lead investor in an upstart ethanol firm that
would apply novel technology to make the automotive fuel without using corn as the key ingredient. It would be the first big
commercial plant in Indiana to make the alcohol fuel with so-called cellulosic material--the holy grail, of sorts, in the
ethanol
industry.
MoreClean Wave hopes to invest $100M in alternative energy, sustainable technologies
May 12, 2008
Chris O'MalleyA former Silicon Valley sales executive and a Cincinnati investment manager have formed a venture fund here that's trying
to raise $100 million to invest in the new darlings of the investment world: clean technology firms. Clean Wave Ventures founders
Scott Prince and Rick Kieser are banking on soaring energy costs attracting investors to the risky but potentially lucrative
realm of alternative energy and transportation and related fields.
MoreArea air quality given mixed reviews
April 7, 2008
Chris O'MalleyHelped by a combination of plant closures and better emission controls, industrial air pollution in the nine-county region
has fallen 14 percent since the economic boom of the late 1990s, a federal database shows. But even with the reductions, the
metro area will struggle to comply with reduced ground-level ozone limits announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
March 12.
MoreAcquisitions make Carmel company nation's largest underground utility locator
April 7, 2008
Chris O'MalleyA former Indianapolis Water executive who spent the last six years helping the United Nations find food for the starving has
returned and assembled the country's largest underground utility locator company.
MoreKnauf plans state's first 'gold-certified' building
March 17, 2008
Chris O'Malleyin an uncommon move among Indiana manufacturers typically more preoccupied with foreign competition and deteriorating margins,
Knauf Insulation is rebuilding its research and development facility, destroyed in a fire last year, to make it 30 percent
more energy-efficient than a conventional office building of its size.
MoreAgainst odds, AlGalCo pursues 'Holy Grail' of power cells
February 25, 2008
Sam StallA small West Lafayette technology startup has quietly unveiled a product that might, just might, change the world. At the
TechAdvantage Conference and Expo in Anaheim, Calif., on Feb. 20, Kurt Koehler, CEO, co-founder (and, for the moment, sole
employee) of AlGalCo LLC, showed off a pre-production hydrogen-powered emergency generator.
MoreNew steam plant could propel Speedway revival
December 31, 2007
Chris O'MalleyA unit of Citizens Gas proposes building a natural-gas-fueled steam plant in Speedway to serve large employers in the town
of 12,800.
MoreeGix buyout sets up Bell battle
December 17, 2007
Scott OlsonThe fiercely competitive local telecommunications landscape should get even more heated, following Cincinnati Bell Inc.'s
$18 million acquisition of Carmel-based eGix Inc. eGix provides bundled voice and data services, as well as high-speed Internet
access and messaging products, to about 17,000 commercial customers.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.