This past weekend I attended the Green Marine Expo at the Mohegan Sun Resort in Uncasville, CT.  This now makes it close to 50 energy or green events that I’ve attended in the New England area since I began writing this blog in 2006.  And I’ve attended only a small portion of all the green [...]

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Portland, ME – TD Bank, a bank with a large presence in Connecticut, annouced last week it is the largest U.S.-based bank to go carbon neutral. TD Bank also unveiled the new “green” design for its future stores. As part of its overall environment strategy, TD Bank reached its carbon neutral goal by building greener [...]

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Simsbury, Conn. – HB Marine (HBM) and Independence Green Yachts (IGY) announced at the Miami Boat Show held last week that they will form a joint venture to pursue the development of the Independence 60, the world’s first ‘no compromise’ sustainable yacht. HB Marine, based in Simsbury, Conn., is the owner of a patented technology [...]

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Bloomfield, Conn. – FuelCell Energy Inc., based in Danbury, CT, has announced the hiring of a former Ingersoll Rand executive with global energy sales experience.  Chip Bottone is FuelCell’s new senior vice president and chief commercial officer and he’ll hawk the Danbury company’s clean-energy power cells in industrialized and Third World countries. Bottone spent 25 [...]

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In Norwalk, CT Building 401 Merritt 7  recently achieved LEED® EB certification as established by the U.S. Green Building Council (U.S. GBC) and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). By achieving this certification, 401 Merritt 7 is the first existing commercial office building in the state of Connecticut to become LEED certified under the [...]

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East Haven, Conn. – Steadfast Holdings has announced that it has signed a project management agreement to operate the construction of an alternative energy site in Illinois. The East Haven, CT-based company, in a press release stated the project will be built in three phases beginning in late March 2010 and will include the first [...]

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