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Details set for annual sustainable energy forum

Youngstown Vindicator Thursday, May 16, 2013

The fifth annual Youngstown State University Sustainable Energy Forum, featuring more than 200 academicians, energy-industry leaders, government officials and entrepreneurs, will take place June 3 and 4 at Youngstown State University.

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Ohio State wins sustainability championship

The Lantern Thursday, April 11, 2013

While the Ohio State men’s basketball team was competing in the NCAA Tournament, other members of the university community were working toward a different championship title.

OSU was crowned the winner of the second annual Environmental March Madness Tournament early Tuesday, defeating other schools in the “Sustainable 16” after filing out initial surveys.

The tournament pitted universities against one another based on each college’s environmental curriculum and sustainability efforts and was organized by Enviance, an environmental software company.

As the 2013 national champion, OSU will be awarded a $5,000 grant for its Environment, Economy, Development and Sustainability (EEDS) program. Its director will also get an all-expense paid trip to San Diego to attend the 2013 Enviance User Conference and be a part of a discussion panel in April.

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Third Sun Solar featured in Solar Builder Magazine

Solar Builder Magazine Thursday, March 21, 2013

In 1804, Ohio University became the first university established in Ohio. The ninth oldest public university in the United States, OU set up camp in Athens, Ohio, and the 20,000 students who call it home each year swell the population of the city only to leave once summer arrives.

But not Geoff and Michelle Greenfield. After completing their master’s degrees at OU, the couple decided to make Athens their home. They installed some solar systems on their off-the-grid home in 1997, and the community took notice. People started inquiring about how they did it and if they would help on new projects. What started out as a hobby job grew organically into a small solar business for the Greenfields.

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The power of fuel cell technology in Northeast Ohio

Crain's Cleveland Business Thursday, February 28, 2013

Ohio is making history as a leader in the fuel cell industry from the perspective of technology development and manufacturing, including both system integration and supply chain.

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ohio should stay the course on energy efficiency, says expert

Crain's Cleveland Business Thursday, November 29, 2012

Recently, FirstEnergy Corp. of Akron recommended to the Ohio Legislature changes to Ohio's energy efficiency portfolio that would essentially freeze the energy efficiency mandate found in Senate Bill 221 at current levels. As currently written, Senate Bill 221 calls for Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) to undertake energy efficiency improvements by 2025 equal to 22% of 2008's energy consumption. FirstEnergy's proposed changes would end the mandate at the less than 3% cumulative reduction required to date.

Ohio's Legislature should consider carefully any request to alter Ohio's course on energy efficiency. For many reasons, a reduction in the energy efficiency goal does not appear to be a good idea at this time.

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startups are shifting to clean-tech services

The Wall Street Journal Thursday, November 01, 2012

Many entrepreneurs who once envisioned their fledgling clean-tech start-ups becoming the next big thing are now downsizing their dreams.

Newer start-ups attracting investor interest have more modest aims than their clean-tech peers of a decade ago. The new batch expect to generate revenue more quickly and cheaply, and are focusing on making existing industries more efficient and sustainable, building upon the clean-tech infrastructure such as smart meters that have become widespread.

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ohio state commits to getting 25 percent of campus power from ohio wind farm

Columbus Business First Thursday, October 04, 2012

Ohio State University has agreed to buy 50 megawatts of wind energy – equivalent to 26 percent of power consumption on the Columbus main campus – from the Blue Creek Wind Farm in northwest Ohio.

The agreement is one of the largest purchases of wind power by a North American entity that is not a utility, the school said.

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advanced energy conference set for columbus

Akron Beacon Journal Thursday, October 04, 2012

environmental group says wind energy is blowing more jobs into ohio

Statehouse News Bureau Thursday, October 04, 2012

The nation’s wind energy industry is growing, and that’s helping Ohio, according to a new report by an environmental group. The Natural Resources Defense Council says its new study finds that a wind farm, consisting of something like 10 wind turbines, creates a lot of jobs.

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greater cincinnati energy alliance improves 1,000 homes, driving energy efficiency and development

Marketwire Thursday, September 20, 2012

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a cincinnati park shifts the paradigm

Next American City Thursday, September 20, 2012

Over-The-Rhine’s tipping point wasn’t in the form of an eco-friendly general store or gourmet popsicle shop (it now has both), but rather the renovation of the neighborhood’s cultural heart, Washington Park.

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cleveland needs solar power, says plain dealer guest columnist

The Plain Dealer Thursday, August 23, 2012

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abs materials receives grant to advance absorbent glass materials to recycle produced water

New Technology Magazine Thursday, July 12, 2012

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 2012 SBIR IIB Grant of $497,404 to ABSMaterials, Inc., parent company of PWAbsorbents, Inc., to accelerate the commercial capacity to manufacture advanced materials for recycling produced, frac and flowback waters. Read the article here.

Honda takes on new model at East Liberty plant

DAYTON DAILY NEWS, 11/3/09 Thursday, November 05, 2009

Honda's East Liberty, Ohio auto plant has begun mass production of the 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour, reports the Dayton Daily News.

Honda is touting the vehicle as "a new type of crossover utility vehicle that combines the premium refinement of the Accord with the versatile characteristics of a sport-utility vehicle, including a highly functional under-floor storage area." Honda has some 14,000 workers in Ohio.

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Natural gas pipeline promises jobs to Ohioans in its path

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 10/3/09 Thursday, October 08, 2009

To the energy industry, REX is the king of pipelines. For Zanesville's struggling work force, REX is the king of jobs, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The last leg of one of the largest natural-gas pipelines built in 25 years -- stretching 1,679 miles from Colorado to Ohio -- is being laid, welded and buried under fields just east of Zanesville. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Rockies Express, or REX will link the vast but remote stores of fossil fuel buried under the Rocky Mountains with the power-hungry markets of the Midwest and Northeast.

Original source: The Wall Street Journal
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