Green Numbers round-up 10/30/2009

• President Obama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to Spur Transition to Smart Energy Grid

  “Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system. The end result will promote energy-saving choices for consumers, increase efficiency, and foster the growth of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. “

  tags: smart grid, barack obama, obama, stimulus funds, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, greennumbers

• New NSA $1.5 Bil Data Center has Green Requirements – Green Data Center Blog

  ” The National Security Agency, whose job it is to protect national security systems, will soon break ground on a data center in Utah that’s budgeted to cost $1.5 billion.

  The budget document specifies green features.

  Facility design goal will be to the highest LEED standard attainable within available resources and will include: sustainable site characteristics, water and energy efficiency, materials and resources criteria, and indoor environmental quality.”

  tags: nsa, greennumbers, data center, datacenter, leed

• Investigations – Killing fields: the true cost of Europe’s cheap meat – The Ecologist

  “Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence”

  tags: soya, paraguay, greennumbers, killing fields

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