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South Bay Bicycle Coalition Scores $240,000 Grant! Huge Grassroots Victory for Brand New Bike Group

Creative Greenius

The group hopes to see more South Bay cities install such bicycle-friendly facilities. South Bay Bicycle Coalition members including Redondo Beach Councilman Steve Diels, with County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas and County Department of Public Health Staff upon awarding of the grant. Steve McCrank, Daily Breeze Staff Photographer).

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ECOtality to Provide Blink EV Charging Stations at Select US Best Buy Stores

Green Car Congress

Under the terms of the agreement, the Level 2, J1772-compliant charging stations will be installed at 12 Best Buy stores in Tucson, Ariz.; Los Angeles, Calif.; Charging stations at these stores, within pilot markets of The EV Project, will be installed by March 2011. Phoenix, Ariz.; San Diego, Calif. and Seattle, Wash.

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CleanFUEL USA Secures $12.9 Million from US DOE for 100+ Propane Refueling Stations

Green Car Congress

million in two stimulus grants to CleanFUEL USA to establish more than 100 liquid propane (autogas) refueling stations in major US cities in coordination with CleanFUEL USA partners, including ConocoPhillips. The first station will be installed in Atlanta followed by Chicago, Houston, Denver and Sacramento.

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, New York City, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. We’re excited to be part of this program, because it gets both public and private infrastructure installed in key areas of the U.S.,” A $2,000 value!).

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. If you are a business in a program area, you can get the same deal - free charge stations paid for by stimulus money. The new ChargePoint America installation seems designed to illustrate my point.

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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

SBESC's Marilyn Lyon talks about Federal Stimulus Funding / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani. We also learned from Marilyn Lyon that Federal Stimulus money will be coming L.A. Each red dot contains information on that zip code's solar installations. More to come on these zero emission vehicles in another post.

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The Solangelist’s Vision Shines Brighter

Creative Greenius

The quickest and most effective way to make that happen today is to green the current grid, house-by-house, by installing rooftop solar energy systems that feed clean, renewable power into the grid the second they’re switched on. Seems like a perfect use for some stimulus money, don’t it? Don’t stop there, either.