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Less
Impactive
These are companies
whose products are less impactive than traditional
products,or whose methods of manufacturing are less
impactive than traditional methods,
or who provide products or services which aid in
energy conservation or pollution
reduction.
Energy:
COMV, CREE, ELON, ENOC, EVRC.pk, JCI, PWCL.PK, POWI,
UQM, VLNC
Other: ADES, ADBE, AIN, AMD, A, APD, AMAT, BWTR,
CHD, ELT.v,
FTEK, GAIA, GOOG, NTAP, PCH, SWTX
TMO, WMI, WY
E n e r g
y
Also see our
section on companies involved with Fuel
Cells.
COMV -
Comverge
A company that gets paid to increase the energy
efficiency of other companies. From Google Finance:
"Comverge, Inc. is a clean energy company providing peaking and base
load capacity to electric utilities, grid operators and associated
electricity markets. Through its Smart Grid Solutions Group, Comverge
develops and delivers smart grid solutions to utilities and other
energy customers consisting of demand response systems comprising
hardware, software and installation services. Its Alternative Energy
Resources Group offers electric capacity to utility customers during
periods of peak energy demand, as well as base load reduction. The
Company also provides energy management and demand response solutions
to large commercial and industrial consumers through its Enerwise
Group." (RS, 6-08)
CREE -
Cree
Produces semiconductors that, according to
their site, "enhance the value of LED solid-state lighting, power and
communications products by significantly increasing their energy
performance." (RS, 6-08)
ELON -
Echelon
& Energy Management
Develops various products that aid in energy
conservation. From Google Finance:
"Echelon Corporation develops, markets, and sells system and network
infrastructure products that enable various devices such as air
conditioners, appliances, electricity meters, light switches,
thermostats, and valves to be made smart and inter-connected. The
Company's products and services are offered to the principal markets,
which include electric utilities, building automation, industrial
automation, demand response, street lighting, home control and
transportation." (RS, 6-08)
ENOC -
Enernoc
Similar to Comverge (above), EnerNOC works with
companies and other groups to improve their energy efficiency. From Google Finance,
"EnerNOC, Inc. is a developer and provider of clean and intelligent
energy solutions. The Company uses its Network Operations Center (NOC)
to remotely manage and reduce electricity consumption across a network
of commercial, institutional and industrial customer sites to enable a
more information-based and responsive, or intelligent, electric power
grid. The Company's customers are electric power grid operators and
utilities, as well as commercial, institutional and industrial end
users of electricity." (RS, 6-08)
EVRC.pk
- Evercel
Makes deep-discharge nickel-zinc
batteries for use in boats, electric cars,
electric bicycles, and scooters. Besides being
more efficient than conventional batteries,
"Evercel's nickel-zinc batteries use materials
that are safer for the environment than lead
acid and nickel cadmium batteries. Evercel has
also patented a manufacturing process that
reduces contaminants that are hazardous to the
environment." Company was spun off from Fuel
Cell Energy (FCEL) in February 1999. (MBJ, from
company website, 6-01)
JCI - Johnson
Controls
JCI helps businesses substantially
reduce their energy use. They also make car
batteries and car interiors. One of only 20
companies to receive the World Environment
Center (WEC) Gold Medal Award from U.S. EPA.
(MBJ, 4-05)
PWCL.PK
- Power
Cold Corporation
An energy company that develops,
manufactures and markets proprietary equipment
to achieve significant power cost savings for
commercial and industrial firms through
reductions in energy consumption. (From
company's website, 3-02)
POWI -
Power
Integrations
From Google
Finance: "[Their] power supplies convert electricity from a
high-voltage source, such as a wall socket, to the type of power needed
by a given electronic device, such as a cellphone or a computer. This
conversion entails, among other functions, reducing the voltage and,
when necessary, converting alternating current (AC) to direct current
(DC), referred to as AC-DC conversion." Saves electricity, basically.
(RS, 6-08)
UQM - Unique
Mobility
Manufacturers electric vehicles and
their motors, although they produce extensively
for the military and aerospace industries. (MBJ)
VLNC -
Valence
Technology
From their site, "Valence Lithium Phosphate is
the only lithium chemistry that is stable in overcharge or short
circuit conditions and has the ability to withstand high temperatures
without catastrophic failure. Valence Lithium Phosphate is not prone to
thermal runaway and will not burn, providing energy storage solutions
that are fundamentally superior to other lithium-ion batteries."
They're based out of Austin, TX. (RS, 6-08)
O t h e
r
ADES -
ADA-ES
Produces products that help polluting
industries reduce their pollution and achieve compliance with
environmental laws. (RS, 6-08)
ADBE - Adobe
Systems, Inc.
Adobe
Systems, Inc. is responsible for computer programs such as Acrobat,
After Effects, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash. On the environment section
of their web site they say, "Adobe is committed to conservation of
natural resources and minimizing our impact on the environment. We
actively seek out and implement innovative methods and programs that
increase efficiencies, conserve energy and water, improve air quality,
and reduce waste." They are also committed to workplace diversity
and fighting
piracy. Business
Ethics 100 Best Corporate Citizens put it number twenty-two on
their list for 2007. (RS, 6-08)
AMD - Advanced
Micro Devices, Inc.
Develops
products for computing, wireless and electronics companies. According
to their Corporate Responsibility Report, AMD has been decreasing its
environmental impact year by year and increasing its charitable
donations. Business
Ethics 100 Best Corporate Citizens put it number two on their list
for 2007. (RS, 6-08)
A - Agilent
The
self proclaimed "premiere measurement company," Agilent creates
equipment for electronic and bio-analytical measurement, which has
applications in nanotechnology and other fields. In 2007, they reduced
their worldwide energy usage for the seventh year in a row and
implemented a green-cleaning program that reduces the use of hazardous
materials at manufacturing sites. In May of 2008, Agilent donated
$800,000 to earthquake relief in China. Business Ethics 100 Best
Corporate Citizens put it number seven on their list for 2007. (RS,
6-08)
APD - Air
Products & Chemicals Company
Air Products and Chemicals, based in
Allentown, PA, manufactures industrial gases
(58% of 1996 revenues) such as oxygen, nitrogen,
and argon; specialty chemicals (34%), including
polyvinyl alcohol, polyurethane additives, and
specialty additives; environmental equipment,
energy facilities, and air pollution control
systems (1%); and related equipment and services
(7%), including cryogenic and noncryogenic
equipment for air separation.Air Products has
developed a number of technologies that enable
adhesive end-users to meet the requirements of
the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and other
regulations for waste water discharge. These
include low-VOC vinyl acetate-ethylene emulsion
technology, low residual vinyl acetate monomer
polyvinyl acetate homopolymer technology, and
two new redispersable powders for adhesives to
assist adhesive manufacturers in eliminating
waste water discharge.The company won Chemical
Engineering's Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering
Achievement Award in 1995 for an oxygen-based
technology for recycling mixed office
wastepaper. The environmentally-friendly process
employs oxygen injection in a concurrent upflow
reactor to produce white pulp from the wastes
while stripping out the dyes present in them.
This oxidative-bleaching process can produce
high-quality paper stock from wastes that vary
greatly in composition, and it incurs
significantly lower treatment-chemical costs
than do alternative methods. The U.S. DOE is
supporting a joint venture between Chemicals
Inc. and Eastman Chemical Co. to demonstrate Air
Products' novel liquid-phase methanol technology
at Eastman's integrated coal-gasification
facility in Kingsport, TN. The technology is one
of the cleanest for generating electric power
from coal and can economically satisfy the most
stringent environmental limits for sulfur
dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
AIN - Albany
International
Albany International, based in Albany New York
but with offices all over the world, manufactures PrimaLoft, a vegan
synthetic fabric used as an alternative to down. They also produce
belts and fabrics made of composite materials that are used in the
manufacture of paper products, and filters to reduce pollution. Some of
their products are used in the manufacture of leather and others are
used in planes, possibly military. (RS, 6-08)
AMAT - Applied
Materials
Applied
Materials uses nanotechnology in the field of manufacturing, helping to
create smaller - and thus more environmentally friendly -
semiconductors. They also make a coating for solar panels. On
their website they say, "Our Energy and Environmental Solutions
group is focused on technology and products that help reduce the need
to burn fossil fuels and lower greenhouse gas emissions." (RS, 6-08)
BWTR -
Basin
Water, Inc.
Removes poisons like nitrate and arsenic from
groundwater supplies so they can become safe tap water. (RS, 6-08)
CHD -
Church
& Dwight
This company is best known for making
Arm & Hammer baking soda. This product has
long been know for being environmentally benign.
The company was a winner of the 1992 Council on
Economic Priorities' Corporate Concience Award
for Environmental Stewardship. Today, its
products are not only used in household cleaning
and personal care products but also to treat
lead in drinking water, neutralize emissions
that contribute to acid rain, remove surface
contaminants in the food processing industry,
and clean electronic sircuitboards without
releasing CFCs. (from GMOG)
ELT.v -
Electra
Gold Ltd.
A mining company which purports to
operate with a conscience, including building
relationships with the aboriginals in the areas
it operates and limiting executive compensation.
Their website has a large downloadable PDF file
detailing their SR attributes. (MBJ, 7-05)
FTEK -
Fuel
Tech
Creates products that decrease pollution and
increase energy efficiency. (RS, 6-08)
GAIA - Gaiam,
Inc.
Gaiam, Inc. is a lifestyle company that
markets to customers who value the environment,
healthy living, a sustainable economy and
personal development, through catalogs, the
Internet, and 15,000 retail points as well as TV
broadcasters including leading names such as
Discovery, Borders, Musicland, Amazon.com and
Target. The Company participates in all five
segments of the (Lifestyles of Health and
Sustainability) LOHAS industry: sustainable
economy, healthy living, alternative healthcare,
personal development, and ecological lifestyles.
The Company offers its products through: direct
marketing (catalogs and consumer advertising),
business-to-business, and e-commerce. (Yahoo
2-01) Acquired Real
Goods, a mail-order retailer of
solar, alternative energy, and
environmentally-friendly products, in
2-01.(MBJ 2-01)
GOOG - Google
Search
engine behemoth Google gets a lot of its power from solar energy and is actively
researching green technology. (RS, 6-08)
NTAP - NetApp,
Inc.
Manufactures
hardware and software, especially for file storage. They have been on
Fortune's list of the top 100 companies to work for in America six
years in a row, in 2008 ranking number 14. They also purport to have an
environmental outlook. In Our Green
Story they describe in detail how they attempt to protect the
environment: "Our approach to fighting growing power consumption is
simple: subtract machines and disks from the power equation by using
storage more efficiently ... Our reduce, reuse, recycle programs
include reducing the volume of disposable materials used at our
offices; offering each employee a reusable mug made from recycled corn
products for daily beverages; and recycling glass, cans, cardboard,
electronics, paper, plastic, batteries, and more. These programs have
earned NetApp a California Waste Reduction Award Program award ...
Through our energy management program, we have successfully reduced
energy consumption and improved energy efficiency at our facilities."
They also shuttle employees so they don't have to rely on cars. (RS,
6-08)
PCH - Potlatch
A sustainable forestry operation. (RS, 6-08)
SWTX
- Southwall
Technologies
Southwall makes reflective film for
building & car windows to reduce heat and
save energy (less used for cooling). They also
make transparent conductors for electronics and
glare filters for computer monitors. Southwall
products are sold into the energy conservation,
electronics and aerospace markets. (MBJ, 11-98)
TMO - Thermo
Electron
Parent company of 22 publicly-traded
subsidiaries which provide a wide array of
products of services, including instrumentation,
biomedical products, alternative-energy systems,
paper-recycling equipment, "natural" pesticides,
and more. (MBJ)
WMI - Waste Management
A Houston based trash collection company with
an eye on the environment. They operate ten Bioreactor Landfills, which
are landfills in which organic compounds decompose quicker. They
harvest the methane from decomposing materials to use it for energy.
They also have set up internal organizations to monitor their impacts
on the environment and suggest changes. As far as community outreach,
they are planning to hold a quilting bee to benefit kids later this
month. (RS, 6-08)
WY - Weyerhaeuser
A logging company that tries to be as kind to
the environment as they can be while chopping down trees. In their Sustainability
section, Weyerhaeuser asks if we knew that "Between 2000 and 2007,
we achieved a 15 percent reduction in direct greenhouse gas emissions."
They expect to make that a 40 percent reduction by 2020. They also say
that all of their forests have been certified sustainable, they go out
of their way to protect bats, they have a diverse and mostly injury
free workplace, and they are attempting to reduce their water use. (RS,
6-08)
ZAAP.OB - ZAP Power Systems
ZAP designs, manufactures and
distributes electric
cars. At least some of its products are
manufactured in China, which is notorious for
poor working conditions and human rights abuses.
In 2002 ZAP filed for bankruptcy, then later
that same year its reorganization plan was
approved by a bankruptcy court and it emerged
from Chapter 11. ZAP is now merged with two
privately held companies.
(MBJ, Dec. 2004, 2011)
Problems
with natural gas
(from Citizen's
Trust, which is now defunct)
Although natural gas is significantly cleaner
than other fossil fuels, it is not without serious
environmental consequences. Certain aspects of
natural gas production can be just as dangerous and
destructive as petroleum and coal. When evaluated
in the areas of Contribution to Global Warming and
Atmospheric Conditions, Impacts of Development and
Exploration, and Resource Availability, there are a
few areas of major concern relating to natural gas.
Off-shore drilling, for example, one of the primary
methods of extracting natural gas, has a per day
emissions equivalent to 7,000 cars driving 50 miles
each. Methane leaks associated with the transport
of natural gas contribute significantly to global
warming, and have 20 times the strength of carbon
dioxide emissions. It should also be noted that
natural gas is a finite resource, and many see the
promotion of natural gas as the ultimate solution
as an impediment to the implementation of renewable
energy sources.
Despite these drawbacks, natural gas does offer
a partial solution to the problems of traditional
fossil fuels, and the benefits are indisputable. It
has far lower carbon dioxide emissions than oil or
coal, and seems to be the cleanest interim choice
as we move from using predominantly finite
resources like petroleum and coal to renewable,
lower-impact resources like hydro and solar power.
Though far from the ultimate solution, the gaining
popularity of natural gas may be seen as the
beginning of a new era, wherein the environment is
not only a selling point, but a major priority.
No Longer
Listed
CE - CalEnergy
[In 2-01, I noticed their symbol
was no longer listed, and not mentioned on their
website.] CalEnergy is involved in
geothermal, natural gas, and hydroelectric
power, only the first of which is really
different from industry standards. And natural
gas itself is controversial. CalEnergy is
not involved in solar or wind power, at least
not according to their web site, but they are
involved with oil & coal. (MBJ)
EFCX - Electric
Fuel Corporation
[In Dec. 2004 I noticed their
symbol was no longer listed. I found they've
since changed their name to Arotech
and they produce products for the military.] Electric Fuel
pioneers the use of zinc-air
battery technology for electric vehicles,
consumer electronic products, and industrial
applications. (Yahoo!, 11-98)
ENR - Envirotest
Systems Corp.
[This company seems to have
disappeard. Their symbol is no longer listed.
The following description is old.] ENR
markets, installs and operates centralized
vehicle emissions testing programs for states
and municipal governments within the U.S.
[According to GMOG,
this company is managed or majority-held by
African-Americans.]
HIPC - High Plains
Corporation
[In Dec. 2004 I noticed their
stock symbol was no longer listed. Their new
symbol might be HPEIF.PK, but I can't tell for
sure whether that's the same company.] High Plains manufactures
and sells ethanol
for blending with gasoline.
LDW - Laidlaw
[Delisted in 12/00 for failing to
meet minimum share price requirement.] LDW
provides passenger services, including school
bus and public transit services; healthcare
transportation services; and management of
physicians' services.
NFLI - Nutrition
for Life
[In 2-01 I noticed their symbol was
no longer listed, and isn't mentioned on their
website.] [In Dec. 2004 I noticed their
web address no longer worked.] Makes
personal air & walter filters, eco-friendly
cleaners, personal care products, and dietary
supplements, and sells them through multi-level
marketing. (MBJ, 11-98)
PWTC.PK - Power
Technology, Inc.
I noticed in June 2008 that it was no longer
trading. Power Technology Inc., formerly Zepplin
Production Corp., is a research and development
company. It is presently engaged in research and
development activities regarding batteries for
the automotive and electric car industries,
electronic sensors, and pipeline connection
technology. The goal of the Company has been the
development of batteries that are substantially
lighter than conventional car batteries, have a
high charge/quicker recharge rate, provide
greater range, will be more cost effective, and
will be more environmentally friendly. (Yahoo,
3-01)
RS.AL - Recycled
Solutions (traded on a
Canadian exchange)
[In Dec. 2004 I noticed their
symbol was no longer listed, and the website
address I had for them no longer works.] Makes Uniseal, a
non-toxic coating made from
recycled tires, which can coat almost any kind
of surface (asphalt, wood, metal, cloth,
styrofoam, more). From their website: "A zero
percent VOCs product eliminates the worry of
exposing applicators or other workers to toxic
fumes, and also eliminates the worry of food and
water contamination by the coating. This lack of
toxicity has led to registration of UniSeal for
casual food contact by the Food and Drug
Administration (US) and Agriculture Canada."
(MBJ)
SVNG - Seventh
Generation
[In 1-00 the company went
private.] Seventh Generation makes recycled
paper products, environmentally-friendly
household cleaners, and other
environmentally-friendly products. (MBJ, 11-98)
TCK - Thermo
Ecotek
[Divested as part of a
reorganization in 1999-200, and no longer
traded.] Subsidiary of Thermo
Electron. Develops, owns, & operates
power plants using "clean" fuels, such as wood
or agricultural waste, is involved with other
"clean fuels" projects, and produces "natural"
organic pesticides. (MBJ)
THN - Thermo
Remediation Inc.
[Noticed in 1-01 that they're no
longer traded.] Environmental-liability
management and compliance services, including
fluids and soil recycling, nuclear remediation,
and data-management systems. (MBJ)
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