FOX, in partnership with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will bring clean energy to the 63RD PRIMETIME EMMY(R) AWARDS airing live Sunday, Sept. 18 (8:00-11:00 PM ET live/5:00-8:00 PM PT live) on FOX. Solar panels will provide power to the Primetime Emmys red carpet and, for the first time ever, FOX will donate the solar panels and the red carpet to local charities after the event. In addition, the 390-foot red carpet is the largest ever to be lit entirely by low-energy LED and fluorescent lighting.

This year’s red carpet is made from 25,000 square feet of locally-sourced recycled carpet, produced in the only LEED-certified carpet facility in the world. Made from 50% recycled content, the carpet will be donated after the awards to the Ronald McDonald House Long Beach and to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles.

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Tax-financed ‘green jobs’ hucksterism haunting Team Obama

Even as President Barack Obama criss-crosses the country (only in battleground states, natch, come the ’12 election) to sell his latest jobs plan, his administration’s abject failure to pick business winners stands on full display in Fremont, CA. There, solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC — recipient of $535 million in taxpayer-backed loans — is shutting its doors, slumping into bankruptcy and now crawling with federal agents and GOP-led congressional investigators.

Meaning this administration doesn’t just lean anti-business (notwithstanding its penchant for playing footsie with mega-investor Warren Buffett, General Electric Co. Chairman Jeff Immelt and the Wall Street moguls who make campaign contribution). Team Obama also doesn’t seem to have a clue when it comes to discerning the difference between reasonable bets on a company’s future and politically correct fliers on losers unprepared for stiff competition. And Solyndra is proving to be just that.

via DETNEWS | Weblogs | Daniel Howes’ Blog.

Sarah and Kiki kick off TWiT’s newest weekly show for the eco-minded geek. Neighborgoods founder and CEO Micki Krimmel on sharing local, flow batteries as explained by stick figures, and the weekly green beat features eco-cement!

via Green Tech Today 1 | TWiT.TV.

The latest edition of National Instruments’ flagship graphical programming environment features faster compiler technology, pulls in customer ideas and enables integration of third-party FPGA designs.

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To the Podium Again: New Fluke 233 Remote Display Multimeter Wins Silver ACHR Dealer Design Award
EVERETT, WA–(Marketwire – 07/14/10) – Fluke Corporation, the global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, has been recognized for excellence in product design in the 6th annual Dealer Design Awards Program sponsored by The Air Conditioning Heating & Refrigeration News magazine, the leading trade magazine in the heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration …

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Manufacturing in New York Area Grows at Faster Pace (Update2)
June 15 (Bloomberg) — Manufacturing in the New York region expanded in June at a faster pace, signaling factories are weathering the turmoil in financial markets and driving the economic recovery.

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Flextronics eyes more high-end ops in Penang
ELECTRONIC manufacturing services (EMS) giant Flextronics International Ltd is looking to diversify its revenue base by bringing in more high-end operations to its Penang facility.

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Taiwanese iPhone Maker Foxconn Ups Wages (Again) Following Suicides
iPhone maker Foxconn has offered workers at its Shenzhen manufacturing hub in China a 66 percent performance-based pay rise as it tries to deal with the fallout from a spate suicides there.

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Ford invests $135 million in 2 Michigan plants
Ypsilanti Township — Ford Motor Co. said Monday it will invest $135 million in two Michigan parts plants as part of a broader effort to bring production of key electric vehicle technology in-house.

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