Firms jump on the green bandwagon
(Times Online) Responding to climate change is giving companies the chance to look good and make money, reports Grant Ringshaw IT is an environmentalist’s dream. A high-tech store where tills are powered by wind turbines, the in-house bakery is fired by solar power and every part of the building is made from recycled materials. However, this is not a vision, but the reality of a supermarket that Tesco will open in Wick in Scotland in two months.

Solar panels a success
(The State) Enough energy to power at least 59 homes for a day has already been produced by the new solar panels atop pavilions at a Coastal Carolina University bus stop, according to the Web site that reports the panels' energy production. The panels on four structures sheltering the bus stop on East Chanticleer Drive mark the state's first solar power site at a public university, said Laura Varn, Santee Cooper's vice president of corporate communications and media relations.

The sun lights up his life
(The Nation Newspaper) IMAGINE never having to pay another electricity bill. Dr Erskine Simmons proudly points out that in the last year he has barely had to pay that bill because his home virtually runs on solar power. From the house lights, to the electrical appliances and the security system, almost everything that needs electricity in his home runs off the sun. He said he had long looked into an alternative way of power because of "years of high electricity bills" for both his home and office.