Think that industrial level solar power is not possible yet? Ausra, Inc and their Australian counterpart, Ausra Pty Ltd. would disagree with you. With technology based on solar thermal power plants, they are looking to provide a sustainable power source that is infinitely renewable. Their web site indicates that a 1 square mile area can generate [...]
Archive for September 2008
Industrial Scale Solar Power – Ausra, Inc.
September 29, 2008The Changing Value in Plastic Recycling
September 23, 2008When we think about green strategies and how we will implement them at VirTex, we try to address them in the order that is the lowest cost and the most environmentally friendly. The first question is how can we use less? Ways of reducing include implementing paperless processing, changing methods of handling chemicals so as to [...]
Reuse and Recyle Spotlight – TerraCycle
September 22, 2008TerraCycle is a great company that makes fertilizer out of, as they call it, “worm poop”. They were recently at the INC5000 conference encouraging other companies to do similar things. They package it in recycled containers. They also have a lot of other cool products made from and packaged in recycled products. They are one [...]
My First Green Blog
September 22, 2008My name is Brad Heath and I am the president of VirTex Assembly Services, an electronic manufacturing services company in Austin, TX. I’ve set up this blog to talk about things companies are doing to be more environmentally friendly in manufacturing. A lot of companies are doing a lot of cool stuff, some of it very [...]
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