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Butler/Till has re-branded its integrated marketing agency to Verdant Brand Communications, a move meant to better reflect its evolution to meet a more diversified set of client challenges. Formerly known as Brand Cool, the new Verdant has expanded beyond the ...

Two green projects at local universities that won $1 million state grants this week didn’t come out of the blue. Rochester Institute of Technology’s plan to automate ventilation in its Golisano Institute for Sustainability depending on classroom occupancy, for example, ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester both won $1 million grants in a statewide college competition to develop energy saving and sustainability projects. Suffolk County Community College on Long Island won the third prize offered in the ...

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Boosting his clean energy goals for the state, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Monday that the state has $27.5 million available for workforce development and training programs to help expand the number of people working in that area. Cuomo ...

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David Rodriguez wasn’t looking for a business opportunity when he went to check on his property and visit relatives in Puerto Rico last December following Hurricane Maria. Rodriguez, a native of Puerto Rico who grew up in Buffalo, is president ...

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The most popular grapes in New York are Concord grapes, having both a wonderful aroma and a great taste that make them the preferred grape for juice, jam, sweet wine and the much-hyped grape pie. When it comes to eating ...

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Apex Clean Energy unveiled details of its Lighthouse Wind project proposal in Niagara and Orleans counties Tuesday night, drawing a crowd of some 300 people and a protest from some local residents. The audience gathered for the presentation at the ...

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As if winning record federal support earlier this year wasn’t enough, the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics now can claim two new Nobel laureates. The Nobel Foundation in Sweden announced on Tuesday that three physicists would share the ...

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Standing before a field of tens of thousands of solar panels in Hilton, Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo announced on Wednesday that she has created a sustainability team to carry on work like the solar array and other energy-saving projects ...

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You won’t find Deborah Stendardi’s name on the buildings at Rochester Institute of Technology. She’s not listed on the mastheads of various centers and institutes at the university. But her imprint is just about everywhere in Brick City, playing a ...

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The Genesee County Economic Development Center has approved incentives for the construction of two solar farms in the Town of Batavia. The developer, Pearl Solar LLC, will invest roughly $6 million to build two 2MW community solar farms, for a ...

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When George Eastman started building Kodak Park in 1891, the first building constructed in the former orchard was a power plant. Such was the importance of energy to the camera and film manufacturer. In 2018, energy is still critical and ...

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The autos were rolling in, so the lumalon people had to pack up and move aside temporarily. Lumalon, a Pittsford company specializing in light-emitting diode, or LED, illumination, is executing an $866,000 contract to install LED lighting at six buildings ...

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Up to $5 million is being made available for transportation-related clean technology projects, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority said Friday. NYSERDA will award the funding as part of a two-step competitive process for proposals that include ...

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A company that specializes in lower-cost geothermal energy systems has moved into the Rochester area. Dandelion Home Geothermal Systems, which started through an research and development arm of Google, has partnered with Lake Country Geothermal of Walworth, Wayne County, to ...

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