Sustainable Industries Daily Update

Seventh Generation cleaning products, photo courtesy of Flickr

Starting Monday, Wal-Mart shoppers across the country had the option of buying Seventh Generation products for the first time. While the appearance of Seventh Generation goods in Wal-Mart store is a bit surprising considering what former Seventh Generation CEO Jeffery Hollender told Sustainable Industries in 2006, it's not if one considers that Oakland-based Clorox' GreenWorks line accounts for about half the $100 million annual market for eco-cleaners, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Bend, Ore. based IdaTech has announced an expansion of its partnership with tech services firm Cascadiant to provide fuel cells in Indonesia. The companies will provide 154 ElectraGen fuel cell systems on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Lombok to provide backup power to telecommunications networks that often lose power for days due to poor grid quality and natural disasters.

A new Pike Research report finds that the greening of IT data centers (such as power and cooling infrastructure solutions and energy-efficient equipment)  will dramatically increase over the next five years, with companies increasing their investment from $7.5 billion last year to $41.4 billion by 2015.

San Francisco-based Solazyme, which turns genetically modified algae into oils for fuel and food, announced it has raised $52 million on Monday,  in a Series D round of financing.