Going Green!

Phoenix has added 737 acres to its Sonoran Preserve, spending $46 million for land southwest of 7th Avenue and Carefree Highway. The land was bought from the Arizona State Land Department. The purchase brings the preserve up to 5,200 acres. Ultimately, it will cover 21,500 acres. The money for the purchase came from the state’s [...]

The Cave Creek Unified School District’s governing board approved the drilling of a test well at its high-school campus. In January a 250-foot test well was dug on the campus at Cactus Shadows High School at no cost to the district. The district could be among the first to try geothermal. Congan Associates, a Phoenix [...]

Phoenix Business Journal April 17, 2009 Science Foundation Arizona is investing $4 million to develop an institute focusing on different solar power generating technologies to spur more innovation in the state, the organization announced Friday. SFAz is forming the Solar Technology Institute to handle research on five specific aspects of solar technology: concentrated photovoltaics, nanostructured [...]