California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in to his second term today and, fittingly, the week's inaugural celebrations highlighted green power. The governator, of course, has shown how a red politician in a blue state could win a landslide re-election by turning green. Thus, Thursday's "Leading the Green Team" event was reportedly carbon neutral. Electricity was supplied by a generator powered by bovine biogas - methane extracted from cow manure at Joseph Gallo Farms using digester technology from Microgy. The company earlier this year signed a deal to supply bovine biogas to California utility PG&E (PCG). Additional power came from a second generator fueled by biodiesel made from soybean oil and a 3-kilowatt solar panel array from Silicon Valley company Akeena Solar. According to PG&E - a Schwarzenegger supporter and backer of California's landmark global warming law - the alternative energy sources cut in half the greenhouse gases usually emitted at such events. To make the inaugural shindig completely carbon neutral, PG&E said it was purchasing carbon dioxide reductions from van Eck Forest, a Humboldt County woodland certified as a carbon sink. Now if they could just do something about the governor's Hummers.
http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2007/01/california_gov_.html
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