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And the park offers an employee shuttle that hauls staffers from as far away as Eatonville to their posts at headquarters in Ashford and inside the park. PERFORMANCE BIKE Tacoma's Performance Bike recently started Ride with the Wind, a program designed to encourage customers to buy wind energy credits to offset their energy consumption. Customers can pay $5 to $15 per month. As an incentive, participants get a gift card for as much as $50. Also, store manager Joe Flores said 75 percent of employees bike to work year round. Some employees don't even own cars. CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN Crystal started participating in the Ski Green Tag program this year. The proceeds from the $2 tag go the Bonneville Environmental Foundation for clean renewable energy and are designed to offset the emissions from a 150-mile drive.
Acciona dedicates solar power generator in southern Nevada desert
BOULDER CITY, Nev. – The founder of Apple Computers, the first woman in space and a Hollywood actor and activist joined officials from a Spanish company dedicating a solar power generating station Friday in the Nevada desert. Acciona executives say the 400-acre Nevada Solar One project provides enough electricity to serve 14,000 homes, and demonstrates the viability of commercial-scale concentrating solar power production in the United States. "We launched this project in Nevada because of the existing solar resources and the capacity to provide a significant portion of the electricity consumed by a city like Las Vegas in the hours of peak demand," Acciona chairman and chief executive Jose Manuel Entrecanales said in a statement. Apple founder Steve Wozniak, former NASA astronaut Sally Ride and actor Ed Begley Jr.
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