Author Archives: Jana Holt

Partnering for a Better City: Au Bon Pain Fellow Invited to Boston Sustainability Conference

By | Bio | Published: July 12, 2012

By Jana Holt, 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellow at Au Bon Pain, Dual  MBA/MEM Candidate at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Organization: Boston’s A Better City Challenge for Sustainability (ABC) Opportunity: “The private sector has the ability to influence social change on the larger community quickly and efficiently. A Better City Challenge for [...]

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Rebates, Grants and Incentives, Oh My!

By | Bio | Published: July 26, 2010

A few weeks ago, I spoke with journalist and friend of Environmental Defense Fund, Sarah Fister Gale (see her work on GreenBiz.com), about how companies can take advantage of rebates and funding opportunities to green their operations. Once I sat down to think about it, I realized that there is a lot of money out [...]

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Calling All California Truck Fleets – Free Money to Purchase Hybrids Now Available

By | Bio | Published: February 10, 2010

Have trucks in California? You’d better get to your dealer fast, because the California Hybrid Voucher Incentive Program is open for business. On February 4, the landmark program officially opened, and boy, were fleets ready. In the first 12 hours, about 25 percent of the program’s $20 million in vouchers had been requested. All fleets [...]

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Is There a Hybrid Truck on Your Holiday Wish List?

By | Bio | Published: November 11, 2009

Last month, I traveled to Atlanta for the 2009 Hybrid Truck Users Forum (HTUF) annual conference. The event brings together truck manufacturers, suppliers, fleets and NGOs to discuss hybrid and high-efficiency vehicle technologies with a focus on reducing emissions. It’s amazing to see how the market has grown in just a few years.  In 2005, [...]

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Moo-ving the Market for Hybrid Trucks

By | Bio | Published: November 2, 2009

This month, Oakhurst Dairy took delivery of its first hybrid truck as part of a suite of efforts to reduce the local dairy’s impact on the environment. Oakhurst expects the truck to use nine fewer gallons of fuel per day and help avoid about 52,000 pounds of CO2 annually. While $30 a day in fuel [...]

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Stimulating the Hybrid Truck Market

By | Bio | Published: September 2, 2009

If you listen carefully, you just might hear the quiet hum of over 250 new hybrid trucks coming down the road. States and regions around the country are slowly but surely announcing the winners of grants from EPA’s Diesel Emissions Reduction program and the Department of Energy’s Clean Cities programs, which, together, received $600 million [...]

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