Alternative Energy News - November 21, 2006

• General Motors plans a shift toward building and selling more small cars after concluding that most of the growth will come in emerging markets where subcompacts and even smaller cars are most in demand.


• Still small, solar energy industry adds capacity and jobs to compete with utilities.


• City employees get bonus for reaching 'green' goals - Aspen government reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 10.5%.


• Adding to a flurry of oil-company-driven biofuels development pacts, Shell Oil and the biotechnology company Codexis announced an agreement last week to explore what they call "next- generation" biofuels.


• The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles jointly approved a sweeping plan Monday to significantly reduce air pollution generated by port industries in the next five years.