Alternative Energy Daily News - April 26, 2007

• Boeing and Virgin Atlantic announced an environmental partnership, which includes an order for 15 787-9 Dreamliners, marking the largest 787 order to date for Europe.

• Major grocery chains cut energy use.

• Venture capitalists turned their attention to alternative energy like never before in the first quarter of 2007, pouring four times more money than a year ago, or $237 million into 10 deals. They put another $54 million into environmental innovation.

• Green homes going mainstream.

• In one of the strongest statements on climate change ever made by a U.S. auto industry executive, Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally said Monday that global warming is real, manmade and caused in part by auto emissions. The same day, a top General Motors Corp. executive said that the nation should accelerate the push toward renewable energy to fuel automobiles and said the conversion to ethanol as a leading contributor is "entirely realistic" in a few years.