Technology giant General Electric announced this morning that it was dropping $2.6 million in capital on UK-based Ocean Power Delivery, builder of the world's first commercial electricity-producing wave farm 3 miles off the coast of Portugal.

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Big business is going green ... hey, where you going? No, we mean it this time! Old-guard financial-services firm Goldman Sachs Group just announced new policies to promote forest and climate protection, and intends to invest $1 billion in alternative-energy projects. Procter & Gamble, seeking to trim oil costs, is subbing vegetable oil for petroleum products in Tide detergent and Head & Shoulders shampoos.