If you missed the Compostmodern sustainable design conference in San Francisco last week, you can get an excellent taste here of one of the top presentations. Nathan Shedroff is the chair of the Design Strategy MBA ...READ»
In Britain, small mom-and-pop shops are thriving by selling filtered used cooking oil as biodiesel for cars. They can sell the fuel at a discount to regular diesel because they get the grease free from fish-and-chips shops and other ...READ»
The IT sector sucks up about as much energy as the aviation industry. This is largely due to the ugly guts of the Internet--the data centers with their racks of servers that must be constantly hooked up to power and cooled with ...READ»
Commenters like Tom Friedman and James Fallows have suggested that China's command-and-control government and history of dramatic social change (Great Leap Forward, anyone?) actually offers a better approach, compared to the ...READ»
Finish your vegetables, and there won’t be so many children starving in China. That’s the gist of a remarkable new report by the United Nations Environment Programme. It just issued a seven-point plan that targets reducing ...READ»
Next week, 10,000 students and youth will converge on the Capitol for a massive lobby day to demand action on climate change and green jobs.
On March 2, thousands of people have pledged to commit nonviolent civil disobedience at ...READ»
Pankaj Shah is a 36-year-old four-time entrepreneur whose latest project, Tonic, is like Angelina Jolie in website form: glitz and sex appeal combined with do-gooding and a dose of unreasonable optimism. The for-profit site sells ...READ»
Worries about the Earth reaching its full carrying capacity for humans are nothing new, and they all come back to how much food we can grow. Our last case of the Malthusian heebie-jeebies, in the 1950s, was put to rest by the ...READ»
A German company has found a "magic formula" to make a tough, resilient, moldable and recyclable plastic-like substance called Arboform from lignin, a component of wood. Intriguingly, lignin is currently a byproduct of paper ...READ»
Pasadena's Art Center College of Design is in the middle of a three-day summit on sustainable mobility and the future of the automotive industry, bringing designers together with political leaders like Rep. Edward Markey and LA's ...READ»
The Obama stimulus signed yesterday contains $11 billion for technological upgrades to the electric grid. Huge companies like IBM, Cisco, GE, and now Google all have initiatives and investments in the so-called "smart grid." But ...READ»
Sirius XM Satellite Radio is filing for bankruptcy. Back in the early 2000s, it seemed like the future of radio: Sirius and XM, each with hundreds of channels, ready to take you from shock jocks to swing bands to comedy to grunge to ...READ»
Is the green energy future big or small?
Should the taxpayers and utilities be investing hundreds of billions in new heavy-metal infrastructure to transmit renewable energy to big cities from massive centralized installations in the ...READ»
Think: did you leave a light on this morning? What if you could pull up your homepage and find out, right now?
As I wrote about last fall, companies from IBM and GE to startups are getting excited about green IT: Managing natural ...READ»
It's become commonplace in the sustainability world to say water is the oil of the 21st century. But it may be more accurate to say it's the new carbon. The problem is not about absolute scarcity--after all, the world's supply of ...READ»
Add dairy farmers to Campbell Soup on the list of those most likely to thrive through the downturn. A new bill sponsored by the senator from Nebraska--Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE)--would subsidize the production of "biogas"--a renewable ...READ»
Manufacturing costs for new solar technologies like thin-film and monocrystalline PV will drop below $1.50 a watt within the next few years, according to new projections by Greentech Media and the nonprofit Prometheus Institute. ...READ»
Surprisingly, when it comes to making OJ, it's not the packaging or the trucks--growing the fruit produces the single greatest proportion of the carbon footprint of Tropicana orange juice, as PepsiCo just hired an outside consultant ...READ»
Since I wrote about Mint in Fast Company I've been a user of their product, which has grown to become the most popular free online personal finance software. Yesterday I got an email that has made me an even more loyal ...READ»
One creative source of revenue New York City is considering: Carbon credits. Yesterday, public transit chief Eliot Sander was on the Brian Lehrer show discussing the "doomsday budget", which basically is a choice between bad and ...READ»
Last year, 41 Oma premium bluefin tuna were on the block for the New Year's auction at Tokyo's famous Tsukiji Market, the biggest fish market in the world. This year, there were only four--and one of them sold for a seven-year high of ...READ»
Green energy is still a lightning-fast growth area in venture capital--VC investment in green energy technologies in 2008 exceeded $7.7 billion in more than 350 deals, more than double last year’s dollar totals, according to ...READ»
Wind power was recently ranked in a comprehensive research study as the top energy alternative in terms of environmental impact and total power potential.
The steel industry, a bellwether of the US economy, is in a serious slump--its ...READ»
A friend of mine from college has always been committed to fighting international poverty. First she worked for some of the big aid organizations like Mercy Corps and CARE. Then she took a job with a more entrepreneurial, ...READ»
A couple of weeks ago the usually conservative International Energy Agency predicted that world oil production would peak by 2020. Peak oil has moved in a short time from an obsession somewhere between the Warren Commission and the ...READ»
