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Ford's Nancy Lee Gioia On Leading Where The Rubber Meets The Road

In her 30 years with Ford Motor Company, Nancy Lee Gioia’s learned a thing or two about teamwork, sparking innovation, and being a driving force in what was once considered a man's industry. READ»

5 Steps To Measure The ROI Of Digital Media Channels

Are you measuring the interplay and overall performance of your combined paid, earned, and owned digital media channels? Here's a 5-step process to discover which elements are driving the most value. READ»

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China’s Clean-Energy Ambitions And The Role Of The U.S.

While we in the West are focused on innovative thinking, China is focused on innovative doing: they know that if they can make one, they can make a million; and in the energy field, this is increasingly becoming their edge.READ»

Innovation Agents: Britta Gross, Director of GM's Global Energy Systems and Infrastructure Commercialization

By the end of this year, there should be 15,000 Chevy Volts and Opel Amperas on the road, and hydrogen-powered vehicles aren't far behind. Where to power up all those electric cars? Britta Gross is working on the solution.READ»

China Wins 2010 Clean Energy Race With $54.4 Billion in Funding

A new report says the worldwide clean energy sector grew 30% from 2009 to $243 billion worth of finance and investment in technologies like wind, solar, biofuel, and geothermal.READ»

Now You Can Buy Bloom Energy's Mystical Fuel Cell Electricity Without Any Gizmos

Back in February 2010, Bloom Energy hit the news in a big way with its mysterious fuel-cell "Boxes" tech powering tech giants like Amazon. Now it's trying a new thing with "Electrons," selling its clean energy to customers without them needing to buy hardware.READ»

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Can the Green Building Council Polish LEED's Tarnished Standards?

There’s a big problem with snapping LEED ratings into building codes, which are equivalent to law: the United States Green Building Council is a private institution that has no public oversight.READ»

Mowing Down Climate Change With a Clean, Quiet Gardening Company

Kelly Giard's startup Clean Air Lawn Care uses solar-powered machines -- and like his lawns, it needed careful planning, constant care and cultivation to grow into the thriving business it is today. Here’s what Giard has to say about his green thumb.READ»

Fast, Green, Deep Orange EV Earns Grad Students an A+

For a group of eco-minded Clemson engineers, graduate school involved serious automotive innovation.READ»

The Downside of Clean Natural Gas: Contaminated Water

Natural gas is undoubtedly a practical source of electricity generation; it's plentiful, burns relatively clean, and produces minimal carbon dioxide. All good things--unless you happen to live near a drilling site.READ»

Windy City's Gusts Supply Power to Stylish Turbines

If you say it right, “urban turbine” rhymes. But can it move beyond its oxymoronic wordplay and into the real world? Designers and architects are beginning to say yes.READ»

Energy Galore as Whisky Island Harnesses Even More Scottish Tidal Power for Distilleries [Updated]

A prototype tidal energy turbine is to be built on the west coast of Scotland that will be the world's most advanced, claims the company that is to make the device. The $6.25 million contract has been won by Burntisland Fabrications*, ...READ»

World's Largest Tidal Turbine Spinning Up This Summer

The world's largest turbine--a 130-ton, metal shaft with twin rotating blades--is making its way on a barge from Invergordon, Scotland to the European Marine Energy Centre test site off the coast of Orkney. READ»

China Overtakes U.S. as Saudi Arabia of Wind Power

The United States has been called the Saudi Arabia of wind. But for the first time ever, China has exceeded the U.S. in newly installed wind capacity.READ»

CEOs: BP Spill Has Had Little Impact on Green Market

"The government's policy on energy in the United States is the most stupid, idiotic, inconsistent, crazy policy you could imagine," said Michael Garland, CEO of wind-powerhouse Pattern Energy Group. Garland spoke at the Renewable ...READ»

Fish Play Follow-the-Leader With Robofish, to Save Them From Turbine Doom

Scientists have discovered that real schools of real fish can be steered along by artificial robot fish. Weird. But the news has big implications for green power production. NYU-Poly's Dynamical Systems Laboratory, using the ...READ»

Southwest Lands in Two "Overpriced, Underserved" South Carolina Airports

Dave Ridley made good on his word. Southwest’s senior VP for marketing and revenue management said that the discount carrier chooses to add destinations based on whether a city’s airport is "overpriced and underserved" and ...READ»

How an N.C. Furniture Maker's Bright Green Roof Powers Up Its Bottom Line

From where Abel Zalcberg sits in his office at OFM headquarters in Holly Springs, North Carolina, he can’t see the 250-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system on the roof, but its ROI is a glaring factor in his bottom line. His company ...READ»

China Is Overtaking U.S in the Clean Energy Race

The U.S is adopting clean energy technologies at a rapid pace, but China is moving faster. Who needs Google when you have massive clean tech investments on your side? According to Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, ...READ»

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Bloom Energy Unveils Its Ultra-Secretive Bloom Box Fuel Cell

If you keep track of green technology companies, you may have heard rumblings about Bloom Energy, a secretive company that has raised nearly $400 million from investors like Kleiner Perkins for its supposedly game-changing fuel cell device. Now the eight year old company is finally emerging from the shadows with the Bloom Box. READ»