"The Center" will be a city for 350,000, but none will live there. Instead, it will be used to see how the innovations that will power cities of the future will run in the real world.READ MORE›
Google has poured hundreds of millions of bucks into clean power over the last few months. But their newest announcement isn't about utilities, it's about getting solar panels on as many houses as possible.READ MORE›
GE has just unveiled a new two-stage version of its turbocharged gas engines which will give them higher output and efficiency. The technology, which will initially be fitted to the firm's existing Jensbacher 624 gas engines, is aimed ...READ MORE›
A new photography show produced for the U.N.'s World Environment Day portrays Rwanda as a model of sustainable development where humans live and work in harmony with nature.READ MORE›
Philips has just unveiled what it's calling the "world's first LED replacement for [the] most common household bulb," taking aim at the aging, inefficient 60W gizmo that's been lighting our homes since forever. This is the future of ...READ MORE›
The Obama Administration released its proposed 2011 budget this week, and, unsurprisingly, there is plenty of cash in store for sustainable initiatives--and not so much for oil and natural gas companies.
Some of the highlights: ...READ MORE›
The good news: The unemployment rate in the U.S. isn't rising. The bad news: It's still holding steady at 10%, and 85,000 jobs were lost just in the past month. The nation's luck might turn around, however, with news today that the ...READ MORE›
Have a brilliant green tech idea that you're just itching to get to store shelves? Now's the time to file a patent. The U.S. government is cutting the average review time for green technology-related patents from 40 months to 12 ...READ MORE›
This past October, the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) program gave $151 million to so-called "moonshot" green tech companies that are working on projects that might not otherwise have a ...READ MORE›
The design is complex, the island logic simple: Find a cheaper way to cool tropical buildings and you can spend less on imported oil. All that money saved on overhead means--Aloha!--more clam shells for everyone to dump back into ...READ MORE›
The Obama administration has been good to the renewable energy industry, with the Department of Energy announcing in July that it will give up to $30 billion in loan guarantees to renewable energy projects. Now the DOE is going out ...READ MORE›
As part of an effort to help states continue to grow these industries, the NGA Center has created a series of reports analyzing emerging "green" economies in each state in terms of the scope of green business activity reveals areas of comparative advantage, promising areas for workforce development and opportunities for building partnerships within and across green industry segments. It is intended that this information be used to help states analyze their current efforts and form strategies to grow green economies.READ MORE›
The green-tech rating EPEAT system, found on things like newer PC monitors, has become so successful that its parent body, the Green Electronics Council, is taking it global. It sounds like good news, but is it?
Even if you don't ...READ MORE›
VC powerhouse Kleiner Perkins and Texas oilman T. Boon Pickens, two outspoken advocates of green transit technology, have teamed up to provide V-Vehicle Company $100 million to bring a “high quality, environmentally friendly and ...READ MORE›
Smartphones, flat-screens, robots, green tech: We wade through it all to ID the coolest innovations, including Sony's absurdly svelte, impressively vibrant XEL01 TV screen and the newly customizable Flip Mino video camera.READ MORE›
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