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Fast Company Feature | November 2008 | 0 recommendations

Houston Launches Multimillion-Dollar Effort to Shield Its Economy

| by Ryan Blitstein

When Vestas, the world's largest wind-turbine manufacturer, announced plans for a new U.S. research center, 42 states lined up to...

Member Blog | November 1, 2008 3:07 pm | 1 recommendation

Newt Gingrich: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

| posted by Kelly Jad'on

  by Kelly Jad'on Book Review:...

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FC Design Expert | October 24, 2008 11:58 am | 1 recommendation

Reports of the Death of Renewable Energy are Greatly Exaggerated

| posted by Glenn Croston

The reports of the death of renewable energy are greatly exaggerated. The crashing price of oil is driving some to predict the ...

FC Design Expert | October 16, 2008 5:53 pm | 1 recommendation

Green Design in the age of 'Drill, Baby, Drill'

| posted by David-Henry Oliver

This is a design blog, not a political blog, but it...

FC Design Expert | October 6, 2008 11:53 am | 1 recommendation

Bail-out or Build-out?

| posted by Terry Tamminen

As Washington and Wall Street dicker over a financial rescue plan, everyone is missing the real opportunity to fix the problem. Some see the...

FC Design Expert | October 3, 2008 3:32 pm | 2 recommendations

When Coal Makes You Thirsty

| posted by Terry Tamminen

Much is written about our oil addiction, but we are addicted to another fossil-drug - - coal. And while oil steals the breath from our kids and...

Renewable Minute

| by Bill Baer

The renewable energy radio show

Member Blog | September 17, 2008 4:23 pm | 1 recommendation

Expect a gas "pinch" from Ike?

| posted by Benjamin Wojcikiewicz

I'm fairly frustrated with oil companies and have been for a long time. I think that a lot of it comes from the fact that, even with a fuel-mizer...

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FC Now Staff Blog | September 23, 2008 5:17 pm | 2 recommendations

Entrepreneur Billionaire Shares His Ideas for a Green Future

| posted by Sean Ludwig

Sam Wyly’s path from start-up entrepreneur to billionaire business and green-energy guru has been a long and winding one. He started...

FC Design Expert | September 8, 2008 6:55 pm | 1 recommendation

Cap, Baby, Cap

| posted by Terry Tamminen

Political conventions are largely mass entertainment for the party faithful, punctuated by self-serving interpretations of both current events...

FC Design Expert | October 13, 2008 3:23 pm | 1 recommendation

The America Price

| posted by Terry Tamminen

Commentators have coined a term that is being hotly debated in business, political, and social settings these days - - the “China...

FC Now Staff Blog | July 29, 2008 1:29 pm | 4 recommendations

Let’s Hear it For T. Boone Pickens

| posted by Rip Empson

If you have cable TV, you’ve probably seen the new “energy awareness” commercial, paid-for and narrated-by ...

Member Blog | July 11, 2008 12:37 pm | 2 recommendations

Microwaving Garbage into Gas

| posted by Francisco Dao

With so many people jumping on the “green technology” bandwagon these days, it can be extremely difficult to separate the snake oil salesmen...

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FC Design Expert | June 30, 2008 11:05 am | 0 recommendations

The Easy Way Out

| posted by Terry Tamminen

Governor Charlie Crist hosted a Climate Summit in Miami this week and here are a few observations from the front row… In his...

FC Design Expert | June 13, 2008 12:24 pm | 0 recommendations

And Then There Were Two

| posted by Terry Tamminen

Yes, it finally happened. We’re down to two in the race. The others have dropped out, the final holdout brushed aside and...

FC Now Staff Blog | June 10, 2008 10:49 am | 1 recommendation

An Inconvenient Economy

| posted by Rip Empson

On Friday, the price of oil jumped a record $10.75 per barrel, to more than $138, immediately sending the dollar into a freefall and causing the...

Fast Company Feature | May 2008 | 15 recommendations

Texas Oil Tycoon Tackles Renewable Energy

| by David Case

As you alight from the elevator, you see, at the end of a long, paneled corridor, a huge Wilson Hurley painting of a Mars sunset...

Fast Company Feature | May 2008 | 8 recommendations

China Saps Mozambique of Timber Resources

| by Richard Behar

In a 4x4 vehicle arranged by a local group that monitors Mozambique's forests, I travel to Maganja da Costa in the once-heavily-wooded Zambezia...

FC Design Expert | August 14, 2008 12:09 pm | 1 recommendation

Can oil prices drive Innovation?

| posted by Mark Dziersk

Sorry all regarding the delay in activity, I have been away.  Back to regular blogging directly. Here's a  starter. In a recent...

FC Design Expert | May 2, 2008 4:24 pm | 1 recommendation

A Level Playing Field

| posted by Terry Tamminen

Everyone hates their taxes being spent on subsidies - -...

OffShore Technology Conference

| by Alexandra Zendrian

With prices having pierced the $100-a-barrel mark, there's no avoiding talk of oil these days. The gooey black stuff gets major play this month at a...

2008 International Oil Spill Conference

| by Gloria Sin

The 2008 International Oil Spill Conference (May 4-8) is a forum for professionals from the international community, the private sector,...

Offshore Technology Conference

| by Gloria Sin

What prices having pierced the $100-a-barrel mark, there's no avoiding talk of oil these days. The gooey black stuff gets major play this month at a...

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