Attention, budding businesspeople with ideas about how to change the way we manage energy at home: GE's Ecomagination initiative will soon be open to you.READ»
Hot on the heels of the latest group of Ecomagination challenge winners, GE has announced that it has joined an $8 million funding round for CoolPlanet Biofuels, a startup that turns plant waste and woodchips into biofuel. READ»
Among the winners of GE's Consumer Innovation Award is Clarian Power, a startup that plans to offer plug-n-play solar technology to the residential market for under $1,000.
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The electric giant announced a number of winners in its $200 million Ecomagination challenge today -- and invested another $55 million in power grid companies.READ»
The latest corporate crowdsourcing experiment comes via Toyota, which this week launched its "Ideas for Good" initiative--an opportunity for consumers to repurpose the company's automotive technology to benefit societyREAD»
GE thinks it can find excess cash your organization didn't realize it had through the ecomagination Treasure Hunt program, which aims to uncover energy savings at companies, universities, and even entire cities.READ»
Got a bright idea? How about an energy-saving one? GE announced today a $200 million "open innovation challenge" that invites inventors, entrepreneurs, and startups of all stripes to compete to develop the next-generation of power ...READ»
Climate activism isn't just for nonprofits and idealistic individuals. Sometime, major corporations get on board in a big way--literally, in the case of GE, which recently sent a 131-foot wind turbine blade to Washington, D.C.'s ...READ»
GE has a whole lot faith in its ecomagination initiative. So much faith, in fact, that the company is pumping $10 billion into the project's R&D over the next 5 years--effectively doubling its investment from the past 5 years. ...READ»
GE mirrors the American economy much better than most companies -- for good and ill. Last year, the credit squeeze assailed GE Capital, its financial-services arm; the company missed an earnings prediction, driving the stock price ...READ»
