In this month's issue of Fast Company, we looked at a startup and Cornell University spin-off Novomer, which claims it can make plastics from CO2 captured from factories. Now comes word that Novomer plans to make good on its claims ...READ»
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»
From the department of "how did this not happen 10 years ago," the EPA declared today that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health as well as the environment. Also: Drinking bleach not good.READ»
Coke has officially taken the lead in the ongoing sustainable cola wars with a pledge to cut hydrofluorocarbon (HFC), a potent greenhouse gas, from all vending machines and coolers by 2015. Pepsi, your move.READ»
Clean coal is the most elusive of green energy technologies--so elusive that nobody is sure if it's even possible. A New Jersey-based startup called Carbozyme not only thinks it is, the company also believes that human blood holds ...READ»
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a questionable technology at best, so it's a good thing that scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have come up with a potential alternative--the Sunshine to Petrol machine, which ...READ»
Carbon offsets have always been controversial, mainly because it's difficult to verify their reliability. Chalk up Responsible Travel, one of the first travel companies to offer carbon offsets to customers, as one of the biggest ...READ»
All the major automakers (with the glaring exception of Chrysler) are racing to bring plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs) to market, and with good reason. The cars decrease our reliance on ever-dwindling supplies of petroleum while ...READ»
The U.S health-care debate may be centered around money, but researchers at the University of Chicago recently published a research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association looking at a different kind of cost: the ...READ»
