With some $4.5 billion in Federal grants spurring project development and investment, LED streetlights and smart grid technology are being combined and systems rolled out in a growing number of California cities.
Creator of the LonWorks open platform standard for smart grid and building/facilities energy management systems and products, San Jose-based Echelon Corp. is at the forefront of this wave of infrastructural change. The emerging market leader is involved in smart grid LED street lighting projects in Palo Alto, San Francisco, San Jose, as well as others in the US and abroad.
Farmers who don’t adapt to a low-flow farming method simply will not survive in the next twenty years.[read more]
The most interesting part of this project is the compromise between new construction and retrofitting. [read more]
Skyline Solar hopes to achieve grid parity within the next 18 months. According to research by Clean Edge, solar...[read more]
Wednesday marked the start of the Virtual Energy Forum, billed as the World's Largest Online Energy Conference. I was lucky...[read more]
We have to make sure that projects like Desertec are not just neo-colonists, stealing sun rather than gold[read more]
Earlier this week, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirmed that refrigerant chemicals...[read more]
Ten companies received Business Week’s (BW) Greener China Business Awards. Although still the world’s biggest user of coal powered energy,...[read more]
HP Expands its Eco Solutions Portfolio: Aims to Save 1B kWh by 2011 According to a recent report from the...[read more]
The tax-credit bond program for renewables has a volume cap of $2.4 billion in California -- a nice chunk of change.[read more]
Lining your home with mushrooms: Low-tech biotech.[read more]
Thirteen percent—more than 30 million tons—of the municipal solid waste collected in 2007 was food waste. This comes from...[read more]
Building upon my recent article, “Growing a Green IT Strategy,” this follow-up post provides a detailed presentation of the...[read more]
Currently, carbon emissions from IT and communication technologies represent 2% of global CO2 output, which puts information technology (IT)...[read more]
BP America and the Port of Long Beach Wednesday opened the world’s first oil tanker terminal equipped with shore power plugs.[read more]
Earlier this week, Volvo introduced a new model that integrates a plug-in lithium battery and a diesel engine, which Volvo...[read more]
Reuters TV has an interesting interview of Rich Kinder, the CEO of Kinder Morgan, who says that wind and solar...[read more]
The US market for small wind turbines grew significantly in 2008 despite the recession. New investment, new government incentives, greater economies of scale, and greater demand from residential and commercial customers all contributed.[read more]
The Plastiki could become the prototype poster child for a new industry that goes beyond the use of non-recyclable fiberglass for boats. [read more]
WNSF West Coast Summit Explores the Convergence of Businesswomen, Technology and Sustainability Silicon Valley’s businesswomen gathered on Thursday, May 21,...[read more]
Earlier this year, Google announced the development of a gadget called Google PowerMeter which delivers personal electricity usage data to...[read more]
Earlier this week, Boeing released it’s 2009 Environmental Report which highlights 2008 reductions in energy and water consumption and...[read more]
Renewable energy and sustainable lifestyles are coming together on American Indian tribal lands and in communities around the country, including an off-grid Native American eco- and cultural resort near the San Bernardino National Forest. Loan guarantees expected through the Dept. of Interior through Pres. Obama's "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" should provide a much needed boost.[read more]
Part one in a series of reports looking at Germany's energy and climate policies, and how they might serve as...[read more]
Industry leading business software systems SAP AG appears to be doing more than just "talking the talk" when it comes to environmental sustainability. It just unveiled a new 200,000-square foot addition to its Newton Square campus and announced that it's looking to acquire a fast rising carbon/greenhouse gas emissions enterprise software developer.[read more]
Ray Anderson, founder and Chairman of Interface, gave the keynote address this morning at the Sustainable Industries Economic Forum. Anderson...[read more]
Frito-Lay has announced plans to partner with 'Upcycler' Terracycle to give their chip bags a second life. Frito, which on...[read more]
Ecuador's making progress as it strives to meet a goal of eliminating fossil fuel use on the Galapagos Islands by 2015.[read more]
