SolarCity, a California-based solar energy company, is hoping to revolutionize the renewable energy industry, which has been suffering from difficult financial times as of late.
Chicago is quickly becoming one of the leading cities in cleantech technology research. Argonne National Laboratory, just ouside the city, was recently selected to host
‘The green economy’ is an often-used but rarely defined term. While many understand that the term refers to the economic sector that produces goods and
Two Columbia University scientists have mapped irrigation over time. Between 1901 and 2002, irrigated land has jumped five-fold, helping to feed today’s six billion people.
You don’t have to be an angel to find this New York Times article interesting. It says that venture capitalists invest these days not in
Venture capitalists invested billions in Silicon Valley’s technology firms. Their next big thing is sustainable agriculture. More and more are aware that conventional agriculture wastes
The American South both consumes lots of fossil energy and lags in energy efficiency. A new study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology
It’s depressing. In 2008, United States Sugar agreed to sell Florida large tracts of land in the Everglades, a sale that would foster their recovery
The stimulus bill allocates $400 million for research to find new ways to produce, consume and store energy. Coordinating the undertaking is the Advanced Research
Where do you fill up an electric car? Today, almost nowhere. However, that could change if start-up Better Place succeeds in creating a network of
This article by Oliver Morton in The Economist stresses the human element of curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Although technological breakthroughs will occur, and be
Here’s UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s assessment of the Copenhagen conference, as reported in the New York Times. His main point: Follow the money. Kyoto,
