HR BioPetroleum To Develop Algae Facility on Maui
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffHR BioPetroleum, Alexander & Baldwin Inc., Hawaiian Electric Company and Maui Electric Company announced that they have signed memoranda of understanding to pursue the joint development of a commercial-scale microalgae facility on Maui to produce lipid oil for conversion to ...
SolFocus Completes Initial Phase of 3-MW CPV Project
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSolFocus announced the completion of its initial phase of the world's first full scale concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power plant. This facility, owned by the Institute of Concentration Photovoltaic Systems (ISFOC), has been created both as a power production facility ...
Day4 Solar Cells Reach 19% Efficiency
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffDay4 Energy Inc. announced that its R&D program, after months of research and experimental trials, has developed a design and manufacturing process for its Generation II solar cells with efficiency up to 19 percent on mono-crystalline and 18 percent on ...
Renewable Energy Tax Credit Legislation Voted Down in U.S. Senate
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffA bill introduced by Senate Tax Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) containing a one-year renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) extension and a small wind turbine investment tax credit has failed to move ...
Internet Censorship and Nose-Thumbing
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffThere’s understandable outcry about revelations that reporters covering the Olympics in Beijing will be using censored internet connections which block access to sites on sensitive topics, like human rights and Falun Gong. In classic fashion, a ...
Thoughtful new series: BBtv World
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffThough my medium has always been the written word, I often marvel at how efficiently video can convey thoughts and feelings. Worldchanging ally Xeni Jardin recently alerted us to BBtv World, a new series she's launching ...
GlobalGiving Goes Green
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Refugees and Relief | Comments OffStories of distant, weather-rocked communities, from Katerina to China, Thailand to Africa, are enough to make any news reader feel a little helpless. The problems are big, and the ways support those trying to make ...
Video: Garage finds business ripe for hybrids
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13-foot grass next hope for ethanol production?
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The Afterlife of German Coal Mining
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffThis is the second feature in a weekly, three-part series on green jobs in various sectors of the global economy. Read Part 1 here. It was Jochen Seifert's job to adjust a conveyor belt under Germany's ...
Concrete Dragon, a Book Review
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffWe've written a lot about China and the future of the planet. If you want to better understand the role China will play in the future, you might want to start with The Concrete Dragon: China's ...
Social Lions, Fiscally-Literate Mobile Phones
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffOne of the best parts of this gathering at Microsoft is not the cool new toys coming from Microsoft research, but the ideas presented by nine design schools who’ve been invited to the event. In a ...
Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, News and Views | Comments OffFor a little more than a year now, I’ve been carrying in my wallet a $500 Zimbabwean bearer cheque, an odd form of currency designed to expire after a few months, a recognition of the overwhelming ...
Stealth green chemistry start-up Segetis nabs ex-Dow exec
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Challenges of Green Residential Development: Resistance to Change Intro
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffIt all begins with education. Consumer awareness on green building is murky. To put it succinctly it is as clear as mud to most. If you ask anybody what going green means to them, they will likely respond, "environmentally friendly, ...
Video: Tesla Roadster’s touch-screen interface
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Intel expands solar focus with $12.5 million for Voltaix
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