Hot Idea: Recycling Wasted Energy
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffComputers and cacti go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Bill McKibben once lamented the unsexiness of waste heat recovery, an energy efficiency technique that languishes in obscurity despite its potentially huge environmental benefits. Perhaps this story ...
Climate Change is a Problem We Can Choose to Tackle
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Saul Griffith in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Saul Griffith is a remarkable guy: inventor, entrepreneur, Squid Labs, ThinkCycle and Instructables founder, columnist, genius ...
Zero Impact Within Our Lifetimes
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The time has come to reconcile ourselves with a fundamental truth. Most of us were ...
How Green Is Your College?
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffLast week, the Sustainable Endowments Institute released its 2009 Green Report Card. As GreenBiz reports, it compiles the green and not-so-green aspects of 300 colleges and universities through the United States and Canada. The Report Card was designed to identify ...
Solar Incentives Threaten Local Ownership
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffLarge, remote concentrating solar power systems are the new darlings of the solar industry. Some observers now see centralized, not decentralized solar as the future. But a new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance reveals that the economic advantage ...
BP Solar And OCR Solar & Roofing Work Together On SMUD’s “Home Of The Future”
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBP Solar and OCR Solar & Roofing have teamed up with R.J. Walter Homes and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to create the “Home of the Future” in Folsom. With the home’s design and construction materials focusing on ...
Spire Recognized as One of the Fastest-Growing Public Companies in Massachusetts
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBEDFORD, MA – September 30, 2008 – Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced it has been recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one ...
PV Powered Selected By US Department of Energy
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffPV Powered, Inc. announced today that it has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and contract manager, Sandia National Laboratories, for an award under the Solar Energy Grid Integration System (SEGIS) program. SEGIS is a $24 ...
Fraunhofer ISE Researchers Achieve 39.7% Solar Cell Efficiency
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAt 39.7% efficiency for a multijunction solar cell, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg have exceeded their own efficiency record of 37.6%, which they achieved in July of this year. The result was reached ...
Neo Solar Seals 7-Year Deal with REC
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffNeo Solar Power (NSP), a manufacturer of solar cells, announced that it has sealed a 7-year wafer supply contract with REC ScanWafer AS. Under the contract, REC will provide NSP solar wafers for the period from January 1, 2009 to ...
BC Hydro Accepts Hawkeye Hydro Bid
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffHawkeye Energy Corporation has announced that BC Hydro has officially accepted the company as a proponent for its 2008 Clean Power Call (CPC).
RGGI States’ First CO2 Auction Underway
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) this week announced that the auctioning of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions allowances in North America is off to a strong start. All of the 12,565,387 allowances offered for sale on ...
Solar Power Partners Raises US $100M
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSolar Power Partners Inc. (SPP) announced that it has closed approximately US $100 million of equity and debt financing to date. Additionally, SPP expects to close an additional US $60 million in committed project financing in 2008.
Fotowatio Acquires Four Solar Plants
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffFour solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants collectively rated at 32 megawatts (MW) have been acquired by Spanish solar firm Fotowatio. Located in Murcia, Spain, the four grid-connected plants, Calasparra I & II and Fuente Alamo II & III, were sold ...
Rhode Island Chooses Deepwater Wind for Off-Shore Wind Farm
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffRhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri announced last week that Deepwater Wind was chosen as the developer to construct a wind energy project off the shores of Rhode Island that could provide 1.3 million megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity per year, 15 ...
Building Connections Between Cultures
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffIf you’ve been to a tech conference in the past five years, there’s a good chance you’ve also been to an “unconference“. Unconferences work to break down the barrier between speakers and audience, inviting all attendees ...
Magazines: Nozone X, a Minima, Neural, Cluster and Volume
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffIt's been a long Summer and i spent it with the usual heap of magazines. Here's some of the best that fell into my hands: I received the latest edition of Volume over the Summer but it ...
GE and Google Call for Clean Energy Policies
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Green News | Comments OffThe recently announced alliance between technology giants General Electric and Google may provide the lobbying arsenal necessary for the U.S. to overhaul an outdated electric grid widely considered as a barricade to a low-carbon future. The ...
Social Software, Digital Activism and Cute Cats
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Ethan's talk at ETech was one of my favorite parts of this year's conference. He wrote ...
Worldchanging Interview: HelioVolt CEO B.J. Stanbery
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Jon Lebkowsky in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Austin-based HelioVolt Corporation has raised over $100 million in investment capital to finance production of ...