Ethanol: A 20th Century Solution
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Alan AtKisson in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. My ethanol car is not looking so good these days. I don't mean the scratch on ...
Reducing the Impact of Metals
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. I'd love some help thinking something through. Jer's December post Your Stuff: If It Isn't Grown, It ...
Setting a Price on Carbon
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. Climate change is obviously an issue we pay a lot of attention to. But there are ...
Worldchanging Retrospective: Day 20
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments OffFive years ago, on October 1, we launched Worldchanging as a venue to find, discuss and imagine the world's most innovative solutions to the planet's most pressing problems. Since then, we've found a great and ...
Systems that Enable the Future We Want
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. Infrastructure bores us. Most people in the developed world spend a significant portion of their incomes ...
Re-Shirt: Reimaging the Cotton T
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Sanjay Khanna in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. By Sanjay Khanna On a summer day, walk down a typical street in almost any city in ...
Designing with Peak Population in Mind
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. Sometime in the latter half of this century, human population will peak. Having swelled to a ...
Home Delivery and the Bright Green Urban Experience
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. Most North Americans think of shopping and driving as fundamentally paired activities. After five decades of ...
Putting People in the Map
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Worldchanging Retro | Comments OffThis article was written by Chad Monfreda in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. The maps we make of the world say a lot about how we think of ourselves ...
REC Solar Brings Davis, CA Residents Together to Celebrate World’s Largest Solar Event
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe nation’s leading solar solutions provider, REC Solar, Inc. and the nonprofit American Solar Energy Society (ASES) are bringing Davis, CA residents together on Saturday, October 4, 2008 to take part in the world’s largest solar energy event—the 13th Annual ...
Solar Power Partners Secures $160 million in Financing
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffPOET to host grand opening for ethanol production facility near Marion, Ohio on October 24
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffOn October 24, POET will host a grand opening event for POET Biorefining – Marion, a $130 million ethanol production facility near Marion, Ohio. It will be the 26th POET production facility and the third in the state of Ohio. ...
Spain Makes Changes to Solar Tariff
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffAfter many nerve-wracking weeks for Spain's solar industry, the Spanish government has finally decided on changes to the country's feed-in tariff that seem to satisfy all parties. The changes were made because of concerns over unsustainable market growth.
Advancing Biomass in California
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffIn 2006, five months before signing the historic California Global Warming Solutions Act, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an Executive Order establishing a Bioenergy Action Plan. Those actions positioned California as a world leader in the race to develop renewable ...
Report: Global Green Job Market Expected To Explode
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffLast week four international organizations released a report on the global impact of the green economy. The report, entitled Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World, says that millions of new green jobs will be created across ...
BioSolar Reveals Cotton & Castor Beans Behind its Solar Technology
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffBioSolar Inc. revealed at the SPIE Symposium on Solar Applications and Energy earlier this month that materials derived from cotton and castor beans compose the company’s BioBacksheet. The backsheet is a protective covering, traditionally made from petroleum-based film, used in ...
Wind Power Holdings Raises US $50M
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffNorthern Power Systems Inc. announced that its parent company, Wind Power Holdings Inc., has completed a second round of financing with net proceeds of approximately US $37 million to support the growth and development of Northern Power's wind turbine business. ...
Sanyo To Build New Solar Ingot & Wafer Production Plant
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffSanyo North America Corporation has announced its decision to construct a new plant that will manufacture silicon ingots and solar wafers. The plant will be located at the Salem Renewable Energy and Technology Park in Salem, Oregon.
RWE To Acquire Biomass Project from Helius
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffHelius Energy Plc has announced the sale of its Stallingborough biomass-to-energy project to RWE Innogy UK, a wholly owned subsidiary of RWE AG. Under the terms of the agreement, RWE Innogy will acquire Helius Energy Alpha Ltd., which owns the ...
Carbon Seminar at CME Group Approaches
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments OffThe next Advanced Carbon Trading and Finance seminar will be held at CME Group's NYMEX on October 15th and 16th in New York.This seminar focuses on real world examples of trading for emissions and other commodities taught by carbon markets ...