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Archive for December, 2008

Year in Review 2008: Best in Energy

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments Off

As we look forward to the new year, we've also reflected on the old, and rediscovered some of the great events, innovations, interviews and debates that 2008 had to offer. For the next week, we will ...

2008 Wrap-up: RenewableEnergyWorld.com Keeps Growing and Growing

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

To use an old cliche, it's been a banner year here at RenewableEnergyWorld.com. Despite the worldwide downturn of financial markets and the global credit crisis, many Renewable Energy companies continue to thrive and our publication is no exception.

Solar Stadium in Taiwan Close to Completion

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Construction on the main stadium for the World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan will be complete by the end of this year. The new sports arena is also Taiwan's largest photovoltaic installation to date - fitted with solar modules manufactured ...

Renewable Energy to Hit Italian Docks

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

A pilot project to enable ships to shut down their engines while in port has been launched by Enel and the Port Authority of Civitavecchia, Fiumicino and Gaeta, with the technical support of Fincantieri in Italy. The project will supply ...

China Sunergy Announces 22-MW Deal with Solarwatt AG

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

China Sunergy Co. Ltd. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Solarwatt AG, to provide 22 megawatts (MW) of solar cells over the course of 2009.

On the trail of Dell’s carbon footprint

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

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Mapping: Infrastructure and Flow

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Big Systems - Global Institutions, Governance and Histo, Green News | Comments Off

I love airline route maps. I’ve fallen asleep staring at the tangle of possible journeys so often that I sometimes confuse the capillaries I see with my eyes closed with the red paths of Northwest flights ...

Year in Review 2008: Best in Business

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments Off

As we look forward to the new year, we've also reflected on the old, and rediscovered some of the great events, innovations, interviews and debates that 2008 had to offer. For the next week, we will ...

University of Michigan & Fraunhofer Researching Energy Innovations for Transportation

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

A new program undertaken by the University of Michigan (U-M) and Franuhofer will award seed money grants of up to US $200,000 annually for two years to projects that explore alternative energy innovations for transportation.

SunRun & OCR Introduce New Rooftop Solar System

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

SunRun and OCR Solar & Roofing announced a new partnership that will expand solar service and bring roof-integrated solar electric systems to more homeowners throughout Northern California. OCR is SunRun's first partner to specialize in roof-integrated solar applications. Through this ...

Solar Works & SolarWrights Complete Integration: Now Called Alteris

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Solar Works Inc. and SolarWrights Inc. announced the new name of their united enterprise: Alteris Renewables Inc. The name change is intended to better convey the company's expanded offering of renewable energy solutions that include solar electric, solar thermal ...

2008 Wrap-up: What Will A Financially Disastrous Year Mean for Renewables?

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

This year was dominated by bad financial news – very bad financial news. Renewables have certainly had their fair share of troubles associated with the financial crisis; yet somehow they've seemed to fare better than most industries. It's still uncertain ...

Lazy Dystopias

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Imagining the Future | Comments Off

Recently, I've been buried in a bumper crop of lazy dystopias. Now, I'm not against dystopian fiction as a means of social critique. Not at all. I think showing how present intentions may come to grief is ...

The Street as Platform

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Leapfrogging | Comments Off

I realize now that I've been delinquent in recommending Dan Hill's truly excellent speculative essay The Street as Platform, which explores a cross-section of all the ways that urban environments have become suffused with data. It's ...

What if Climate Change is Not an Energy Problem?

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments Off

Here's a thought I've been kicking around, and I'd like your ideas. What if, contrary to conventional wisdom, climate change is not actually primarily an energy problem, and by thinking of it as an energy problem, ...

Green tech year in preview

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

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Headlines from Worldchanging Seattle (12/29/08)

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in About Worldchanging, Green News | Comments Off

The recent snowfall here in Seattle, and its impact on all of the city's neighborhoods, has helped us see many of the things we take for granted in new ways. It's easier, for example, to imagine ...

Year in Review 2008: Best in Cities

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Features, Green News | Comments Off

As we look forward to the new year, we've also reflected on the old, and rediscovered some of the great events, innovations, interviews and debates that 2008 had to offer. For the next week, we will ...

‘CBS Early Show’: Don’t take out the trash, live with it

Monday, December 29th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

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The Composite Industry and Renewable Energy

Sunday, December 28th, 2008 Posted in Green News | Comments Off

Composite construction refers to any structure with two or more distinct materials that are combined to create an engineered product with properties "greater that the sum of its parts."