Those of you with college-age children getting back to school this weekend will be happy to know that their schools is teaching them to turn out the lights, even if you haven’t been successful.
A full two-thirds of the member schools in the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education have adopted energy-savings [...]

Here’s a rhetorical question: If you’re holding a seminar about the benefits of green technology strategy, should you really be giving away a gas card as one of the incentives to sign up? I thought not. For shame!
But, as Forrester Research points out in a new green IT research report, just because someone preaches green [...]

Who says green tech isn’t rocket science? Starting Sept. 1, green tech start-up Green Plug, which is pushing for the concept of a universal power converter, has appointed former White House advisor George Keyworth as the chairman of its board of directors.
Keyworth was Science Advisor to President Reagan and Director of the White House Office [...]

Trilliant, a green tech company that’s working with about 100 utilities on various smart grid deployments, has just closed a $40 million round of equity funding from a group of investors including affiliates of MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures.
Trilliant CEO Bill Vogel characterizes the investment as an important endorsement of his company as it [...]

Clean-tech is getting more and more political. With so much money and government subsidy, or not, at stake, it was inevitable. A leading greentech venture capitalist spoke at the Democratic Convention. And the governor of Montana spoke about declaring energy independence for America, and added we Americans could not simply drill our [...]

I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Intel Chairman Craig Barrett three times in my varied career, so I can say with authority that he is passionate about the environment. And about education. Then again, this is not surprising from technologist who also happens to be a Montana ranch owner.
In any event, Barrett used his [...]

It’s long been a popular fuel for industrial use, and even got some play in the transportation market. Now natural gas will be even more popular in America because IT’S ACTUALLY BECOMING MORE PLENTIFUL. U.S. oil production has been dropping annually since 1970. Natural gas production is increasing thanks to new technology [...]

The folks at the Idaho National Laboratory say they’ve come up with a way to make solar energy work round the clock. The sporadic nature of solar energy and the need thus to store day-time solar for night-time use has long been one of the biggest bugaboos cited by solar doubters. “Yeah, solar’s [...]

There’s an institute in Davis, California, dedicated to studying what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to people moving around. Headed by Dr. Dan Sperling the faculty and research staff have delved into all manner of transit modes, energy sources, etc. They don’t have Washington lobbyists or expensive commercials online or [...]

I have no children so I really can’t appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening and the air-conditioners can be [...]