Labor Dept. Announces $100M in Grants for Green Job Training
Approximately $28 million of the total funds will support projects in communities impacted by auto industry restructuring.
Nokia Tops Greenpeace Rankings of Electronics Companies
Greenpeace release 14th Guide to Greener Electronics at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Winning Bids Announced for World's Largest Offshore Wind Program
UK wants 25 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity by 2020.s
Cleantech Venture Investment Falls 33% in 2009
Fall-off was significantly less than in other sectors, and despite decreased sums, a record number of deals took place.
Tesla Motors to Buy Panasonic Battery Cells
Electric car company will shift to a different lithium-ion chemistry with Japanese supplier.
A123 Systems Forms JV With Largest Chinese Automaker
US lithium-ion battery maker teams up with SAIC Motor to build battery systems.
Green Week in Review podcast – January 8, 2010
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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable MP3 player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer’s media player each week. In this week’s show… Copenhagen Wrap-Up Copenhagen Shakeout Moderate Democrats Want to Drop Cap-And-Trade First Challenge to EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations 3 Stories: Energy Policy, EPA Legal Issues, Rare Earths Around the States US Car Fleet Shrinks For First Time in 65 Years Nitrogen Limits Skew Climate Change Forecasts Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com
New Uses for Solar
Among the many innovative technologies we’ll see in the near future, here are a couple of innovative uses for solar coming down the pike: solar energy beamed down from space and solar used to recycled carbon dioxide into fuel. These and hundreds of other technologies we can barely imagine today offer solutions to our climate change challenge – if we can cross the threshold and put a price on carbon through US legislation and if countries take a stand and commit to moving forward to a prosperous, green economy at Copenhagen. Solar from Space? Yes, the first contract for beaming solar energy from space has been approved. As part of its effort to obtain 33% of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved the contract. California utility PG&E will receive solar energy generated by Solaren Corp’s orbiting satellites through a long term power purchase agreement. Solaren says it can provide 1700 GW-hours of energy a year for the 15-year contract, which starts in 2016. Once the 200 MW solar plant is hoisted into space (no mean feat) it has the advantage of 24-hour a day sunlight. No clouds to worry about. The day/ […]
DOE Awards $47M To Improve IT Energy Efficiency
14 projects in three areas aim to decrease the energy usage of US data centers.
Investment Managers Not Weighing Climate Risks – Survey
Nearly half of money managers surveyed ignoring climate risks, considering it 'non-material'.
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