Cleantech growth continues at a pace: GE Energy Financial Services recently raised its 2010 renewable energy investing target by 50 percent to $6 billion. GE Energy Financial Services recently crossed the $3 billion mark with a $300 million investment in wind projects spanning four states. “Thanks to our strong customer relationships, our expertise, GE’s technical […]
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Baking Plastic from Plants
 Cnet has a photo story on California-based Cereplast, makers of starch-based, renewable plastics: Cereplast has been brewing plant-based plastics since 2001. The company sells the bioplastic resin to companies that manufacture compostable plates, cups, and utensils. This factory in Hawthorne, Calif., churns out 45 million pounds of raw bioplastic each year. Bioplastics could expand […]
More on Saatchi S
Some more on Saatchi’s acquisition of Act Now: PUBLICIS GROUPE ACQUIRES ACT NOW, TOP SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANCY • Act Now to Become Saatchi & Saatchi S, part of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide • Move Strengthens Publicis Groupe in Sustainability Communications Adam Werbach, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S said in a release yesterday: “Saatchi & Saatchi […]
Adam Werbach announces SaatchiS
Adam Werbach is a true leader in the green movement and today he announced another big deal – the launch of Saatchi & Saatchi S. After years in the environmental movement he founded Act Now to help commercial enterprises green up their act. Now they’re taking the product and process innovation, grassroots workforce engagement, marketing […]
Re-Designing the Industrial System
In an extended Industry Week interview Interface, Inc. founder and chairman Ray Anderson calls for “…a vast, ethically driven, re-design of the industrial system, triggered by an equally vast mind-shift.” Interface is one of the leading commercial exponents of the emerging science of biomimicry. Take a few minutes to watch Anderson’s interview in The Corporation, […]
Zerofootprint Gets Calculated About Climate Change
“It’s hard to tell, at first glance, whether Zerofootprint is a serious business or a feel-good environmental action group. The answer, easily discovered before long, is that it is likely both…the company as two separate entities: A non-profit umbrella group, the Zerofootprint Foundation, and separate for-profit arms that handle building out the calculator for cities […]
Consumer-Generated Power
Dutch startup Qurrent is taking the notion of consumer-generated power a step further with technology to enable neighbourhood-wide energy networks. Continued at Springwise…
Delphi Introduces Innovative Electronics Cooling Systems at CES
 “The patented technology behind these fans was developed through a license agreement with PaxIT, utilizing technology developed by PAX Scientific, Inc. This industrial design firm specializes in identifying, evaluating and replicating the flow efficiencies of nature into streamlined design geometries, a concept known as biomimicry. In the case of Delphi’s fan technology, the use […]