Category Archives: energy

Conference: Biomimicry’s Climate-Change Solutions

On October 20th, The Biomimicry Institute in conjunction with the annual Bioneers conference will be holding a one-day conference “Biomimicry’s Climate-Change Solutions: How Would Nature Do It?” This landmark one-day intensive reveals the leading edge of biomimetic solutions to climate change, modeled on nature’s operating instructions. It’s designed for action-oriented professionals from the fields of […]

Clean Energy Trends

The latest annual edition of Clean Energy Trends has just been published. Joel Makower and his colleagues at Clean Edge have once again identified key trends affecting clean-energy markets and produced their annual forecast, along with 2007’s investment trends. The five trends we cover in this year’s Trends report cover electric cars (how all of […]

See It, Manage It

When marketing and branding sites like Springwise write about “visualizing energy use”, I feel like we’re making progress: Though by no means ubiquitous, household energy monitors have been around for some time. A few new entries into the space, however, add a splash of colour and style to make understanding energy consumption more intuitive. Wattson, […]

Google: “To help green technologies, amass scale.”

Ever wondered where your search requests goes when you hit the enter key? Read on… INDIAN WELLS, Calif., Feb 6 (Reuters) – Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research) is prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in big commercial alternative-energy projects that traditionally have had trouble getting financing, the executive in charge of […]

GE Energy Financial Services 2010 Investing Target: $6B

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 […]

Nature Inspires Ocean Power Solution

The emerging science of biomimicry has yielded another innovative solution to one of our most pressing problems: clean, renewable energy. BioPower Systems Awarded $5 Million Renewable Energy Development Grant Sydney, Australia, 4 February 2008: Australia’s ocean energy company, BioPower Systems Pty Limited, has been awarded a $5 million grant under the Australian Government’s AusIndustry Renewable […]

Negawatt Power

While solar, wind and biofuels have had plenty of attention, the unsung superhero of clean energy is Negawatts – a term coined by Amory Lovins in a 1989 Green Energy Conference. Two decades later, with a growing corporate interest in efficiency programs, energy efficiency may be this year’s hot trend in cleantech M&A & IPOs. […]