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Electric vehicles are pretty neat (understatement), and they definitely have the potential to be one of the cleanest types of transportation around. Integrating them into the market,…
Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, Geneva Motor Show Toyota has let slip a few additional teasers for the company's FT-Bh concept headed to the Geneva Motor Show in March. As you may recall, the…
Along the top of this satellite image lies the coast of South Africa, but follow the sheets of clouds south about 500 miles, and a beautiful, incongruous-looking blue swirl appears. That…
I was intrigued to see an argument being made in a recent Brookings Institute report (Helper et al. here in PDF) that productivity gains do not lead to job losses in manufacturing. This post…
Note: This article frames biomass energy as ‘renewable’. It’s not. — GJEP Operator of Britain’s largest coal-fired power station blames lack of financial help from government for decision…
Filed under: Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USA E15, which is gasoline with a blend of 15 percent ethanol, may be cleared by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be sold as…
A century ago, a rookery of roughly 3 million king penguins on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island was nearly wiped out as a New Zealand blubber merchant boiled the birds to extract oil for lamps.…
Spending 3 hours in a ‘suite’ of the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff could never be called exciting in itself: the sandwiches are pretty gross and you feel like you’re in the middle of an…
Energy storage is always an issue, whether it’s storing enough power to run an electric car or storing enough solar-generated electricity to supply power while the sun isn’t shining. KEMA,…
I’ll be the first to admit that cheap natural gas prices are one of the biggest short-term threats to deployment of renewable energy in the U.S. today. With a glut of gas dropping prices to…
Some top wind energy news from the past week — several announcements from the past couple days, several big wind power projects (or wind farms), and a mysterious wind turbine order for the…
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Europe/EU A Czech Republic-based company that converts Skodas to electric vehicles will be showing two all-electric models at the Geneva Motor Show next month,…
From factory farming to excessive sprays to the emotion-based marketing of food, a new video nails the shortcomings of our food system. But it offers only partial solutions.
The current goings on in Australian politics are utterly fascinating. Combining elements of high-minded democratic governance with characteristics of a reality television show and UFC…
business_green Market has failed to provide sufficient new capacity to deal with increase in demand, energy minister warns
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Legislation and Policy, Renault, UK The UK's inclusion of battery-electric delivery vehicles in its alt-fuel rebate program makes Renault's Kangoo Van Z.E. eligible…
business_green UK's largest coal-fired power producer scraps dedicated biomass plan, but shifts focus to co-firing technology
business_green UK's largest coal-fired power producer scraps dedicated biomass plan, but shifts focus to co-firing technology
Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins sets out what Resilience 2.0 might look like.
business_green Moscow meeting agrees package of measures to push EU to "cancel or postpone" aviation emissions trading
business_green New 150MW offshore wind farm now fully online, providing power to about 100,000 homes a year
business_green Government leaves it late to meet deadline to appeal against previous solar court cases
business_green Prime minister writes to 100 Conservative backbenchers who complained about wind farm subsidies and planning rules
While everyone watches in awe as comet Gleick smashes into the Lunar bedrock, I have returned my tired head to the sea ice data. We are slowly stepping toward an improved understanding of sea…
Photo courtesy Gamesa Iberdrola Renewables and Gamesa have brought the 102 MW Cerro de Hula wind farm in Honduras online for owner Mesoamerica Energy. The largest wind farm in Central…
business_green Biofuels company claims CTec3 breakthrough is five times more efficient than current technologies
Biomicicry at its best University of Massachusetts Amherst Scientists Create Super-Strong Adhesive with Geckskin Biologists have long been drawn by the adhesive power of gecko feet that…
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Etc. Whether it's Volvo's project SARTRE or Google's driverless car, autonomous vehicles are on the horizon. The question now becomes, what will the view…
AP - As governments bicker over who should do what to slow the pace of global warming, the U.N.'s climate chief is increasingly looking to business leaders to show the way forward to a…
business_green Business group issues pre-budget call for Chancellor to replace Carbon Reduction Commitment with expanded Climate Chevy Levy
business_green Republican presidential candidate attacks Obama and party rival Mitt Romney for "falling prey to the rhetoric of the environmental left"
business_green Allan Zhang heads to London as firm gears up to meet growing demand for carbon management services from Chinese firms
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Gas prices hit record high on Iran-Israel…
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Fisker Fisker Automotive chief Henrik Fisker touted the advanced powertrain automaker's future without federal funding and is in daily talks for potential private…