St. Lucia’s government signed an agreement with US-based Qualibou Energy for the development of a geothermal plant. The plant will generate 12 megawatts of electricity by 2012, and another 108 MW of capacity will be in operation by 2015.
Levi’s started a Care to Air competition where designers create a new air drying contraption, countering the claim that clotheslines are unsightly—while offering the winner a $10,000 prize. Now the finalists will present their design idea on Monday, August 16 in San Francisco.
Each day about 600 trucks from Amsterdam and 18 other cities drive up a huge ramp to the waste-to-fuel power plant, which lies in the western dockyards of this city of 750,000. The two incineration plants, built in 1993 and 2007, turn about 1.4 million tons of garbage into electricity.
Earth Hour will occur Saturday, March 27, between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. local time around the world. Some may scoff and say it’s a fad: but in my opinion, it’s more important and meaningful than Earth Day. Here’s why.
Throughout 137 countries and countless towns and cities, the lights will go off for one hour Saturday [...]
“It’s about seeing the world as what it can be and not what it is.” – K.R. Sridhar, founder and CEO of Bloom Energy.
I come back from Brazil, functioning on two nights of little sleep, but I cannot restrain myself from gushing and hoping that the much hyped “Bloom Box,” which launched today, will revamp our [...]
Thomas Friedman with CNN’s Campbell Brown
I had almost forgotten about CNN, but today at the gym, I spent my time on the elliptical machine watching Campbell Brown interview’s of Thomas Friedman. I still have not read Friedman’s book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, but I’m motivated to snag a copy after watching him this afternoon. His [...]
Everyone is on the renewable energy bandwagon. Supposed visionaries like T. Boone Pickens preached about using wind in the nation’s heartland to provide electricity for the United States’ major population centers. Here’s the problem: massively sized projects such as Pickens’ plan means building huge networks of transmission lines that are expensive and would take years [...]
We’re almost into November, which means planning the holidays, scoring last minute Halloween candy, and readying the house for winter, even if you live in Los Angeles. It’s also the time to sort out your favorite charities for tax-deductible donations, max out your health insurance plans, and scrounge for purchases for which you can get [...]
Imagine that you’re an entrepreneur . . . spent much time and capital developing a product that does some good—in this case, saving customers energy and MONEY—and then getting a nasty-gram from the government saying, well, you owe the utility all the money that you had saved your consumers.
Believe it or not, this happened in [...]
I’ve already discussed DME (dimethyl ether), as a huge potential fuel source. Most renewable energy advocates have never heard of it, but there’s vast potential for it. DME burns cleanly, gives off no particulates, and is readily available since it is a byproduct of coal extraction, natural gas production, and can be poached from biomass. [...]
On Wednesday I attended the Best Events Los Angeles conference as a guest of Jaime Nack, President of Three Squares Inc. The organization invited Jaime to speak about organizing “green” events at a time when companies and event planners don’t have the green to spend. Jaime was the Director of Sustainability and Greening Operations for [...]
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