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Having tried the softer approach last year, and failed to get an agreement at Copenhagen, this year, the US appears to be going for an all or nothing approach. In a briefing with journalists, Todd Stern, the chief climate envoy for the US, said, “We’re either going to see progress across the range of issues [...]
The University of Delaware has the oldest solar lab in the nation and is now looking to deck its rooftops with solar panels (perhaps now is a good time to go solar). The University of Delaware has announced that its new solar system (almost up and running) will save the University over $30,000 a year [...]
About 100 million Indian children do not have electricity in their schools. Of course, this means they are without computers, too. However, this may soon be changing. “Students in rural Indian villages are now in the process of testing the I-Slate, a solar-powered tablet PC developed by Rice University and Singapore’s Nanyang Tech University,” CalFinder [...]
Just in time for the holidays, GM has announced that it is investing $162 million more in three of small-car its manufacturing plants, including one that makes the generator for its Chevy Volt electric/gasoline vehicle, which Motor Trend has named 2011 Car of the Year. The investment means that GM will rehire laid-off workers as [...]
US Climate non-profit Carbonfund.org proposes that the climate talks at Cancun might achieve more without US participation. With no hope for any treaty ratification, (it takes 67 votes in the Senate) there is really no purpose in the US being there, and it drains resolve and negotiating time from serious negotiators. “The US has been [...]
Sun Catalytix, an American company founded by a MIT professor, is working on a low-cost ‘solar to hydrogen’ power system and plans to launch it within the next 18 months. The product which was announced about two years ago has attracted millions of dollars in investment from the Indian industrial giant Tata. The system works [...]
The incoming Congress is turning a lot of things around that were on a steady, even path forward, or looking to do so, at least. One big thing many incoming Republicans are taking aim at is high-speed rail. No surprise here, since high-speed rail has been a big focus of the Obama administration (due to [...]
Japan will contribute in terms of credit and technology in an ambitious and ground-breaking infrastructure project which will build 24 green cities in India’s western region. The project is part of the proposed $90 billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor mega-infrastructure project which aims at boosting the economic growth along the about 1500-km-long stretch that joins the [...]
