Facebook, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Opower, and 16 US utility companies joined forces recently to create a social energy app launched today. “With an initial reach of 20 million households, the effort is one of the most significant to date, enabling people to take action and become … [continued]
Gaming for good, and especially social gaming for good, is all the rage. And I think there’s a lot of good reason for that. People love to play games, but why not create games that help solve real-world problems at the same time? It’s great to see more and … [continued]
Some recent climate and clean energy policy news from the corners of the interwebs: 1. The “Hubei Province has started preliminary work with current investment of 8.5 million Yuan ($1.34 million) to set up 13 research groups on the carbon emissions trading study.” 2. Beijing’s electronic exchange for its pilot … [continued]
So many stories have piled up in the past few days or so that I think it’s time for a few roundup posts. Here’s one on clean transportation: 1. Toyota reported today that its Prius model hit an all-time US sales record in March in the midst of high … [continued]
Trains are already super green and energy efficient. However, building them with much lighter materials could make them much more so. The good news is that some German researchers from a number of corporations and institutes have developed a replacement for aluminum or steel that is super strong yet 35% … [continued]
SSE and Wheelabrator Technologies have teamed up to create Multifuel Energy Ltd (MFE), a £300-million waste-to-energy power plant located at SSE’s Ferrybridge power station in West Yorkshire. The 50:50 joint venture “expects to begin full construction of a 68MW multifuel facility in late 2012 and complete the project by early 2015,” Wheelabrator Technologies … [continued]
Germany’s first electric taxi has been rolling around Munich for the last year — a Mitsubishi i-MiEV. Leased and operated by taxi company Isar-Funk, the little EV has been an experiment in balancing practicality with efficiency, and testing what it’s really like to spend the day in an electric car. […]
Nissan is convinced that electric cars are the wave of the future, and it’s doing quite a bit to get the rest of the world to agree. The latest efforts are in the form of “The Big Turn On” campaign, in which Nissan offers a prize of 30 quick chargers to the city with […]
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right? While that phrase has been around for ages, it has taken society a while to make it more applicable to industry. Industrial waste has long ended up… just waste (nothing like treasure at all). It has polluted our environments, damaged our … [continued]
The largest EV fast-charging network in the US rolled out in Illinois at the end of last week. Governor Pat Quinn and representatives from the Illinois Tollway, 350Green LLC and 7-Eleven, Inc. made the announcement last Friday, noting in a news release that drivers can now “charge an electric vehicle in under … [continued]
