September 3, 2010
September 2, 2010
What will 2010 be remembered for? According to a leaked report from a German think tank, this could be the year that witnesses the arrival of peak oil: that is, a global…
September 1, 2010
With cleantech and green technologies becoming ever more important at the global level, it’s no surprise that startups in those areas have taken a record number of…
Rising petrol prices and increasingly difficult-to-extract oil might threaten the US’s car-dependent transportation system, but engineering executives see an even more pressing problem ahead: the need to develop and…
August 31, 2010
The restaurant chain Otarian hopes to entice customers into reducing their environmental impact with a carrot, rather than a stick. Its strategy? Encourage patrons to earn “Carbon Karma” credits rather than…
By the end of next year, the Canadian city of Edmonton could be home to an energy plant like no other: the world’s first industrial-scale municipal facility to take solid waste and convert it into…
August 27, 2010
Cleantech companies sell technology products and services that solve environmental problems, ranging from traffic monitoring solutions to bioplastics made from sewage sludge to new solar…
August 26, 2010
That deafening silence you hear? It’s all the sustainability-aware media, CEOs and investors who — in seeking to maintain the high ground,…
It’s an oxymoron, but not an impossible one: “Dry water.”In fact, the powdery version of Earth’s most abundant liquid could potentially hold the key to reversing global warming, harnessing…
The future of transport might lie with electric cars, but US consumers aren’t quite ready yet to lead the charge.Seventy-eight per cent of adults surveyed online by the…
