An old Cleantechnica writer (actually, our previous editor), Ariel Schwartz, wrote a great article this week on how a nascent smart grid helped to prevent brownouts and blackouts in New York during a record-breaking heat wave earlier this month. Although our…
Greencast: National Security and Climate Change, Bicycling Politicians, New National Parks in Russia…
Here is this week’s “greencast” or screencast of great green news from around the internet (that we didn’t already cover). Enjoy the video above via YouTube or in high definition on screenr. By the way, if you happen to notice the…
J.R. Ewing Promoting Solar Energy!
It has been fun discussing who knows J.R. Ewing and who doesn’t with some of my blogging friends (a discussion which got tipped off by engadget’s story, “J.R. Ewing’s back to promote solar power, no one under 30 knows why…
First Solar Buys NextLight for $297 Million
Solar energy giant First Solar closed a major deal to acquire NextLight Renewable Power, LLC for $297 million this week. Read the rest of this entry »
South Korea Companies and Government to Spend Billions More on Clean Energy
The top 30 industrial groups of South Korea are planning to invest 22.4 trillion won ($18.5 billion) in clean energy projects by 2013, Bloomberg reported this week. This proposed investment, which will be for 2011-2013, is a 48% increase over the…
US and Chinese Companies Team Up to Create High Efficiency Solar Cells
In a move to try to create a solar cell conversion efficiency rate of over 20%, Chinese company JA Solar Holdings has teamed up with US start-up Innovalight. The two have signed a 3-year contract “for work on Secium high efficiency solar…
The Return of the Bicycle
Following up on the bike naked, bike classy, bike-sharing, and other bike articles I’ve written lately, here is a great recent piece by Lester R. Brown on the return of the bike (subheadings added). Enjoy. Lester R. Brown The bicycle has many attractions…
World’s 1st Skyscraper with Built-In Wind Turbines (The Razor)
143 meters tall, rising above the crowd in Central London, Strata SE1 (or “the Razor” as it is popularly called, due to its sharp, angular design), is the first skyscraper in the world “to have electricity-generating wind turbines built into…
Lowest Gasoline Taxes Since the Beginning of the Automobile
One of the best ways to promote clean transportation is to discourage dirty transportation. But despite decades of Presidents saying they will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels (quoteshere; video here), nothing of the sort has happened and one of the…
Great Bike Video: Seersucker Social
Beautifully produced bike video of classy DC bicyclists below. Cycling in the United States is dominated by hard-core cyclists wearing bright, tight, cycling clothes. It is also quite big with ‘hipsters’ or others in the alternative lifestyle crowd. But, unlike…