Paul Anastas pioneered the concept of green chemistry and has led the effort to rethink the way we design and make the products we use. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks about the challenges of bringing this approach to policy making and the frustrations of tackling environmental issues in a politically polarized era.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on May 15, 2012
By Rip Empson
There’s a lot of money floating around Silicon Valley right now, and it’s becoming easier and easier for entrepreneurs to get access to the capital they need to get their companies off the ground. [More]Posted by: JaredFurtado on May 14, 2012
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Posted by: JaredFurtado on May 10, 2012
Experimental drugs that show a big effect early in development for treating serious or life-threatening diseases would get a faster and cheaper path to U.S. approval, under a proposal likely to become law this year.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on May 8, 2012
A British scientist argues that global warming could lead to a future of more intense volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. And while some dismiss his views as preposterous, he points to a body of recent research that shows a troubling link between climate change and the Earth’s most destructive geological events.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on May 7, 2012
Posted by: JaredFurtado on May 3, 2012
The vast amount of glass in skyscrapers and office buildings represents enormous potential for an emerging technology that turns windows into solar panels. But major questions remain as to whether solar windows can be sufficiently inexpensive and efficient to be widely adopted.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 30, 2012
By: Stephen Lacey
It's time to take back the narrative about clean energy.
Since the bankruptcy of a few high-profile clean energy companies, political opponents and media pundits have tried to label the entire industry a failure. This is a gross distortion of the on-the- [More]Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 27, 2012
By: Yani Smith
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 25, 2012
By: Vanguard News
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 24, 2012
Why isn’t geothermal a bigger piece of the U.S. energy mix?
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 20, 2012
Interoperability tests show that “smart objects” like smart meters and grid gear can talk IP to one another.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 19, 2012
A German company borrows the materials and manufacturing process of OLED displays to make a new kind of solar panel.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 17, 2012
"It involves the ability to see the complex interdependencies of the natural resources system; to engage key stakeholders upstream, downstream, and across sectors; and to promote innovation with economic and ecological benefits within the resource system."
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 16, 2012
“By connecting it smartly, you are now able to leverage services from it that you didn’t know you had.”
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 13, 2012
By: David Roberts
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 12, 2012
NASA has developed a system capable of growing large amounts of algae for biofuel production within a network of floating plastic bags, an innovation its developers say could ultimately produce [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 11, 2012
By: Timothy Gardner
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 10, 2012
Most of us in the movement to solve climate change want to rock in the corner holding our knees, eating Chinese food out of the box. But that's neither productive nor healthy. Instead, we need to find signs of hope.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 9, 2012
"We need a massive collective marketing campaign for the Clean Tech Industries of America. We need to collaborate with a plan, well devised and executed, that flattens the pervasive misconceptions, throws elbows, is unyielding as a rapid response team, enables cleantech leaders to lead the discussion..."
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 5, 2012
By: David Ewing Duncan
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 3, 2012
By: Michael T. Klare
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Apr 2, 2012
Author/activist Bill McKibben says environmentalists cannot ease up after their recent victory in the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline. In a conversation with Yale Environment 360 contributor Elizabeth Kolbert, he talks about what he’s learned about the power of the fossil fuel industry — and why the battle over Keystone is far from over.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Mar 30, 2012
By: Alison Green
Thinking about using a potential employer's job offer to get your current company to counter and pay you more money?
Posted by: JoshuaFurtado on Mar 27, 2012
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Posted by: JoshuaFurtado on Mar 26, 2012
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Posted by: JaredFurtado on Feb 9, 2012
By: Bill McKibben
We know—but perilously fail to see—just how much our planet has changed in the last 40 years.
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 30, 2012
By: Charles W. Thurston
With a little help from the government, geothermal energy has the potential to take a much larger share of the renewable energy market in the U.S. in the near future.
[More]Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 25, 2012
President Barack Obama clearly laid out his energy agenda in Tuesday night's State of the Union address, promising "responsible development" of domestic oil and natural gas even as he pledged to invest in renewable energy. “We don’t have to choose between our environment and our economy,” he said.
By: Lucia Graves
[More]Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 24, 2012
By: Ellen Cantarow
[More]Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 19, 2012
Long before the Occupy movement swept the country—over two years ago—a political revolt began in one of the reddest states in America. Farmers and ranchers in Nebraska, many of whom are long-time conservatives, got angry about the amount of corporate influence in a single political issue that has since captivated the entire state and upset federal politics: the Keystone XL pipeline.
By: Melanie Ostander [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 18, 2012
Just outside Seville, in the desert region of Andalucia, Spain, sits an oasis-like sight: a 100-meter-high pillar surrounded by rows of giant mirrors rippling outward.
[More]Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 17, 2012
1. In theory, it would help people living in poor countries now, instead of mainly benefitting their descendants.
2. In practice, it might actually work.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 16, 2012
By: Thomas Black
Companies from General Electric Co. to yogurt producer Chobani are adding U.S. workers, accelerating a rebound in hiring, as chief executive officers prepare for greater demand in a strengthening economic recovery.
[More]Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 9, 2012
By: Bill McKibben
My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve -- dangerously naïve. I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we need deep change in this country, then cynicism is a sucker’s bet. Try as hard as you [More]Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 6, 2012
More than a billion people worldwide lack access to electricity. The best way to bring it to them — while reducing greenhouse gas emissions — is to launch a global initiative to provide solar panels and other forms of distributed renewable power to poor villages and neighborhoods.
By Carl Pope
[More]Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 4, 2012
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Jan 3, 2012
"America needs to keep doing what it does so well -- innovate. Innovation costs money. Venture capital must keep investing in energy startups that make economic sense. Public investors who provide the real growth capital for young companies need to come to the capital markets and buy those stocks. As a key source of innovation funding, the U.S. government must keep [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Dec 22, 2011
By: Michael Brune
With all the political posturing in Congress over the Keystone XL tar-sands oil pipeline, it's easy to lose sight of the real issue: This pipeline is dangerous, unnecessary, and would cost the American [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Dec 15, 2011
By: David Biello
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”—Dickens’s phrase might serve to sum up the reactions to what is now officially called the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” on climate [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Dec 13, 2011
By: Derek Mead
Can biofuel be economically coaxed from a modest plant?
The biofuel sector is aimed at weaning us off our dependence on oil, but what of biofuel producers' dependence on corn?
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Dec 9, 2011
Rooftop solar power is unfairly subsidized yet draws excessive opposition from utility companies because of the way the grid allocates costs for power distribution, according to a new study released by the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.
By: Matthew L. Wald
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Dec 8, 2011
With aging coal-fired U.S. power plants shutting down, major American coal companies are exporting ever-larger amounts of coal to China. Now, plans to build two new coal-shipping terminals on the West Coast have set up a battle with environmentalists who want to steer the world away from fossil fuels.
By Jonathan Thompson [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Dec 6, 2011
With a Leaner Model, Start-Ups Reach Further Afield
By: Steve Lohr
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Lee Redden, 26, a Ph.D. student in engineering at Stanford, recently decided to shelve his education and help found a start-up company.
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Dec 5, 2011
By: Lucia Mutikani
The U.S. unemployment rate tumbled to a 2-1/2 year low in November, even though the pace of hiring remained too slow to suggest a significant acceleration in the labor market recovery. [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Dec 1, 2011
By: Jim Lane, Biofuels Digest
Focused on RFS, RIN, or VEETC? Have no idea what RMN, ATM, GDD, STT or LCW stand for? Amyris and Total do, and they are making their way towards serious scale. Are you? [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Nov 30, 2011
By: Suzanne Gamboa
Ahead of a meeting Friday between President Barack Obama and hundreds of Native American leaders, the administration unveiled new rules for tribal lands that officials say will expedite home building and energy development. [More]
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Nov 29, 2011
MIT NSE News: IPC Forum on Energy Innovation
Posted by: JaredFurtado on Nov 28, 2011
By Michelle Roberts
Health reporter, BBC News
A new generation of contact lenses that project images in front of the eyes is a step closer after successful animal trials, say scientists. [More]
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