Latest Stories in Green Investments
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Happy Eightieth Birthday, Tennessee Valley Authority
It may be old, dirty and coal powered now, but it was once a vision of a brighter future, was a giant stimulus project and helped win WWII.
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South-Korea's largest rooftop solar installation (10 MW) to be built on a Hyundai factory
Hyundai has announced that it will build what will be South-Korea's largest solar rooftop solar installation on its Asan factory, near the West coast of the country.
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It's time for Big Green to go fossil fuel free, says Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein calls out the biggest environmental organizations (National Wildlife Federation Endowment, The Nature Conservancy, NRDC, etc.) for their fossil fuel investments.
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U.S. had 45,100 wind turbines at the end of 2012, a growth of 28% over 2011
Wind power in the U.S. is doing well, and the country has only just begun to tap its massive potential (especially offshore).
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Suntech stock up almost 50% on Warren Buffett buyout rumors
If there's one way to describe Buffett, it's "bargain hunter". When people are running away from something, Buffett usually goes in the opposite direction and takes a look to see if there isn't a quality undervalued asset that he could buy.
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Scotland to Donald Trump: Drop dead. Offshore wind farm green-lit
About a year ago, Donald Trump was throwing a public tantrum about Scotland's plans to build an offshore wind farm. Mr. Trump claimed that it would ruin the view from one of his golf course projects.
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Can Washington D.C. become the greenest city in the U.S.?
The Sustainable D.C. Act of 2012 lists 32 goals, 31 targets, and more than 140 actions aimed to make Washington D.C. the "greenest city in the U.S."
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How the US Navy is going green
Mother Jones has a good feature on how the United States military is helping push the clean energy revolution forward.
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SolarCity and Honda, sitting in a tree...
What's interesting about the 65 million dollars that the American division of Honda is investing with SolarCity is that the car-maker isn't just creating a fund to finance solar systems. It's also trying to market Solar to its customers.
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Ontario might get a 400MW pumped storage station five times the height of Niagara Falls
While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).
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Crowd-Funded Solar Projects Top $1 Million in U.S.
Is this a new key to a wave of clean energy development in the U.S.? Mosaic, the crowd-funded solar site, certainly hopes so.
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50% of All Food Produced Is Wasted
We don't have a food production crisis, we have a storage and transportation crisis and a consumption crisis.
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Clean Energy Investments Fell in 2012
Uncertain policies, cheap natural gas, and falling technology prices presented a problem for the renewables sector last year. But, things may not be as bad as they seem.
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White House Responds to Death Star Petition
Sometimes reality is almost as cool as fiction. We might not get an orbital battle station any time soon, but we've got some pretty cool stuff.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Speaks on the Future of Energy and Transportation
It's always interesting to hear Musk speak about his vision of the future, as he's a man who knows how to get things done and make it happen.
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72% of Harvard Students Vote to Divest School Endowment From Fossil Fuels Companies
Pulling money from fossil fuels now has much greater support on campus than did the campaign to divest from apartheid South Africa.
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German Electricity Tax Rises 50% to Support Renewable Energy
Why is the tax intended to help renewable energy being protested by the wind and solar industries?
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Clean Energy Investment Falls to 2009 Levels
Major policy uncertainty, particularly regarding the US wind power market, has led to sharp declines in the third quarter of 2012.
