Bjarke Svendsen | posted on August 28, 2008

As energy prices continue to climb, the idea of tapping the power of the sun may seem like a no-brainer. The process of getting solar panels installed, however, is quite the opposite, fraught with spreadsheets, technical details and terms like “albedo.” …read full discussion

Craig Rubens | posted on August 26, 2008

Last week, Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson said confidently that his synthetic biology startup would be able to produce millions of gallons of biofuel from algae within three years. That confidence could have been fueled by a large, $45.4 million Series C round of funding that the company has raised, according toPEHub.com. …read full discussion

Best of the Green Web | posted on August 21, 2008

Using nanorobots to build circuits is so last year’s fantasy. The latest technology of tomorrow uses viruses to construct everything from transistors to tiny batteries to solar cells. Researchers at MIT published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week describing how they’ve successfully created tiny batteries …read full discussion

Jeremy Jacquot | posted on August 20, 2008

The next big cleantech innovation may, ironically, come from a company that thinks small. Nanotechnology, a multidisciplinary field of applied science that operates at the atomic or molecular level, is increasingly making the leap from the lab …read full discussion

Katie Fehrenbacher | posted on August 19, 2008

The 42 U.S. President, Bill Clinton delivered a top-10 laundry list of actions the U.S. government should take to help solve the energy crisis during a speech to kick off theNational Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas on Monday night. …read full discussion

Craig Rubens | posted on August 16, 2008

This week, Democrats are simultaneously edging closer to the middle on domestic oil exploration and trying to coat McCain in Big Oil’s ill-gotten profits. Meanwhile McCain met with one of the biggest former oilmen, T. Boone Pickens. …read full discussion

Craig Rubens | posted on August 14, 2008

In a ridiculous publicity stunt that shows the lighter side of cow power, northern California utility PG&E and BioEnergy Solutions said today they will power a children’s train ride with renewable biogas, courtesy of California dairy cows, at the California State Fair this weekend in Sacramento. …read full discussion

Kevin Kelleher | posted on August 12, 2008

Chip equipment makers, like most of their customers, have to weather turbulent shifts from boom times to lean ones. Applied Materials (AMAT), which is near the bottom of one such chip cycle, decided a few years ago it would build a buffer by moving into the growing market for solar photovoltaic equipment. …read full discussion

Tony Borroz | posted on August 11, 2008

 Gordon Murray, famous for knocking the Formula One racing world on its collective ear on more than one occasion (with such notable designs as the Brabham F1 fan car and McLaren’s almost all conquering MP4/4) has been turning his fertile imagination towards personal transportation of a greener, if no less fun, stripe. …read full discussion

Cory Doctorow | posted on August 7, 2008

Worldchanging’s Morgan Greenseth has a nice piece up on the future of malls in America — as many malls and mall-chains fail, they open up lots of possibilities for urban renewal, a fact that has been noticed by the New Urbanist movement, who are busily cooking up plans for turning dead malls into town squares. …read full discussion