Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could sequester several billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year and so help ameliorate global warming, according to estimates published in the October issue of BioScience. // // The study, by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, outlines a variety of [...]
Propel Fuels, which wants to build 75 alternative fuel gas stations in California, unveiled one in Oakland yesterday, according to several news reports. The company already operates stations in Oakland and Seattle. One of the big problems with ethanol has been the availability of pumps dispensing E85, the 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gas blend. While [...]
Propel Fuels, which wants to build 75 alternative fuel gas stations in California, unveiled one in Oakland yesterday, according to several news reports. The company already operates stations in Oakland and Seattle. One of the big problems with ethanol has been the availability of pumps dispensing E85, the 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gas blend. While [...]
Getting individuals and businesses to change the way they interact with their thermostat has become one of the primary goals of utilities, regulators and energy startups. To spur adoption of renewables, incentives have to be properly calibrated. But what works? One of the most successful companies so far in bringing behavioral dynamics to energy is [...]
Helsinki — Later this week, the first servers in an experimental data center here that proponents say will be the world’s most energy efficient will go into their racks — and bigger plans are on the way. When formally launched in August, the data center will generate the equivalent of a megawatt of energy for [...]
Earth Friendly E-Commerce was founded on the idea that making positive change for the environment is a group effort, where small changes can act as a larger force for good. We don’t have any illusions about the impact of a website on the environment, we understand that just changing how you sell items online will [...]
The Daily Green Helps with BACK TO SCHOOL: Back to school time is right around the corner. Soon you’ll be bombarded with so many advertisements for notebooks, planners, pens and other supplies, it will be hard to avoid buying products – unfortunately, many of these items take a toll on the environment. So rather than [...]
SolarCity today announced that it is taking a $21.5 million round of funding led by Mayfield Fund, and the company’s previous investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DBL Investors and Generation Capital. The company’s prior funding totaled approximately $134 million, and included investors First Solar, JP Morgan and Elon Musk. SolarCity helps businesses, home owners and government [...]
Global asset manager Schroders said investors should pay attention to businesses benefiting or likely to benefit from global efforts to ease or adapt to climate change – including companies in China. A China Daily report quoted Schroders as saying that climate change’s consequences will provide attractive investment opportunities, and that it sees China as today’s [...]
The United States market for renewable energy certificate (R.E.C.) has defied the recession, showing continued growth that could potentially treble its size by 2015 and demonstrating the overall resilience of the renewable energy sector, according to market analyst Pike Research. In a new study, Pike Research said that the two distinct R.E.C. markets in the [...]