Talk about disruptive technology. Xerox unveiled a new kind of solid ink color printing technology that they claim can produce cheaper color copies while reducing the waste associated with ordering, shipping, using, and disposing of laser printing cartridges by 90 percent. Named ColorQubeTM, the technology has been incorporated into Xerox’s ColorQube 9200 series of printers. [...]
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ColorQube Printing Technology from Xerox Reduces Waste Up to 90%
May 31st, 2009 
Justin Manger 
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Tags: Green Product, Green Technology 
No Comments »BBC’s One Planet Interviews Energy Secretary Stephen Chu
May 31st, 2009 Eric Wilson Mike Williams, host of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s program One Planet, interviewed United States Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu this past week. In the discussion, Secretary Chu argues that “the consequences of business as usual could be catastrophic [and that] we must change our way of thinking about consumption.” He goes on to say that [...]
Mission One Motorcycles: A Fully Electric Ride
May 30th, 2009 Eric Wilson Industrial designer Yves Behar and engineer Forrest North came together to develop the Mission One, a fully electric motorcycle that travels twice as far on a single charge as current options on the market. While it is still in the development stages, the two gave a brief introduction (shown below) to their invention at a [...]
Five Friday Facts
May 29th, 2009 Justin Manger The International Union of Railways says a high-speed train can carry eight times as many passengers as an airplane over a given distance, using the same amount of energy and emitting a quarter of the carbon dioxide for each passenger. Rail Transport and Environment Facts & Figures The Maglev from Japan holds the world record [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Japan, Justin Manger, Policy, Transportation Tags: GE, Green Technology, High Speed Rail, Trains No Comments »Green Drinks: Not Just for Saint Patrick’s Day Anymore
May 29th, 2009 Eric Wilson For 20 years now, Green Drinks has been bringing together like-minded individuals to discuss the second green revolution. According to their website, “Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up at informal sessions.” These include “people from NGOs, academia, government and business” as part of their consortium. Staged in countries from Algeria [...]
Likely Good News for U.S. – Japan Clean Technology Cooperation: John Roos Picked for Ambassador
May 28th, 2009 Justin Manger For the last couple weeks Washington has been abuzz about President Obama’s possible picks for ambassadorships with the gossip and rumor mill running especially high in regards to Japan. It is now apparent that the Harvard professor, multiple think tank board member, and all-around international relations expert Joseph Nye, who coined the now popular term [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Green Economy, Japan, Justin Manger, Policy, President Obama Tags: Green Technology No Comments »States Attempt to Redefine Renewable and Alternative Energy
May 28th, 2009 Eric Wilson The New York Times carried an article this week about how states are working to expand the sources of energy that are classified as renewable and alternative under current legislation in order to access billions in government funding. “Federal tax breaks for renewable energy have been reauthorized, and quotas for renewable energy production have been [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Alternative Energy, Biodiesel, Biomass, Diesel, Greenwashing, Renewable Energy, Tax Rebates No Comments »President Obama in Las Vegas Pushing for Green Collar Jobs
May 27th, 2009 Eric Wilson Both the president and his second in command are in western states this week advocating for green jobs as part of the stimulus bill passed earlier this year. Vice-President Joseph R. Biden found himself in Denver at the Museum of Nature and Science where President Obama signed the bill back in February, while Mr. Obama [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, President Obama, Renewable Energy Tags: Colorado, Photovoltaic, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Stimulus Bill No Comments »Inspirational Eulogy; Putting the Earth Together
May 27th, 2009 Justin Manger Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas Friedman, ends with him quoting a eulogy. The eulogy is for Donella H. “Dana” Meadows, a “Dartmouth-based environmental expert and writer” who died in 2001. The remarks at her memorial service were made by Amory Lovins, chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and they express the kind of cautious [...]
Posted in Education, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Sustainable Development Tags: Energy, Quotations, Smart Growth, Thomas Friedman No Comments »Veganism and Vegetarianism: Using the Energy Argument
May 26th, 2009 Eric Wilson It has been said that arguing vegetarianism on moral grounds is a no-win situation. Looking at the issue from a strictly energy angle reveals a new perspective on the debate of the merits of vegetarianism that can be empirically argued. According to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, in every transformation of energy (i.e. sun’s energy [...]
