“There’s 25,000 square miles of road surfaces, parking lots, and driveways in the lower 48 states. If we covered that with solar panels with just a 15% efficiency, we’d produce 3 times more energy than this country produces on an annual basis.” – Solar Roadways founder Scott Brusaw We first mentioned Solar Roadways back in [...]
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First GE Ecomagination Challenge Award Goes to Solar Roadways
October 14th, 2010 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, Green Products, Justin Manger, Local Energy/Food, Recylcing, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Sustainable Development, Transportation 
Tags: Alternative Energy, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Electricity Generation, Energy Conservation, Green Product, Green Technology, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Solar Roadways 
No Comments »I Left My Heart in San… Luis Obispo?
October 13th, 2010 Justin Manger It may not be San Francisco, but residents of San Luis Obispo, CA are quite taken by the lifestyle in this town of 44,000 people located about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A Gallup-Healthways poll from 2008 found it ranked number one in overall emotional health in the U.S. What makes San Luis [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Green Building, Justin Manger, Policy, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: California No Comments »$5 billion for Atlantic Coast Off-Shore Wind Transmission Backbone
October 12th, 2010 Justin Manger There is some very exciting news this morning regarding wind power. The New York Times reports there is funding for a “proposed $5 billion transmission backbone for future offshore wind farms along the Atlantic Seaboard that could ultimately transform the region’s electrical map.” Google, sticking to its pattern of investing in renewable power, has come on [...]
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations to Roll Out Across the U.S.
October 9th, 2010 Justin Manger The U.S. leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, Coulomb Technologies, procured $15 million in Series C funding this month to help accelerate the installment of 4,600 free home and public EV charging stations in nine regions across the U.S in a program called ChargePoint America. Cities in this initiative include Austin, Detroit, New York, Orlando, [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Economy, Justin Manger, Smart Grid, Transportation Tags: Cars, Ford, Los Angeles, New York City, Plug-in Hybrid, Washington DC No Comments »SunChips Compostable Bag Sent to the Grave
October 5th, 2010 Eric Wilson In what may turn out to be a cautionary tale, Frito-Lay has discontinued the compostable bag that was released earlier this year. Citing “noise” concerns (listen here for an audio clip), parent company Frito-Lay has scrapped the bag and will start over in its attempt to make a compostable bag.
CityOne from IBM Unveiled Today
October 4th, 2010 Eric Wilson A few weeks ago we mentioned the IBM would launch an online, interactive game designed to simulate real-world decision making in the attempt to build a smarter planet, one of the company’s major initiatives. The game went live today and can be played by anyone, but users have to register first. The mission of the [...]
Harnessing Sunlight to Gasify Biomass
October 4th, 2010 Justin Manger A small start-up in Louisville, Colorado called Sundrop Fuels has created a new method to gasify biomass. Most techniques burn 30-35 percent of the feedstock to generate the heat needed for gasification, but Sundrop’s process uses sunlight to convert all of the biomass into fuel. The solar-driven gasification system consists of ceramic tubes running through [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Justin Manger Tags: Alternative Energy, Bio-fuels, Biomass, Clean Energy, Green Technology, Solar Energy No Comments »Novozyme: Using Nature to Design the Future
October 3rd, 2010 Eric Wilson Novozyme, the Danish offshoot of pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, has begun using naturally occurring enzymes from bacteria and fungus to “replace traditional chemicals or additives and help to save water and energy in a variety of production processes.” The company has used biological based innovations to grow its product line. “With over 700 products used [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: Bio-fuels, Chemicals, Ecology of Commerce No Comments »Battery to Capture Power from SEPTA’s Philadelphia Subway Trains
September 30th, 2010 Justin Manger The Southeastern Pennsylvanian Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the nation’s sixth largest mass transit entity, has recently come up with a plan to save up to 40 percent on its electric bill and generate potentially millions of dollars in revenue. Teaming up with Philadelphia-based smart gird company, Viridity Energy, SEPTA is piloting a project to transfer the [...]
IKEA’s Denver, CO Store to Use Geothermal Energy
September 30th, 2010 Eric Wilson Opening in the fall of 2011, the first Colorado based IKEA store, located in the southern suburb of Centennial, will employ geothermal heat pumps to provide heating and cooling to its newest location. The first of its kind for the big box retailer in the United States, the system will tap into the constant temperature [...]
Posted in Business, Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, Renewable Energy Tags: Colorado, Denver, EPA, Geothermal, Green Investments, IKEA, NREL, Wind Power No Comments »
