On Tuesday, January 24th President Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address from Capitol Hill. How prominently do you think clean energy and the “green” economy will be featured in the speech? Choose from one of the options below:
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Poll: Obama’s State of the Union Speech
January 23rd, 2012 
Justin Manger Secretary Chu Says EV Batteries Will Be 70% Cheaper in 3 Years
January 17th, 2012 Justin Manger At a recent speech in Detroit - a kind of pep rally for the city and its car industry – Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu had some good news about the cost of the batteries that power electric vehicles. In addition to making inroads on new kinds of battery technology, he talked about the likely decreases in [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Economics, Green Products, Justin Manger, News, Policy, Transportation 
Tags: Battery, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Stephen Chu, Washington DC 
No Comments »Not Your Average Bus Trip: How “Green” is that Green Bus? Part 5 (Final)
January 14th, 2012 Heather Perry This is the final installment of the green bus series. Read all five parts here. Standing as one of the most memorable and defining experiences of my life, the adventures of our green bus brought us back to Tahoe, right where we had started. From Hannibal, Missouri we continued to make a giant loop around [...]
Automakers Unveil Electric Vehicles at Detroit Auto Show
January 13th, 2012 Chris DeArmond Despite the fact that hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for less than 3 percent of cars sold in 2011, they dominated this week’s Detroit Auto Show for the second year in a row. While several hybrid/electric vehicles revealed at the show were concept cars—for example, the hybrid Lexus LFLC sports coupe and the iconic Acura NSX [...]
British Firm Doubles Up with Solar/Wave Power Combo
January 5th, 2012 Justin Manger Wouldn’t it be nice to harness the power from all that turbulence in the seas? There are numerous startups working to try to perfect a technique to do just that from waves and tides. What if you could add a solar powered top to that device, creating the ability to harness both sun and sea? Marine Solar [...]
Apple Working on New Battery That Could Be Charged Once a Week
December 29th, 2011 Justin Manger News has surfaced again that Apple is planning to release a hydrogen fuel cell battery that could power iPhones, iPods, and iPads for at least a week without recharging. Submissions (below) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, first reported by Apple Insider in October, describe a lighter and more environmentally friendly battery that could keep [...]
2012 Light Bulb Efficiency Standards Delayed until September
December 28th, 2011 Chris DeArmond By passing the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, congress established efficiency standards for light bulbs that were slated to go into effect in at the beginning of 2012. However, due to a provision included in the massive year-end spending bill that eliminates funding to carry out the standards, the date has been [...]
Posted in Behavior, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Green Products, News, Policy Tags: CFL, Chris DeArmond, Energy Conservation, Green Product, Washington DC No Comments »Toyota’s New 83MPG Hybrid Goes on Sale in Japan
December 27th, 2011 Justin Manger Toyota’s smallest and most environmentally friendly hybrid, the Aqua, hit the Japanese market earlier this week. The $22,000 car is 2 feet shorter than its well known cousin the Prius and gets more than 83 miles per gallon. To be named the Prius C when it eventually crosses the Pacific and goes on sale in [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Products, Japan, Justin Manger, News, Transportation Tags: Cars, Electric Vehicles, Green Technology, Hybrids, Prius No Comments »Not Your Average Bus Trip: How “Green” is that Green Bus? Part 2
December 24th, 2011 Heather Perry This is the second in a series by Heather Perry. All posts in the series will be available here. We drove our bus to our first supplying client, the restaurant where Darcy had been working. Consistent with what we would find throughout the rest of our three-month journey, the owner of the restaurant was encouraging [...]
Recent “Green” Developments in Japan
December 20th, 2011 Justin Manger From Japan for Sustainability come two quick news tidbits of note. First, a group of researchers at Chubu University has been developing superconducting wires that can minimize electricity loss in the transmission process. “In 2010, the group successfully completed the world’s first experiment aimed at sending direct current electricity through a 200-meter-long transmission line using superconductors.” This [...]
