As part of Georgetown University’s Social Impact Week, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. will hold the 2010 Georgetown Energy & Cleantech Conference. The student led Energy and Clean Tech Club initiative brings together students and alumni “from across the many schools of Georgetown University interested in issues of energy (traditional and renewable sources), climate change, cleantech, [...]
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2nd Green Revolution Sponsoring Georgetown Clean Tech Conference
August 28th, 2010 
Justin Manger Steuben’s Eco-friendly Food Truck
August 24th, 2010 Eric Wilson Watch the Travel Channel’s Food Wars: LA Food Trucks or tune in to Food Networks’ The Great Food Truck Race and you just may get a sense of how prolific these mobile restaurants have become. They are the hottest thing to hit gourmet food. No longer are these meals on wheels the bane of the food industry. [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, Renewable Energy 
Tags: Calendar, California, Denver, Food 
View CommentsSolar House Doesn’t Just Produce Electricity; It also Rotates
August 23rd, 2010 Justin Manger Well, at least the roof rotates. That’s still pretty wild and, it turns out, solar efficient. The Heliotrope, designed by German architect Rolf Disch is a wild looking structure located in Germany that has a rotating array of solar panels to follow the sun during the course of the day. A “Sun Sail” on the [...]
Harnessing Solar Energy for Fuel
August 17th, 2010 Eric Wilson The sun’s energy powers just about everything. Sometimes it does so more directly, as in the conversion of radiant energy to electricity in photovoltaic panels, and others less directly, in the case of plant material that has morphed in petroleum and natural gas found in the earth’s crust. In addition, the sun causes the wind [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Bio-fuels, California, Department of Energy, Energy, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy View CommentsEco-Clothing Company Rapanui Focuses on Product Traceability
August 15th, 2010 Justin Manger Aiming to make “eco-fashion cool for young people”, Rapanui Clothing produces “organic clothing that is eco-friendly, ethical and sustainable” and claims to be the “first clothing company in the world to establish on page [on-line] traceability for all products.” Founded by brothers Rob and Martin Drake-Knight in early 2008, the company is based in England’s [...]
