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 Recovery Act Funds Positively Impacting Innovation; Still Many Unknowns
August 24th, 2010 Justin Manger There’s usually a flurry of speculation before major elections. Similarly, sports finals bring out all kinds of arguing and debating about who will win. Only when the votes are counted and the buzzer sounds does it really matter. In announcing that the U.S. is on track to achieve four major innovation breakthroughs due to Recovery [...]
Solar 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 [...]
Infographic: What if solar power grew as fast as Facebook?
August 21st, 2010 Justin Manger The following interesting graphic comes from 1BOG (One Block Off the Grid), a company that helps consumers pool together to get discounts on solar panel installation. The graph extrapolates the growth of solar power if its use were increasing at the rate of Facebook’s growth. Currently, solar power grows 60% each year, according to 1BOG. [...]
August Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
August 2nd, 2010 Eric Wilson Although there are not as many events on the calendar for August, there are two in Austin, Texas and a couple in Australia mentioned below. In addition, Shelburne Farms in Vermont is hosting the Education for Sustainability Institute in the first week of the month. Shelburne Farms is “Shelburne Farms is a membership-supported, nonprofit environmental [...]
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