Environ News

Activist investor group urges companies to track their use of energy and resources as closely as it does its hiring and cash flow.

Investors say we’ve already experienced “mini bubbles” driven by hype or subsidies. But there remains a societal push for cleaner and domestic sources of energy.

Material sciences achievement in organocatalysts research could lead to more sustainable plastics, better recycling methods.

Water-saving device uses the length of your first shower as a benchmark, indicating via a series of gently flashing “traffic lights” when you need to get out of the shower already!

Originally posted at Crave

Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing.

Intel Labs is showing off technology that would allow consumers to collect and analyze environmental data and then share it over the Internet.

Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

Dozens of companies are developing tools to get consumers involved in home energy management, but businesses are easier customers to serve, say smart-grid execs.

Vehicles with sensor-driven magnetic devices on their underside suck up energy as they travel over the strips embedded just under the road surface.

This year’s MIT Energy conference provided showcase for energy entrepreneurs as investors and executives grappled with how to make giant energy business cleaner.

The Friends of the Supergrid group of companies says that tying together offshore wind farms would compensate for the variability of wind power.