A new search engine was launched last week and it was designed to help internet users be kind to the environment.
Envirosearch.org is a new online search service by Carbonfund.org. Powered by Bing and with revenues generated by Yahoo! Ads, it supports international conservation projects such as reforestation efforts and wildlife preservation.
Buying solar power in the UK has become literally as easy as pie since one of Britain’s largest supermarket chains announced it is selling panels from its stores and website.
According to Reuters, Retail giant Sainsbury’s has entered into a partnership with British Gas to offer small solar panels and loft insulation. A 2.1Kw solar PV system
With the aim of fomenting renewable energy within academia, the Fundación IBERDROLA, which is kept by renewable energy giant Iberdrola, has announced the first round of its program of scholarships for postgraduate studies in energy and the environment at academic centres in the United Kingdom and the United States.
The University of Waterloo has won the Hydrogen Education Foundation’s 2011 Hydrogen Student Design Contest for the fifth time in the six-year history of the contest.
The contest is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is part of the DOE’s efforts to “encourage innovation
Belo Monte, the $10bn mega dam the Brazilian government wants to build in the Amazon, continues on its controversial path, including legal suits and protests against it.
The idea for Belo Monte goes back 30 years when the country was still under a military dictatorship, but local resistance so
A new type of off-shore wind power technology is about to be tested in Europe which could expand the exploration of off-shore wind power worldwide.
Danish wind power market leader Vestas has entered an agreement with WindPlus for the deployment of the first offshore project worldwide integrating a wind turbine
According to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, The Honda Civic GX takes the gong. The Model is powered by compressed natural gas.
According to ACEEE’s Green Book, which compiled the list (now in its 14th edition), this year’s greenest vehicles were led by natural gas, electricity, conventional gas
Scrap your car and fuel the future: how donating your end-of-life vehicle can help pave the way for greener alternatives and raise money for a good cause.
According to recent statistical reports undertaken by the Department of Energy & Climate Change, road transport accounts for around 25% of the UK’s carbon emissions. And, amongst the heaviest
If you are planning to buy a new appliance or carry out some home improvement, or even retrofitting to make your home more energy efficient, you may want to check out a new web tool that searches for rebates in your area.
Hosted by Ennovationz, a Silicon Valley startup that connects consumers to green
The Mexican government is funding an initiative to demonstrate industrial algae production to find out how viable it is for use in large-scale jet fuels production.
“Manhattan Project”, as the initiative has been dubbed, has recruited OriginOil, a California-based company that works to make algae competitive with petroleum.
Photovoltaic solar power gets a financial boost through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which last week announced an investment of up to $7 million in total to support the development and commercialization of emerging solar energy technologies. The funding will be delivered through DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
The program is called PV Technology
Everyone was talking about Super Bowl 45 yesterday: the national anthem fiasco, the best and worst adverts and the celebrity shenanigans. As a green blog we’d like to add another point to the the Super Bowl buzz: how green stadiums across the country are. The Cowboys Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, appears at number
Earlier this month we wrote about New Energy’s SolarWindow, a solar technology to generate electricity on see-thru glass windows being developed by the company headquartered in Columbia, MD.
The company this week announced another breakthrough. Its researchers have successfully developed a first-generation
Lighting is one of the biggest electricity guzzlers in a commercial building – 40% of it, to be precise.
One of the best ways to find out what to do to save electricity is using a web app that can provide data that can reveal how some retrofitting can benefit the building from an energy-saving and environmental point of