Ventus, a citizen science project based at Arizona State University wants eagle-eyed environmentalists to map power plants and hopes to use the crowdsourced data to improve global carbon cycle models.
Microsoft is joining a growing number of tech companies that want to do something about their growing carbon emissions due to power hungry data centers and office buildings. The software giant on Tuesday announced a plan to become carbon neutral by fiscal year 2013 (this July).
What would it take to sweep the excess CO2 out of the air? In this post, we will put the numbers in perspective and briefly examine a few of the possibilities for storage.
Telecom companies have known for some time that their industry’s carbon footprint will grown and that presents an opportunity. Verizon announced on Wednesday it will turn to a national lab for help to come up with marketable energy saving technologies.
The U.S. could attract $342 billion in clean power project investments over the next decade if it adopts aggressive energy policies, said a report from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Meanwhile, solar and wind advocates are fighting to keep a popular federal grant program.
Carbon capture and sequestration — taking carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and other industrial facilities, and shoving them underground — represents…
A recent breakthrough at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is bringing together two sectors that people love to fixate on: nanotechnology and carbon…
Shell, Codexis Getting Cozy: Royal Dutch Shell has taken a bigger stake in biofuel technology company Codexis, aiming to commercialize next-generation biofuels…
In addition to receiving an infusion of cash through its merger with Winrock International, the Environmental Resources Trust’s Greenhouse Gas Registry also…
Sun Microsystems will bring its StartupCamp, a free, two-day “unconference” that gathers together founders, entrepreneurs and technologists, to San Francisco’s Moscone Center…
Whether you’re a casual Twitter user, someone who depends on it for communication with a workgroup, or a hardcore Twitterfan with hundreds of friends chattering away on your timeline, there are likely tools out there for you. Here are five of the more interesting – or curious – recent releases.