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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…
Dell (s aapl) recently made it clear in a blog post that it thinks rival Apple’s (s appl) green laptop claims have…
At the urging of state officials, Texas oil giant ExxonMobil (s XOM) has undertaken a $70 million project to capture and store…
UN Climate Chief Calls Progress in Poznan Too Slow for Comprehensive Treaty in ’09: Delegates from 190 countries at the UN’s climate…
In addition to receiving an infusion of cash through its merger with Winrock International, the Environmental Resources Trust’s Greenhouse Gas Registry also…
As the Western Climate Initiative, the second cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases in the U.S., makes its way toward enforcement by 2010,…
There is so much bad news spinning out of the financial markets these days that it might be hard to spare a…
Google and T-Mobile unveiled the G1 today, the first phone powered by Android, Google’s own mobile operating system. The G1 is launching…
One of the world’s first coal-fired power plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is set to start up in…
What gets measured gets managed, and for too long the processes that emit carbon into the atmosphere have gone unmanaged. The Carbon…
Carbon offsets have been available for purchase for avatars of the user-created world Second Life for some time. And now, thanks to…
North America’s first carbon tax is set to roll out this coming Tuesday in the Canadian province British Columbia. This means British…
It should come as no surprise that the Bay Area, a national hub of cleantech enterprise and environmental policy, has become the…
Congratulations to Nico Kaiser for correctly identifying the subtle change in the PGP security contest! See, it literally pays to read “stodgy”…
While the voluntary carbon trading economy is booming (it tripled in 2007 to $331 million) the power of free-market economics has yet…
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.
MarketWatch: Intel Shares Fall after Chipmaker Lowers Margins News.com Cutting the Cord with all You Can Eat Wireless Plans Tech Confidential: Video…
Tiny Pictures, a mobile media company whose product is called Radar, has raised $7.2 million in Series B funding led by Draper…
Rumors have been swirling around the Lenovo ThinkPad X300, and today Walt Mossberg shares some details on the device. There’s no doubt…
Wallace Lau just dropped $3,112 on a Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC and has his user review posted up at Tablet PC…
We confirmed that Dell would be launching the XT Tablet PC today and our information is correct as Dell has done so…
Ralph de la Vega, group president of AT&T, keynoted NewTeeVee Live and told us he sees a big opportunity in AT&T partnering…
Sonic Solutions (SNIC) is hoping to spark a home entertainment revolution today with the release of its DVD On Demand software and…
I had read several sources indicating that T-Mobile was revamping their data plans and in some cases, cutting prices. All in all…
[qi:064] One has to give Nokia credit for recognizing very early-on that it is the software that separates men from toys –…
We all know that those who work at home sit around in their bathrobes all day at the computer, hair disheveled, unshowered,…
Glypho is a new way to write Blooks.
Blogger Crashless (don’t you just love the internet) has a new Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC and is blogging the first impressions…
The demand for VoIP related consumer gear is going to jump quite nicely in the first quarter, according to some reports from…
Very often, I have come across promising start-ups, that have a world on a string, and can capture the minds and hearts…
Last week, I was lamenting that home-network drives from folks like Mirra and Xiemta need to get some intelligence. I guess, the…
US News & World Report: You know this wifi thing is getting close to the end of the wi-fi cycle when magazines…
