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The Nest burst onto the scene recently, making waves unlike any seen for a product you’d never guess anyone would care about: the home thermostat. Fadell talked about how his team is rethinking a 50-year-old industry with lessons from his days at Apple.
The impact of more remote workers on the built environment is a fascinating subtopic of the future of work. Will office spaces shrink? Transport plans change? Now there’s a new question about a world of remote workers – will they all move to the exurbs?
Green buildings, meet demand response. The U.S. Green Building Council wants to find ways to count buildings’ ability to turn down power to help utilities shave peak demand in its LEED rating system.
One of the ways that designers can incorporate environmental awareness in their work is by using software to model the impact of different materials and processes on the energy efficiency and sustainability of their designs before they start building, says Autodesk CEO Carl Bass.
Stealthy startup Soladigm has landed $30 million to help build a factory to start churning out its self-tinting glass in 2012. It’s in a race with rival Sage Electrochromics, which just got $80 million for its factory.
Soladigm, a tight-lipped startup working on energy-saving electrochomic windows, announced plans this morning to invest $130 million setting up its first large-scale plant in Olive Branch, Miss., helped along by a $40 million government loan and $4 million in incentives.
A boilerplate is a flexible term used to describe many different things, but Apple’s boilerplate is those lines of text that you see at the bottom of each of all its press releases, and it has remained largely unchanged for the past few years.
Just nine metropolitan areas in the U.S. at the end of 2009 could boast the presence of more than 100 commercial and…
Tools and services for improving a home’s energy efficiency — things like Energy Star appliances, home energy audits and green roofing materials…
Do makers of low-cost, energy saving windows with high-tech smarts have well, a window of opportunity? A growing number of startups and…
New Data Center to Help Heat Helsinki Homes: Finland’s Helsngen Energia plans to build a “relatively efficient” data center underneath a cathedral…
Selling the Smart Grid to Average Joe: Smart grid analyst Jesse Berst examines how the Electrification Roadmap released this week by a…
Dutch to Try Road Tax Alternative: The Dutch government has approved a plan to replace the annual road tax on cars with…
Green building geeks now have a more powerful tool for developing next-gen building designs with minimal environmental impact. Software engineers at the…
Disney (s DIS) CEO Bob Iger told a tech conference crowd yesterday that his company is interested in putting up more content…
The construction industry is about as conservative as they come, but green building materials startup Hycrete has got building contractors giddy about…
Cement and lumber will never be as sexy as an electric sports car, but there are still plenty of business opportunities in…
“Over the top” video services carry the implication of going behind the backs of existing television operators. But two of the (admittedly…
Starting next week, the meaning of “green building,” at least in a technical sense, will change depending on where you live. On…
By 2020, every one of the thousands of homes built in California each year should be generating its own energy, according to…
Is your IMAP Gmail moving slower on your handset than a clogged drain? GearDiary offers a simple and common sense tweak to…
It’s not every day you find $4.4 million lying around at the Empire State Building. But that’s how much former President Bill…
Updated: SAGE Electrochromics said today that it has raised $20 million in a third round of funding for its smart window tinting…
Looks like energy efficient retrofits of public housing is becoming the green cause of the year — it’s cheap, fights climate change…
Foundation Capital will open the doors to its new green offices, decked out with technology from its cleantech portfolio companies, next Monday. The firm is pursuing LEED certification.
Green building materials startup Serious Materials officially announced the availability of its eco-windows, ThermaProof, on Tuesday, which it says can save significant…
Slide has taken $50 million from Fidelity and T-Rowe Price, according to Brad Stone at the New York Times, exchanging a 9-percent…
