• Want to Go Green? Buy a Rolex, Stop Paying Taxes

    And quit visiting your in-laws too? Saul Griffith explores the low-watt lifestyle.

    There's really something for everyone, even those on the political fringes of the left and right, in Saul Griffith's energy plan.

    Griffith -- an MIT-trained scientist, MacArthur genius grant recipient and serial entrepreneur whose ventures include a kite for extracting power from atmospheric winds -- is trying to get people to stop thinking about their personal energy consumption in terms of a carbon footprint and start thinking about it in… Read More ›

  • Skyonic Gets $3 Million To Show if Carbon-to-Baking Soda Works

    Let’s just hope it doesn’t rain vinegar.

    Can biscuits stop global warming? Maybe.

    Skyonic has received a $3 million grant from the Department of Energy to create a simulation and study the feasibility of SkyMine, an industrial process it has developed to convert carbon dioxide into baking soda.

    If all goes well, the company will then apply for a second grant to build a large-scale facility in which to house the technology. The idea is to build the plant at Capitol Aggregates, a cement… Read More ›

  • Smart Appliances: What to Expect

    The Smart Oven? Trials begin later this year.

    Appliance manufacturers have been concentrating on reducing the power consumption of their products since California's 1978 passage of Title 24, the landmark set of regulations that first mandated and codified energy efficiency standards.

    But until now, manufacturers haven't concentrated too much on the question of when appliances are most likely to be operated. With the advent of smart grid technologies, that hopefully will change. We recently… Read More ›

  • Amazon Getting A Boost From Green

    Sustainability info helps close the deal, says GoodGuide.

    San Francisco--On average, only around two percent of searches on Amazon result in a sale, according to Dave Mandelbrot, chief business officer at GoodGuide.

    On the other hand, the leads generated by green shopping aggregator GoodGuide result in a ten percent closure rate on Amazon sales, Mandelbrot reported during a panel discussion at the Sustainable Capital Forum sponsored by investment bank Wood Warren in San Francisco.

    This data point,… Read More ›

  • Serious Materials Latest Factory and China’s “Strong Grid”

    To survive, study the weather, says Intel.

    San Francisco–Make it where they live, says Serious Material CEO Kevin Surace.

    The green building-material developer is participating in the energy-efficient retrofit of the Empire State Building by supplying insulating windows to the project. But rather than make the windows at its factory in Pennsylvania and then ship them to New York, Serious is taking the building's existing windows and turning them into thermal windows in a small factory… Read More ›

  • Geoengineering: Curb Your Enthusiasm

    Needed: life-supporting planets to participate in an exciting study.

    Studying geoengineering is emerging as one of the most important tasks facing humanity. Climate scientists are taking the necessary first steps: defining the problem and deciding on how to conduct the research.

    A pair of articles in today’s issue of Science — a Policy Forum item and a Perspectives item — contribute to these efforts by raising questions about research into solar radiation management. The policy item addresses the political issues… Read More ›

  • The Space-Age Disco Ball For Combating Climate Change

    Three mirrors can make a 20-kilometer beam of light used for measuring carbon dioxide.

    Smoke and mirrors: that is one way to think about the Picarro Wavelength-Scanned Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy instrument.

    The $50,000 machine employs lasers and a specially designed chamber that contains three calibrated mirrors that Picarro claims can measure greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane with far more accuracy and geographic specificity than conventional detectors.

    The device is also relatively easier to use, which,… Read More ›

  • The Tuesday Deals: Lumenergi Lands Big Contract; Demand Response at Dairies and SCE Buys Solar

    Another good day for the little guys.

    Think of this as demand response, minus the daily urgency.

    EPS, which makes energy efficiency and control systems for the food industry, has managed permanently to shift nearly 1.5 megawatts of demand to off-peak times, saving customers $232,000 annually. EPS essentially consults with companies to determine what functions can be shifted toward off-peak periods and then implements the energy-savings plan. In this case, it shifted power for an… Read More ›

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Want to Go Green? Buy a Rolex, Stop Paying Taxes

Want to Go Green? Buy a Rolex, Stop Paying Taxes

And quit visiting your in-laws too? Saul Griffith explores the low-watt lifestyle.

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