Loans and Stimulus For Alternative Energy
This video with Steven Chu, Energy Secretary, discusses the future demand for alternative energy.
This video with Steven Chu, Energy Secretary, discusses the future demand for alternative energy.
The following is a video about President Obama’s speech at Opower in Arlington, Virginia. From its founding in 2007 to today, Positive Energy – now OPOWER™ – has established itself as the leading utility partner for energy-efficiency and smart-grid software services. www.opower.com
Mar 5, 2010 – What is the tagline for the ad by Earthjustice? “Because the earth needs a good lawyer.” OK, I know there are too many lawyer jokes to list here. Does that mean that the earth currently only has bad lawyers now. Of course, as I have indicated before, most ads, even in [...]
Mar 5, 2010 – Is this a green energy subject? The headline of the ad is “Concerned about a sustainable world?” The photo shows a favela in, I guess, Rio de Janeiro. “Over 60% of poor women in Latin America and the Caribbean don’t have access to contraceptives. IPPF/WHR provides essential sexual an reproductive health [...]
Mar 4, 2010 – A new train from Siemens will make transport at airports faster and more flexible. Airval — a driverless train that runs on tires — has a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour. The train’s transport capacity can be increased from 1,000 to 30,000 passengers per hour and per direction: If [...]
Feb 11, 2010 – Siemens Technologies took first place in 2 categories of the first Innovation Prize for Climate and Environment awarded by Germany’s Federal Environment Ministry and the Federation of German Industries (BDI). German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and BDI Director General Werner Schnappauf presented the awards – totaling €125,000 – to winners in [...]
Feb 19, 2010 – Earlier this month the NRDC, “The Earth’s Best Defense” [Who are they?] of NYC had full page ads donated by Peter Morton [Who is he?]. The NRDC is Natural Resources Defense Council & its Trustee’s include well-know actors, actresses, celebrities, wealthy businessman, etc. The ad was directed to US Senators & [...]
Feb 3, 2010 – BP reported a sharp year-on-year increase in 4Q profits as it announced that its oil and gas production increased by more than 4% in 2009 and the company continued its industry-leading 17-year run of increasing reserves.
The increase in production was well ahead of the company’s expected long-term average growth rate of [...]
Feb 2, 2010 – Mireya Navarro reports in The New York Times that a panel of experts convened by the mayor and City Council issued more than 100 recommendations Monday on how to make New York City’s building codes more environmentally sound by imposing energy-saving requirements on construction and renovation work.
The measures, presented to Mayor [...]
Feb 1, 2010 – J. David Goodman reports on “An Electric Boost for Bicyclists” in The New York Times. Detroit may be introducing electric car designs and China may be pushing forward with a big expansion of its highways and trains. But people by the millions are taking part in a more accidental transportation upheaval. [...]
ECOtality, Inc. (OTCBB: ETLE) will provide a preview of its first generation of internet-based software for advanced electric vehicle charging. The software, developed by eTec (Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ECOtality, will be on display this week at the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) conference held in conjunction with the Washington Auto [...]