Energy from Waste Technology ready for commercialisation
InEn Tec, recently honoured as 2010 Top Innovator by the Wall Street Journal, will soon commercialise new technologies that can transform industrial, household and even medical waste into electricity and fuel for transport. Continued investment into companies such as InEn Tec and …
Bioengineering new pollution sensors
The latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports research led by bioengineer Shoji Takeuchi at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science. Specially-treated frog eggs were injected into a compact robot smell sensor to give it a …
40 American billionaires sign the Giving Pledge
Forty of America’s richest families have committed to the Giving Pledge, an effort by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett have recently contacted between 70 and 80 American billionaires in the last 6 weeks to commit to a Giving Pledge to …
Nike Creates Worker Relief Fund
In January 2009, 1,800 laborers lost their jobs in Honduras when two local factories that made shirts for the U.S. sports-apparel giant Nike, Hugger and Vision Tex, suddenly closed their doors and did not pay workers the $2 million in severance and …
Google to use wind energy
Google energy unit has entered into a deal to buy wind power from NextEra Energy Inc for the next 20 years to power its data centers. The deal comes less than three months after the giant Silicon Valley Internet search company invested …
Geothermal energy set to grow in India
India’s The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has identified Gujarat as one of the states with potential for setting up geothermal power plants. Gujarat’s Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, has announced that a policy is being drafted to promote geothermal energy. Geothermal …
Scotland on track to have 80% of energy from renewables by 2020
Scotland is surrounded by some of the best wave energy potential in the world, and the country is a world leader in developing wave energy at the prototype level. Currently five of the applications being processed are for hydro energy, while 25 …
Smart Grid Analytics from Oracle
The rising popularity of smart energy meters expands consumption data by 1,000 percent or more, and utilities and consumers alike are finding a need to effectively manage this massive volume of data. To this end, Oracle will release Oracle Business Intelligence for …
Marriott launches sustainable seafood program
Marriott International launched a sustainable seafood program called “Future Fish” in June 2010 making it the first, large global hotel chain to adopt a sustainable seafood policy in response to declining global fish stocks. Marriott’s approximately 780 full-service hotels are expected to …
Dell trims computer energy use by a quarter
Dell has achieved its goal of reducing its desktop and laptop computers’ energy consumption by 25 percent by using Energy Smart fans, improved circuit design, power management and other technologies, along with more-efficient processors, power supplies, memory and other parts from suppliers. …