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Storing Wind Energy as Hydrogen
Makes the case for coupling hydrogen production with wind farms in order to deliver more dispatchable power; lessen the need for transmission capacity; as well as other important bottom line benefits....
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5 Green Twitter Memes You Should be Using To Get More Followers
This is the follow up to my previous post The Ultimate Green Twitter Hashtag List: Build Your Online Green Twitter Following - 150+Green Hashtags. This post introduces you to daily Twitter memes,...
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The Missing Grid Connected Energy Storage Strategy
Examines the case for government leadership in promoting the development of distributed grid connected energy storage, arguing that government leadership is necessary in order to kick start this very...
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Renewables Give Us More Power Than Nuclear
Discusses the recent news that renewable energy (including hydro as well) now supplies more electricity to the US grid than does nuclear power. The post then goes on to list some large solar and wind...
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Sustainability – The Value of Integrated Reporting
Sustainability is a business practice important to all businesses of all sizes that is beginning to impact across the entire supply chain, as more and more global firms begin to see securing a green...
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Facing the Dirty Truth About Recyclable Plastics
The recyclable plastic bags you get at the green grocer are not biodegradable. But product life-cycle assessments, which are about to become more prominent in the marketplace, fail to consider whether...
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Watts Up: Does Virtualization Really Save Energy?
Lays out the case for how using virtualization can save very significant amounts of energy, especially in large data centers. Breaks down resource requirements in terms of RAM, storage and ultimately...
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Energy Issues Could Help Define the 2012 Republican Primary
Argues that energy and environmental issues, and the candidate stances on them, will play a large role in the 2012 presidential election. While president Obama’s position may be well known, for most...
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20 Questions To Ask Your Sustainability Reporting Manager
In this post Elaine focuses on the importance of critically reviewing the organization's sustainability reporting by posing and then speaking to a series of questions that focus in on various aspects...
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Tapping Social Media’s Potential To Muster a Vast Green Army
A rapidly expanding universe of citizens’ groups, researchers, and environmental organizations are making use of social media and smart phone applications to document changes in the natural world and...
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Energy Policy by Crisis
Talks about a sobering scenario, called Oil Shock Wave played out at the National Summit on Energy Security that simulated a cabinet level crisis meeting following an oil supply disruption that...
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Barack Obama: A Mediocre Energy President
Critique of the Obama presidency's energy policies. This post makes the painfully accurate point that the Obama administration has essentially given the big Wall Street bankers a free pass and has...
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Thinking about Green VDI
Looks at how replacing desktops with thin clients can save money and power for an organization. The post builds its case using step by step comparison of the computing resources usage scenarios and how...
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Advanced Hydropower Gets New Funding from DOE and Interior Departments
Reports on new funding by the DOE and the Department of Interior for various advanced hydro projects, including sustainable run of the river hydro and pumped storage as well. The announced $17 million...
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Early Stage Cleantech Venture and the Next Billion Dollar Businesses
Looks at how cleantech has the potential to produce the next billion dollar companies and become the engine of growth for the US; and goes on to look at how the entrepreneurial ecosystem can be...
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Setting a Strategy for Sustainability
Argues why businesses should move beyond the duality of environmental concerns and making money to expos the false divide between environmental and business thinking. It makes the case that doing so is...
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Do Oil Companies Pay Their Fair Share?
This post reports on the recently released Green Scissors report that argues that the massive subsidies, mostly in the form of tax breaks, which the oil companies have long been getting are distorting...
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When Cities and Wetlands Collide
Describes the winning entry in the recent Gowanus Lowline Competition. The winning entry, which is described encapsulates the kind of far sighted bio-mimetic and bio-symbiotic urban design our country...
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Green Marketing Should Focus on The People
Summarizes new report from ecoAmerica that maintains that the environmental movement has not been successful in achieving its goals because it has not connected with the people. By focusing too...
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Changing the Climate Conversation to Conservation
This post makes the argument that changing the conversation about global warming -- a conversation that has become politically charged -- into a conversation about energy conservation, which will not...
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A Solar Panel on Every Roof? In U.S., Still a Distant Dream
Daunted by high up-front costs, U.S. homeowners continue to shy away from residential solar power systems, even as utility-scale solar projects are taking off. But with do-it-yourself kits and other...
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Open Sustainability Innovation Gives Companies a Competitive Advantage
This post makes the point that companies need a long-term and open approach to thinking about sustainability and innovation that will require companies to adopt a more collaborative perspective and a...
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Is the Rising Data Center Energy Crisis Over?
This post on the subject of growing energy usage by data centers examining a recent report on how the rate of increase in the energy usage for data centers has been quite a bit lower than was...
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Exports May Be a Big Opportunity for U.S. Advanced Battery Manufacturers
This post suggests that export markets exist for U.S. manufactured advanced batteries, in developing countries that have electric grids that are less developed and more prone to failure than the grids...
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Reporting: How the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Does It
In this post Elaine analyzes the GRI's own sustainability report, asking what extent GRI Stakeholders should be content with a report about direct impacts and outputs (the things that the GRI is...
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Social Media & CSR: Rules, People and Tools
Social Media goes hand in hand with corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and community investment, but figuring it all out can be daunting. Here are some rules you must know, people you...
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New Advanced Biofuel Identified That Can Replace Diesel Fuel
The continuing quest for advanced biofuels based off of synthetic biology has made an important advance with researchers at the Joint BioENergy Institute (JBEI) -- based at the Lawrence Livermore Lab...
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Top 5 Things Cleantech Entrepreneurs Fail to Understand About Raising Venture...
Points out five mistakes cleantech startups often make that impede their ability to raise venture capital. Amongst other things it points out that having a great technology by itself is not enough; a...
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The Top 10 Women in Biofuels
As the founder of the Bay Area networking group, Women In Cleantech & Sustainability, I am keenly interested in learning about who the media thinks as being the most influential women in the field....
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The Solar Soldier Is No Fad
Describes how the US military is pushing ahead with a leading edge adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, and how the boost provided may help open up markets for renewable...
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