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IBM Joins Smart-grid Consortium
IBM has joined the EDISON research consortium, a Denmark-based collaborative aimed at developing an intelligent infrastructure for large-scale adoption of electric vehicles powered by sustainable energy. EDISON stands for Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and ...
Volkswagen Teams with Toshiba to Sell Electric Car by 2012
German automakers have been late in coming to the electric car game. However, ...
LG and Samsung Announce Solar-Charging Phones
LG and Samsung are both launching cell phones with built-in solar panels for recharging the battery, PC World reports.
Samsung's "Blue Earth" is meant to look like ...
Ingram Book Co. Saves with Energy Efficient Warehousing
Ingram Book Co. distributes over 30 million books a year from a 355,000 square foot warehouse in Oregon, reports the News-Review. Here are some of the steps they've taken to save energy and resources:
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Obama’s Energy Nominee: ‘Efficiency Is No. 1 Priority’
Steven Chu, the Energy Secretary nominee for the Obama administration, told a congressional committee this week that he while he supports nuclear and clean coal energy sources, he believes that the ...
Apple Unveils Super Green 17′ Macbook Pro
Yesterday Apple showed off the new generation 17-inch MacBook Pro, the latest edition of "the world’s greenest family of notebooks."
The notebook is less than an inch thick, is made of highly ...
Ener1 Applies For DOE Funding
Ener1 Inc. was the first applicant for the Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Incentive Program, a $25 billion low-interest federal loans to encourage development of fuel-efficient vehicles and components, AP ...
Utilities Partner For Plug-In Vehicle Trial
Advanced Energy, in partnership with Duke Energy and Progress Energy, announced it is initiating a smart charging trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Twelve converted Toyota Priuses will be equipped with ...
GM, Utilities Partner to Speed Up Commercialization of Plug-Ins
Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America
A solar radio-site system from Ericsson will provide enough clean energy to power Digicel's network coverage in remote areas of Suriname, the company announced.
The system will help Digicel, the largest mobile ...
Honda, GE, GM Lead 1Q Clean Energy Patent Race
The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index, which illustrates clean energy patent trends and the top patent owners, shows fuel cells continuing to dominate long term trends, intellectual property law firm Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti ...
NEC Develops Energy-Saving Server
NEC is marketing a new server dubbed Eco Center. The company says it consumes up to 55 percent less power, takes up 50 percent less space and is approximately 58 percent ...
Are Hybrids Safe For Drivers?
There is a legitimate scientific reason for asking whether hybrid vehicles are healthy for drivers, writes Jim Motavalli, in the New York Times.
Motavalli, editor of E: The Environmental Magazine, and author ...
Call2Recycle Reports 12% Increase In Battery Recycling
The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation reported a twelve percent increase in collection numbers with more than 6.3 million pounds of rechargeable batteries recycled through its Call2Recycle program.
RBRC says that one ...
Texas Instruments, MIT Develop Energy-Efficient Microchip
Texas Instrument and MIT researchers unveiled a new energy-efficient microchip that could eventually be used in cell phones, implantable medical devices and sensors. The key to the chip is that ...
Dot Hill Joins Two Green Groups
Dot Hill Systems announced it has joined the Green Grid and the Storage Networking Industry Associoation Green Storage Initiative, two organizations aimed at promoting "green" energy-efficient IT solutions. "Energy efficiency in ...
AT&T Burned by Green Tech
Sprint Outlines Use Of Alternative Energy Sources
Sprint has released a little information on its moves into alternative energy sources, many of which are used for backup power in cases of outages.
Hydrogen fuel cells have been deployed at more than 200 ...
Mayor’s Office Hopes “Every New Yorker” Will Recycle Phones With Nokia
Silicon Valley Execs Get Behind Plug-In Hybrids
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
