Climate Pulse

Photo via MotorTrend VW's 2011 Touareg Hybrid The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many splashy auto announcements--Porsche's first ever plug-in hybrid, a new Aud...Read the full story on TreeHugger [continue]

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The construction and project management firm has installed 1e's PC power management suite on 3,000 computers in Europe, allowing the firm to make quick progress on its corporate-wide energy efficiency goal. [continue]

Image: Knossos Induction Lights Are Close, But No Cigar Most people who have been following lighting tech seem to be convinced that light-emitting diode (LED) lights are the future, but it's always good to see new research being done on them. The more sure we are that they're the way to go, the... [continue]

With 500 members in 42 states and 11 countries, the Eco-Dentistry Association has launched a certification program for green dental practices and named its two inaugural recipients. [continue]

In the midst of a gold rush of clean technologies, some observers believe we're still years from making a dent in the national carbon footprint. But these three shovel-ready technologies show a low-carbon future is already within sight. [continue]

Installing earth tubes at Aldo Leopold Center. Photo: from Renew magazine Dumb Roofs Renew magazine for Jan - Mar covers a lot of ground in its 106 pages on "technology for a sustainable future." But for me the stand-out article covers a subject dear to my heart. The dumbest idea in Australian... [continue]

Photo: SAGE Electrochromics SAGE Electrochromics Gets $100+ Million Another day, another announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE). Yesterday, it was $100 million in funding for clean tech energy projects via ARPA-E, and today it's $72 million in loan guarantees which are being added to... [continue]

Photo via Håvar og Solveig If you have a Kindle, and you're enviously eyeing the iPad as an improvement upon the e-reader you're holding in your hands, you have at least 10 reasons to feel content with what you have. Your Kindle may be more versatile than you think, and do the same things that... [continue]

Photo via Marcin Wichary Google's PowerMeter tool is taking a bite out of the slow progress we're making toward a smart grid by jumping over utilities that move at the speed-of-molasses and putting energy data in front of users right away, including creating an easy-to-use energy monitoring... [continue]