On Monday, August 16th, China presented irrevocable evidence that it is indeed on the fast track toward becoming a formidable world power. With its GDP amounting to $1.34 trillion, the country was able to overtake Japan as the second largest economy in the world.
Currently, Japan’s overall economic output totals $1.29 trillion. Its economy grew 0.4 [...]
A survey conducted by The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) highlighted the importance of “natural capital” to companies based in biodiversity-rich developing economies. According to the report, nearly half of the CEOs in Latin America and Africa saw the decline of biodiversity as a threat to business growth. In contrast, only 20 percent of [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News on August 13th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, economy, Environment, sustainability
Owner of several restaurants including Blue Hill in Manhattan, and named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2009, Dan Barber has recently become an advocate of a new approach to feeding the world.
According to the unique chef-scholar, “conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it’s never produced anything [...]
Filed under: News on April 5th, 2010 @ 7:47 pm
Tagged with: economy, entrepreneur, Environment, innovation, sustainability
Determined to hold on to their title as most eco-friendly car company, Hyundai introduced a new gas-hybrid concept at this month’s Detroit Auto Show. But the Blue Will is much more than just a plug-in hybrid car.
The Blue Will’s glass roof integrates an array of dye-sensitive solar panels designed to collect the sun’s energy while [...]
Filed under: News on March 15th, 2010 @ 10:41 am
Tagged with: Business, clean energy, economy, efficiency, energy, innovation, markets, Technology
This week industrial engineer James Dyson stressed the role of science and engineering with the release of a new report entitled “Making the UK the leading high-tech exporter in Europe”.
Dyson – who is perhaps best known for his bagless vacuum cleaners – is calling for more investment and support for innovative engineering. Together with some [...]
Filed under: News on March 11th, 2010 @ 9:00 am
Tagged with: Business, clean energy, economy, global, markets, Technology
GreenRoad announced last month that it has raised $10 million in financing from Generation Investment Management, the investment firm co-founded by Al Gore in 2004.
GreenRoad, which is developing technologies to encourage safe and fuel-efficient driving behavior, intends to use the proceeds to accelerate the deployment of its GreenRoad 360 service among new and existing customers.
GreenRoad [...]
Filed under: News on March 10th, 2010 @ 12:34 pm
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The Society for Information Display (SID) announced this week its lineup of keynote presenters slated for Display Week 2010, May 23-28, 2010, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. The 48th annual SID International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition returns to the Pacific Northwest this year amid growing commercialization and the first stirrings of an [...]
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Summit started on Monday, attracting thousands of investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers vying to reinvent the energy infrastructure to be cleaner and more efficient. At the conference, scientists and entrepreneurs will be showing off early stage clean tech ideas, such as kinetic energy storage systems and methods for low cost [...]
Filed under: News on March 3rd, 2010 @ 11:15 am
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If the high-tech development of a California-made fuel cell that produces electricity is a genuine clean-energy breakthrough, then American ingenuity will have reached some important new milestones.
First, it could indicate a significant revival of the U.S. technological innovation that has largely slipped away into the hands of China, Germany, and other nations. China is currently [...]
Filed under: News on March 1st, 2010 @ 9:26 am
Tagged with: Business, clean energy, economy, effective, efficiency, energy, Environment, funding, global, government, innovation, sustainability, Technology, US
A near 10 percent drop in clean tech investments last year indicated that the U.S. might be losing its place as the world’s top investor and enabler of clean tech innovation.
Last year, U.S. clean tech investments dropped to a five year low, from 72 percent of the worldwide total in 2008 to 62 percent, [...]
Filed under: News on February 26th, 2010 @ 7:54 am
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Chemotherapy has been proven an effective treatment for cancer.
A new species of microbe is flourishing in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.