At the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), leading researchers are being brought together to work on an ambitious project: to develop an integrated solar energy-to-fuel conversion system and move it from the bench-top discovery phase and bring it to the market for commercialization. It will require an amalgamation of experts from multiple disciplines to [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, energy, Environment, funding, government, growth, innovation, opportunity, sustainability, Technology
The global market for bottled water is forecast to reach $86,421.2 million by next year. Around 200 billion bottles of water are consumed in a year creating flow of garbage with no end in sight.
To suppress the flow of garbage and the additional use of energy for purification, New York City is promoting its [...]
Filed under: Community, Environment, News on July 23rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, consumer, Environment, government
A recent report reveals that the Australian New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education’s Fiber Optic broadband project is ahead of schedule. Telstra Corporation Limited, which agreed to have the project finished by September, has already laid out 99 percent of the 4500km fiber optic network.
“There has been no delay with the project, which is [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology, education on July 14th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: government, growth, innovation, opportunity
When it comes to cinema, some of the finest examples of enduring classics can be found in the silent film genre – an era that dates before 1929. Sadly, many examples of this art form have already disappeared. “Only about 20 percent of the films produced in America during the silent era – that is, [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on June 17th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: culture, government
According to the 2010 State of the Nonprofit Sector, a new survey from the Nonprofit Finance Fund, only 18 percent of more than 1,300 nonprofit leaders who participated in the survey expect their organizations to have a surplus of funds for 2010. This is despite the fact that 35 percent of the respondents reported a [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on April 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: finance, government, philanthropy
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
Tagged with: Business, clean energy, economy, government, growth, innovation, markets, networks, News, Technology
Funding from the UK Innovation Investment Fund (UKIIF) was announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who claims it demonstrates a “commitment to the industries and the technologies.”
The UKIIF was announced by Brown last June and will target slow growing businesses, start-ups and spin-outs including those in the pre-profit and pre-revenue stages of development.
It was [...]
Filed under: News, Uncategorized on February 25th, 2010 @ 11:34 am
Tagged with: Business, economy, global, government, innovation, start-up, startup, strategy, sustainability, Technology
This week, a business coalition formed by AT&T and the Henry Ford Community College announced the creation of the Michigan Alliance for High-Tech Skills Training, an industry-led job retraining program that will be available to displaced workers and interested students in Michigan this year.
Henry Ford Community College will design a curriculum to develop core competencies [...]
Filed under: News on February 12th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: Business, economy, efficiency, funding, government, infrastructure, jobs, markets
The necessity for a radical change in Russia’s economic development has become evident in recent years. President Medvedev has responded by formulating principles of economic development and outlining the industrial priorities of the state. However, the success of Russia’s effort to modernize depends on real cooperation between government and society in taking concrete actions that [...]
Filed under: News on February 9th, 2010 @ 2:03 pm
Tagged with: Business, Community, economy, global, government, growth, innovation, Technology
Chemotherapy has been proven an effective treatment for cancer.
A new species of microbe is flourishing in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.