Archive for June, 2008

Dirt Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Passes Benchmark Test

Dye-sensitized, silicon-free solar cells have passed an important viability test at a Chinese lab. Do innovations like this herald the age of cheap solar power?

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Floods, Droughts On The Rise In Face Of Climate Change

As the South continues to fight out of last year’s record drought, the Midwest is losing its crops beneath a series of record floods. What’s causing this chaos?

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The Daily Five: Monday, 30 June, 2008

A big advance for silicon-free solar power technology; Tesla plans to announce a new passenger vehicle later today; and CleanTech IPOs stay stuck in the pipeline.

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The Daily Five: Sunday, 29 June, 2008

The CleanTech Week in Review: A setback for U.S. solar power; oil prices have another record-setting run; and will kudzu be king?

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The Daily Five: Saturday, 28 June, 2008

Reaction to the U.S. Bureau of Land management’s solar power freeze; Big Coal gets into renewable energy; and Dyson won’t build electric cars, after all.

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The Daily Five: Friday, 27 June, 2008

Oil opens lower in Asia after setting records Thursday; an Aussie company reveals their astonishing new car engine; and even Big Oil is turning to wind power.

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The Daily Five: Thursday, 26 June, 2008

The Grand Canyon gets a break from uranium mining; shopping kudzu for ethanol conversion; and Dyson wants to swap vacuums for electric cars.

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Going Green Goes Upscale: The Furman Cliffs Cottage

Furman University, Southern Living, and Duke Energy have come together to show that living a sustainable lifestyle may mean giving up less luxury than you think.

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Does Daimler’s All-Electric smart Trump GM’s Volt?

General Motors hopes its Chevy Volt will introduce electric cars to the masses. But Daimler’s electric smart may be the first real plug-in People’s Car.

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