Energy

How about it: Would you wait an extra day for a package if you knew it was a greener option?

April 6, 2010 3:26pm | By Heather Clancy

NASA introduces Solo-Trec, an unmanned, underwater robot that runs completely on thermal power. Without energy limits, will a new generation of submersible vehicles plunge into better marine research?

4 | April 6, 2010 11:58am | By Melissa Mahony

China is on track to to bring online this month its first offshore wind farm, a 102-megawatt array located in the Yangtze River delta near Shanghai.

1 | April 5, 2010 12:55pm | By Andrew Nusca

Should the United States ever build offshore wind farms, researchers have proposed a way to get the most consistent bang for the blade.

1 | April 5, 2010 10:30am | By Melissa Mahony

The nation's largest private, non-profit institution of higher education says it will have less than zero emissions by 2040.

April 5, 2010 7:12am | By Andrew Nusca

For Cary Fowler, saving thousands of seed varieties in a fail-safe vault in a remote Norweigen mountain is about more than life and death. It's about justice.

2 | April 5, 2010 4:02am | By Christina Hernandez

Solar panels could bring shadow art to green building designs. Art imitates renewable energy, or renewable energy imitates art?

1 | April 2, 2010 11:16am | By Melissa Mahony

Barcelona, Spain is both dreamy and green thanks to new wireless LED street lamps that use timers and motion detectors to save energy.

4 | April 2, 2010 6:33am | By Andrew Nusca

In Earth Inc., Gregory Unruh says companies can become more sustainable by applying biosphere rules to their operations.

April 2, 2010 5:00am | By Heather Clancy

With Passover underway and Easter around the corner, SmartPlanet talked to two religious leaders about the role of faith.

3 | April 2, 2010 4:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

From restaurant oil, United Environment & Energy develops a temperature-sensitive roof coating that flips between reflecting and transmitting heat.

4 | April 1, 2010 6:52pm | By Melissa Mahony

Many businesses aren't in hurry to make sustainability part of their end-to-end operations.

6 | April 1, 2010 5:00am | By Heather Clancy

When will smart grid investment turn a profit? According to a new survey, even utility companies don't know.

2 | April 1, 2010 1:06am | By Andrew Nusca

Greenpeace is imploring big cloud vendors to set THE example about how rapidly-growing businesses can reduce their carbon emissions. The cloud is forecast to grow four-fold by 2020.

2 | March 31, 2010 9:25am | By John Dodge

Venture capital investments for the first quarter totaled $1.9 billion, up 29 percent from the fourth quarter and 83 percent from a year ago, according to data from the Cleantech Group and Deloitte.

March 31, 2010 9:15am | By Larry Dignan

After a longstanding drilling ban off the Atlantic Coast, Obama proposes extracting oil and gas from seabeds from Delaware to Florida. A way to wean off foreign oil or a short-sighted...

10 | March 31, 2010 8:24am | By Melissa Mahony

Ford and Microsoft announced on Wednesday that they are partnering on a web application, Hohm, that will help drivers monitor and manage recharging for their electric vehicles.

March 31, 2010 8:05am | By Andrew Nusca

All that they're asking is that start-ups be privately held, in business less than three years, and focused on something linked to IBM's SmarterPlanet initiative

March 31, 2010 5:14am | By Dana Blankenhorn

Heightened interest in energy efficiency inspires some to consider alternatives to the LEED framework.

1 | March 31, 2010 5:02am | By Heather Clancy

Ceres, an organization dedicated to making sustainability a core part of EVERY business, releases guidelines for making it a more common boardroom topic.

2 | March 30, 2010 12:39pm | By Heather Clancy