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Can a new battery reinvent the idea of a rechargeable battery? Call it Cambridge crude. It could make refueling as easy as getting gas is.

2 | June 7, 2011 12:55am | By Boonsri Dickinson

The UK calls for architects and designers to turn electricity pylons into works of art, and allay fears of ruining the countryside.

4 | May 23, 2011 7:10am | By Mark Halper

HONG KONG -- Tiny solar panels featured strongly among eco-friendly toys at this year's Hong Kong Toy Fair.

1 | January 11, 2012 12:21am | By Vanessa Ko

In a new SmartPlanet column, analyst Vinnie Mirchandani outlines four key attributes companies need to compete when technology touches all industries.

April 27, 2012 3:00am | By Vinnie Mirchandani

After the next natural disaster (or zombie apocalypse) strikes, solar powered support modules could save lives with communications, electricity, and water.

5 | April 26, 2012 9:05pm | By David Worthington

Planetary Resources, funded by some of the world's richest investors, hopes to create a multi-trillion dollar industry.

5 | April 25, 2012 4:00am | By Tuan C. Nguyen

The company's focus on internal and external efforts to reduce its environmental impact bears repeating across the retail sector.

4 | November 25, 2010 4:44am | By Heather Clancy

The Atlantic Yards design and development team reveal plans for what would be the world's tallest pre-fabricated tower.

2 | November 18, 2011 5:43am | By Sun Joo Kim

During Climate Week NYC last week, Climate Group CEO Steve Howard said we didn't get a global climate agreement in Copenhagen last year, and we won't get it in Cancun this year, so we need to make...

2 | September 27, 2010 5:41am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

NASA engineers weigh in on the controversial design of Jabulani, the official soccer ball of the World Cup.

9 | June 22, 2010 12:01am | By Deborah Gage

At the Internet Week New York conference, corporate executives say consumers expect more when it comes to companies' attempts to "do good."

3 | June 10, 2010 1:22pm | By Caroline McCarthy

So far, the financial services giant has spent more than $24.3 billion on its own initiatives related to climate change

1 | May 12, 2010 4:04am | By Heather Clancy

SmartPlanet talked to founder and Chairman of DesignBuildBluff, Hank Louis, about the challenges of designing off the grid, alternative building methods, and why the design build philosophy just...

March 23, 2012 9:16am | By Beth Carter

Major League Baseball develops new app to collect and share environmental, operations best practices across stadium

April 16, 2010 4:21am | By Heather Clancy

Defying expectations, high-rise design and construction has flourished around the world since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Meet the next generation of high-performance skyscrapers.

3 | September 8, 2011 6:57pm | By Reena Jana

Much has happened over that decade to set us up for miracles to come. And needs are growing. These twin forces of supply and demand will be reflected in some easy-to-conceive changes, to which...

December 29, 2009 6:57am | By Dana Blankenhorn

The climate change debate overshadows the REAL reason you should embrace sustainability -- it just makes good business sense.

1 | December 8, 2009 9:10am | By Heather Clancy

General Electric will acquire Commtest, a New Zealand-based company that designs health information systems for industrial machinery.

August 19, 2011 8:15am | By Andrew Nusca

Japan takes another step away from nuclear, but the global debate rages. China, supposedly stalling its nuclear program, has connected a fast neutron reactor to the grid.

5 | August 19, 2011 5:38am | By Mark Halper

The Galvin Electricity Initiative is advocating the idea of Smart Microgrids which are like centralized grids only much smaller and often owned and operated by communities, neighborhoods,...

1 | September 28, 2009 9:56am | By John Dodge