Videos

Can we detect earthquakes before they strike? Richard Allen has created Elarms, a suite of algorithms designed to measure real time seismic data and then rapidly detect the initiation of an...

7 | May 29, 2009 11:34am

Dan Kammen directs the Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on greening our homes and highways from both a science...

3 | May 29, 2009 11:34am

Fed up with long check-in lines before you fly? Tired of trying to remember where you tucked away your boarding pass? SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das explains how paperless mobile boarding...

2 | May 28, 2009 4:28pm

What could your business do better? At the Greentech Media and Groom Energy, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Summit in Burlingame, Calif., panelists explain what "The Climate Registry" is, and how...

1 | May 15, 2009 12:34pm

Autodesk tools aim to help designers conceptualize projects on a computer before starting the costly (and energy-intense) construction process. Correspondent Sumi Das talks to the company's...

1 | April 7, 2009 10:57am

The historic California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has re-opened for business and is being called the 'greenest museum' in the world. Correspondent Sumi Das talks to Aaron Pope, the...

1 | March 31, 2009 8:50am

At the Green:Net conference in San Francisco, John Clark of GridPoint and Richard Lowenthal of Coulomb Technologies discuss how the largest obstacle for next-generation electric cars is standards....

1 | March 26, 2009 1:19pm

At the Green: Net '09 conference in San Francisco, Erin Carlson, director of Yahoo for Good, breaks down the demographics of green-minded consumers who visit the Web site. She says most people...

1 | March 26, 2009 8:33am

At the Green: Net '09 Conference in San Francisco, Bob Metcalfe, a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners, explained how Washington actually helped the Internet, and where the best place to...

1 | March 25, 2009 2:43pm

At the Green: Net '09 Conference in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom lays out the city's future plans for reducing emissions even further. He explains the city's current electric-car project,...

1 | March 25, 2009 2:33pm

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative...

1 | February 12, 2009 2:58pm

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, explains how his company came up with 26 "grand...

1 | February 12, 2009 2:26pm

Without a doubt, sticky notes are handy, but in many ways they're stuck in the analog world. Correspondent Sumi Das introduces us to Quickies, an MIT Media Lab invention that combines sticky note...

8 | December 19, 2008 8:23am

Autodesk tools aim to help designers conceptualize projects on a computer before starting the costly (and energy-intense) production process. Correspondent Sumi Das takes a tour of Autodesk's new...

1 | December 8, 2008 2:01pm

At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Praveen Mandal, president of Coulomb Technologies, outlines the difficulties in finding places to plug in rechargeable cars and balancing...

1 | December 5, 2008 3:37pm