• Charitable living: Lamborghini Diablo VT makes appearance for a good cause

    Updated: 2010-01-30 02:31:53
    Web video of a Lamborghini Diablo VT at a charity event.

  • Car Tech Live Podcast 153: How Toyota will fix its tech nightmare

    Updated: 2010-01-30 00:37:00
    Toyota spends a week in hell, the U.S. tells truckers what not to do in the cab, you don't drive as fast as you think, we take a ride in a Buick that will change your mind about grandpa's brand, and we run down 12 of the ... Originally posted at Car Tech Live Podcast

  • Tesla Motors files for $100 million IPO

    Updated: 2010-01-29 23:46:00
    The high-profile electric carmaker files papers to go public, betting that the environment is right to raise money in the burgeoning electric-vehicle business. Originally posted at Green Tech

  • All you ever wanted to know about the Chevy Volt

    Updated: 2010-01-29 18:11:00
    GM builds a Web site with technical details on the Chevy Volt.

  • A closer look at the BMW Concept ActiveE

    Updated: 2010-01-29 17:00:00
    BMW unveiled its first electric car recently at the Detroit auto show, and this video takes a look at this potentially revolutionary vehicle inside and out.

  • Hyundai is wary of direct injection in small engines

    Updated: 2010-01-29 13:00:00
    Automotive news reports on Hyundai's plans for fuel-efficient engines.

  • BMW represents at 2010 Detroit auto show

    Updated: 2010-01-28 17:56:00
    Alistair Weaver from Inside Line gives us a summary look at several of the exciting new vehicles BMW brought to the 2010 International Auto Show.

  • Desiring Streetcars

    Updated: 2010-01-27 02:32:00
    Green Blog Helping environmentally-conscientious business leaders choose environmentally-friendly . solutions About Me Full Bio Welcome to Green Blog Blog Two Paths to Service Class Packet Optical IP Telephony from A-Z IDC report : Profitability and OSS Support : A Return on Investment . Home Archives TMCnet blogs Rich Tehrani Tom Keating On Rad's Radar The Readerboard Unified Communications The SIP Invite First Coffee The Hyperconnected Enterprise Cross Talk Monetizing IP Communications Design vs . Functionality Green Blog VoIP Forums About Me Contact Channels Community Sites Desiring Streetcars One of the greenest ways of getting around is electric streetcars . These elegant , comfortable rail vehicles use far less energy than cars , can draw their power from sources other than fossil fuels , are much more attractive than buses and can shape . development Once the primary means of getting around , streetcars were targeted for elimination by a combination of an apathetic public sold on the vision of unlimited mobility , not realizing that the dark side of congestion and environmental destruction lay just around the corner and by the beneficiary car and tire makers and petroleum

  • Fantasy Island 100 Percent Renewable and Giving Back

    Updated: 2010-01-26 00:30:02
    Green Blog Helping environmentally-conscientious business leaders choose environmentally-friendly . solutions About Me Full Bio Welcome to Green Blog Blog Two Paths to Service Class Packet Optical IP Telephony from A-Z IDC report : Profitability and OSS Support : A Return on Investment . Home Archives TMCnet blogs Rich Tehrani Tom Keating On Rad's Radar The Readerboard Unified Communications The SIP Invite First Coffee The Hyperconnected Enterprise Cross Talk Monetizing IP Communications Design vs . Functionality Green Blog VoIP Forums About Me Contact Channels Community Sites Fantasy Island 100 Percent Renewable and Giving Back During the third quarter 2009, the small Danish island of Samsø reported 4000 residents , with no grants or funding , 160 switched almost completely to renewable energy through a combination of community owned wind turbines , district heat plants run on local biomass and offshore turbines installed to offset the emissions of the island's transport The island is self-sufficient , 160 and produces 140 of the energy it consumes and is exporting energy back to the mainland . That is amazing Watch slideshow of this project at ScientificAmerican dated January

  • Green Box: Green tech survey and patents

    Updated: 2010-01-19 04:07:05
    : Green Blog Helping environmentally-conscientious business leaders choose environmentally-friendly . solutions About Me Full Bio Welcome to Green Blog Blog Two Paths to Service Class Packet Optical IP Telephony from A-Z IDC report : Profitability and OSS Support : A Return on Investment . Home Archives TMCnet blogs Rich Tehrani Tom Keating On Rad's Radar The Readerboard Unified Communications The SIP Invite First Coffee The Hyperconnected Enterprise Cross Talk Monetizing IP Communications Design vs . Functionality Green Blog VoIP Forums About Me Contact Channels Community Sites Green Box : Green tech survey and patents A couple of items have landed in my inbox that are of : interest Symantec via its PR firm forwarded the green facets of its recently released findings from the firm's 2010 State of the Data Center report Among : them 70 percent of enterprises mentioned energy savings as a somewhat absolutely important initiative , which was one of the top ten 94 percent of enterprise said that reducing energy consumption was important , 89 percent said Green IT was important Green IT energy savings came up in every cloud computing topic 36 percent are considering private cloud

  • Video: GuateVerde 2009 Business Plan Competition Winner: Quetsol [in Spanish]

    Updated: 2010-01-15 00:00:22
    Duration: 1 min 20 sec Quetsol is a new business that will provide high efficiency, low cost solar technologies that aim to increase access to basic illumination, electricity generation, and water pumping in Guatemala. Their mission is to help their clients save money and improve their quality of life through the use of appropriate technology. Bookmark blog [...]

  • Massive Earthquake in Port Au Prince

    Updated: 2010-01-13 11:04:01
    Dear AIDG Supporters, At approximately 4:55 pm Eastern on Tuesday Port Au Prince experienced a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, with aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.7. There is widespread damage to infrastructure with numerous collapsed buildings. It is anticipated there will be a high casualty [...]

  • GM Promises All Electric Chevy Volt

    Updated: 2010-01-12 14:00:34
    Company: General Motors | Chevrolet Brands: Volt Pricing: 40k - Coming Nov. 2010 Range: 40 miles (+300 using gas) Speed: 100 mph Batteries: T-Shaped Lithium Ion Pack Fantastic news for those who cringed upon first learning of the combustion engine found in the Volt. Due to go on sale this coming November, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said it would be “technologically trivial” to switch the Chevy Volt to running on [...]

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