• Is biomimicry a megacategory of cleantech?

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:30:56
    I had a terrific interview last week with natural sciences expert Janine Benyus, who is the foremost authority on an emerging area of science called biomimicry. In fact, Benyus is credited with coining the term in the1990s. Basically, biomimicry is a...

  • View from the White House on Energy Innovation

    Updated: 2010-05-31 04:30:00
    by Richard T. StuebiOn behalf of the President of the Cleveland Foundation Ronn Richard, I was privileged to attend an all-day bull session on May 7 hosted by the White House on energy innovation. With support from the Kauffman Foundation, the White ...

  • Witch Hunt for Climate Scientists

    Updated: 2010-05-30 12:38:44
    A debate is currently raging in Virginia over the state’s ability to push a political agenda onto scientific research and it could have a fundamental effect on how research is condicted in this country.  Last year much attention was paid to a number of e-mails from climate scientists which led some to believe that the risks of [...]

  • Really?

    Updated: 2010-05-29 18:09:20
    Last week TransOcean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the same rig that is at the center of what is in all likelihood to become one of the world’s worst ecological disasters, filed papers in a Houston Court.  The filing requests that TransOcean’s liability be capped at $27mm.  This in spite of the fact that TransOcean will [...]

  • Suntech Cleared To Sell In The UK

    Updated: 2010-05-28 23:00:09
    The renewable energy scene in the United Kingdom has been dominated by wind power but Suntech Power Holdings (STP:NYSE)is hoping to change that as the solar manufacturer announced today it has cleared the hurdle for selling in the UK.Suntech most pop...

  • CEI Weekly: CEI Sues NASA to Uncover Key Global Warming Docs

    Updated: 2010-05-28 21:46:00
    CEI weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features CEI's federal lawsuit against NASA to force them to comply with a FOIA request for Global Warming data.

  • Myths About Green Energy: The Truth Is, It’s Corporate Welfare That Destroys American Jobs

    Updated: 2010-05-28 19:06:44
    In The Washington Post, Robert Bryce debunks five myths about green energy: it won’t create jobs, won’t help the environment, and won’t make America less dependent on despotic foreign regimes. The $800 billion stimulus package is using taxpayer subsidies to replace…

  • President Obama – Connecting the BP oil disaster with the need for climate legislation

    Updated: 2010-05-28 15:59:02
    On Grist, there are signs that President Obama is ready to connect the oil spill to the need for comprehensive climate and clean energy bill. At a fundraiser in San Francisco the President said: “The reason that folks are now having to go down a mile deep into the ocean, and then another mile drilling into [...]

  • Join Us in Cancun (Spring Break wear optional)

    Updated: 2010-05-28 01:00:00
    Applications are now available for SustainUS’s Agents of Change delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, November 29-December 10. Applicants must be 18-26 years old at the start of the negotiations, and must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or have been studying or working in the [...]

  • SunPower And AU Optronics Join Forces On Malaysian Solar Cell Plant

    Updated: 2010-05-27 22:52:22
    In a move that gives SunPower (SPWRA, SPWRB:NASDAQ) some much-needed liquidity, the company announced today that it has constructed a joint venture with AU Optronics (AUO:NYSE), a leading global manufacturer of thin-film transistor liquid-crystal di...

  • On Murkowski’s “Resolution of Disapproval”

    Updated: 2010-05-27 18:25:16
    The American Power Act, the bill that would give EPA new tools to regulate carbon pollution, make us more energy secure as a nation, and enhance our competitiveness, is the best chance we have for a comprehensive climate and clean energy bill this year, maybe even this decade. Instead of rallying around Senators Kerry and Lieberman’s [...]

  • Yesterday's blog highlights

    Updated: 2010-05-27 16:11:19
    Grist asks “In wake of Gulf spill, should this be the summer of energy reform?” Their answer, of course, is yes. “Is there any good reason why President Obama, Congress, and the nation shouldn't spend the summer figuring out an energy-reform plan that would get us started in replacing oil and coal with clean, sustainable energy sources?” On [...]

  • Tesla's Strategic Relationships with Toyota and Daimler

    Updated: 2010-05-27 15:30:00
    By John Addison (5/27/10)Toyota agreed to purchase $50 million of Tesla's common stock subsequent to the closing of Tesla's currently planned initial public offering, giving Toyota over 2 percent of Tesla. The investment was negotiated with Tesla's p...

  • Risk vs. Reward

    Updated: 2010-05-27 13:49:23
    One thing that non-VCs typically don't have a good understanding of is how different venture investors view the risk versus reward tradeoff when it comes to managing portfolio companies.How do VCs get compensated, besides salary? Carry , a/k/a pro...

  • The Solar Jobs Solution: Some Perspective

    Updated: 2010-05-27 01:44:15
    A Fremont solar company gets a visit from the President and triggers another round of green tech euphoria.

  • LibertyWeek 94: Freedom of Information at UVa

    Updated: 2010-05-26 21:23:57
    Hosts Richard Morrison and Jeremy Lott welcome guest William Yeatman to Episode 94 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We examine Chris Horner’s freedom of information requests to the University of Virginia, over key Climategate figure Michael Mann.

  • Blog highlights from the past few days

    Updated: 2010-05-26 19:59:15
    E2 shares President Obama’s plan to reduce emissions from the transportation sector. “The president is directing EPA and DOT to create a first-ever national policy to increase fuel efficiency and decrease greenhouse gas pollution from medium- and heavy-duty trucks for model years 2014-2018, and an extension of the national program for cars and light-duty trucks to [...]

  • SunPower Finishes Solar Power Plant For Duke Energy

    Updated: 2010-05-26 19:00:02
    SunPower Corp. (SPWRA, SPWRB:NASDAQ) can add another solar power plant to their growing list of finished projects as they announced the completion of the 1 MW Shelby Solar Project for Duke Energy Generation Services, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (DUK:...

  • Keeping California's Clean Tech Advantage

    Updated: 2010-05-26 11:59:41
    Carbon regs will create 112,000 jobs. Take that, Meg Whitman....

  • NREL Study Shows Power Grid can Accommodate Large Increase in Wind and Solar Generation

    Updated: 2010-05-26 08:00:00
    05/26/2010 - The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently released an initial study assessing the operational impacts and economics of increased contributions from wind and solar energy producers on the power grid......

  • My Interview on Climate with Esquire Middle East

    Updated: 2010-05-26 04:21:41
    I received an email-based interview request on climate a while back from Esquire Middle East.  I have decided to include my whole response below.  The questions they ask are nearly as informative as anything I say, as they betray that the editors of the publication have pretty much bought into not only global warming alarmism, [...]

  • American Superconductor And Sinovel Reaffirm Their Commitment

    Updated: 2010-05-26 02:31:56
    Wind turbine authorities American Superconductor (AMSC:NASDAQ) and Beijing's Sinovel Wind Group announced today they will be expanding their existing strategic partnership to include new onshore and offshore wind turbine designs that have yet to be d...

  • Hail to the Chief, Indeed: President's truck order will bring fuel-saving technologies to scale

    Updated: 2010-05-25 20:39:05
    This was originally posted on the Innovation Exchange blog. There is no question that tools exists today to significantly reduce fuel consumption by medium and heavy-duty trucks. The recent National Academy of Sciences’ report on reducing emissions from these vehicles explored this in-depth as did another recent report from NESCAUM. The key question is: can we [...]

  • Queen's U study says government support for solar manufacturing a no brainer

    Updated: 2010-05-25 16:11:49
    A Queen's University study in the journal Energy Policy has come out in favour of strong government support for solar manufacturing in Ontario. The study looked at six scenarios under which both federal and Ontario government support would be provide...

  • New evidence on the job impacts of climate policy: Why now is the right time to cap carbon

    Updated: 2010-05-25 14:35:00
    This was originally posted on the Huffington Post. Opponents of climate legislation often claim that now is the wrong time to put a price on carbon, with the economy just emerging from a recession.  But a must-read study released today by the well-respected, nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics shows that the reverse is actually true: [...]

  • GE and Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation Announce 20MW Great Lakes Offshore Wind Pilot

    Updated: 2010-05-25 08:00:00
    05/25/2010 - GE and Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) of Northern Ohio recently announced a long-term partnership beginning with the development of the first fresh water offshore wind farm in the US and involving a broad range of oth...

  • Murkowski's resolution paves the way for a "Do Nothing" climate policy

    Updated: 2010-05-24 20:08:18
    Should Congress or the EPA act to address the threat of global warming?  Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Congress must act – and she’s right.  The House passed legislation last year, and recently Senators Kerry and Lieberman introduced a very different approach called the American Power Act. But both bills would cut carbon pollution, curb [...]

  • An Audit That One Can Actually Like

    Updated: 2010-05-24 14:47:00
    by Richard T. StuebiThe concept of an audit is something that is inherently, well, unsettling. The word itself implies that you might have done something wrong, and someone is coming to catch you and punish you. For sure, no-one wants to face the...

  • Series Explores 33×20 Renewable Energy Goal

    Updated: 2010-05-23 19:14:03
    California has set some ambitious targets for ramping up renewable energy sources. Some say too ambitious. The state will likely miss the first milepost this year. Next stop: 33% by 2020.

  • Ocean heat content increases update

    Updated: 2010-05-21 23:36:45
    There is a new paper in Nature this week on recent trends in ocean heat content from a large group of oceanographers led by John Lyman at PMEL. Their target is the uncertainty surrounding the various efforts to create a homogenised ocean heat content data set that deals appropriately with the various instrument changes and [...]

  • Go Tesla! EVs just may carry the cleantech sector this year after all

    Updated: 2010-05-21 22:26:00
    Most of my friends know I'm not a huge fan of EV startups. They take massive amounts of capital, the end customer (i.e. you and I) tends to be very sophisticated, demanding, and a pain in the neck, the technology is extremely challenging and I don't ...

  • The Latest on the Climate and Clean Energy Bill

    Updated: 2010-05-21 20:44:13
    Grist has a piece by Nathaniel Keohane, Director of Economic Policy and Analysis at the Environmental Defense Fund, on how the America Power Act will return the vast majority of the emission allowance value to consumers and the public, even though some of the allowances will be distributed for free. Nathaniel acknowledges that “some progressives worry [...]

  • The case for strong climate policy is simple. A cap on carbon pollution is too.

    Updated: 2010-05-21 20:29:07
    Edward L. Glaeser makes the case for simplicity in addressing climate change. I couldn’t agree more with his premise. The basic economics are indeed simple. Climate change might be the largest market failure the world has ever seen. To correct it, put the right incentives in place: correct the fact that we currently treat the [...]

  • New Poll Shows Majority of Voters in ME, MA and FL Support American Power Act

    Updated: 2010-05-21 19:51:52
    A new poll conducted to gauge the popularity of the American Power Act shows strong public support for the bill in key states. 65% of Massachusetts voters, 57% of Maine voters and 50% of Florida voters said they support the measure. These percentages jump up to 80%, 74% and 71% respectively in support of a bill [...]

  • Global Warming / Early Spring

    Updated: 2010-05-21 17:50:19
    I wish.  This is Rock Creek Lake, California, on May 20, 2010.  In a normal year our campground there would have been open a month ago. Postscript:  Save the “weather is not climate” lectures in the comments.  I understand.

  • In 2020: When China Rules the Clean Energy World

    Updated: 2010-05-21 02:07:08
    I've been most recently reading When China Rules the World. A fascinating treatise on what happens to the world economy when, over the coming decades, China's economy becomes paramount in the world economic system. China and cleantech is somethin...

  • Lake Champlain Climate Report

    Updated: 2010-05-20 23:52:25
    Lake Champlain can be seen as a big thermometer, giving a message on warming weather and climate change in our own backyard. And the thermometer is rising, as the lake freezes over less and less often since the 1970s. Here is a link to a report on how the lake is changing by a Curt Stager, [...]

  • 19 Free Market Organizations Urge the Senate to Stop the EPA’s Power Grab

    Updated: 2010-05-20 22:49:59
    Nineteen free-market groups have signed a letter urging Senators to support S. J. Res. 26, the bipartisan legislation sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to overturn the legal force and effect of EPA’s endangerment finding with respect to greenhouse gases…

  • Battle on California's Greenhouse Gas Bill: AB32

    Updated: 2010-05-20 19:30:28
    AB 32 contains a load of energy policy changes and has garnered passionate supporters and opponents....

  • The Rain in May Falls Mainly Near the Mean

    Updated: 2010-05-20 18:20:58
    Yes, it's May and yes, it's still raining in parts of California. And no, it's not all that weird, as it turns out.

  • Britain's Power Conundrum

    Updated: 2010-05-20 09:23:58
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  • BrightSource Energy Lights Up An Additional $150M In VC Funding

    Updated: 2010-05-20 05:00:05
    Solar thermal continues to be a hot form of renewable energy as BrightSource Energy announced it has raised an additional $150 million in its Series D round. An IPO must be on the horizon as existing investors VantagePoint Venture Partners, Morgan St...

  • National Panel Backs State Climate Efforts

    Updated: 2010-05-20 02:31:20
    Three panels assembled by the National Academy of Sciences agree that states play a key role in the nation's response to climate change.

  • National Research Council Give U.S. Climate Action Plan Roadmap

    Updated: 2010-05-19 23:19:00
    National Research Council (5/19/10)The National Research Council issued new three reports emphasizing why the U.S. should act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and develop a national strategy to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change....

  • The Networked Grid: Does the Residential Smart Grid Have a Killer App?

    Updated: 2010-05-19 20:00:43
    Insights into the killer app will emerge after the infrastructure is laid out. Or do we just settle for some measly energy efficiency?...

  • Evergreen Solar Launches New Solar Panels That Are Ready For The Beach

    Updated: 2010-05-19 19:00:02
    Not only can Evergreen Solar's (ESLR: NASDAQ) panels withstand heavy snow and high winds, the company can now add coastal climates issues to the list of environmental conditions. Evergreen Solar's ES-A series features the company's string-ribbon tech...

  • New Alarmist Research

    Updated: 2010-05-19 18:07:01
    Via the USA Today: Worried your mate might be headed for greener pastures? A biology study suggests you could cry “wolf”, or rather “lion”, to keep them home on the range, at least as long as you are an antelope. A study in the forthcoming July edition of The American Naturalist journal [...]

  • Polar Bear Week from Environmental Defense Reminds Us World's Largest Land Carnivore on Thin Ice

    Updated: 2010-05-19 16:00:00
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  • Media Ignores Latest "Deniers" Conference - Again

    Updated: 2010-05-19 09:38:22
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  • Elevator Speech

    Updated: 2010-05-18 18:44:19
    In business communications training, we were taught to think about the “elevator version” of the point we were trying to make.  If we were on an elevator alone with the CEO and had 30-seconds to make our pitch, what would we say. Richard Lindzen, in his presentation at the Heartland Conference, has the best short (100-ish [...]

  • What's Soot Got to Do With It?

    Updated: 2010-05-18 00:27:55
    Scientists and lawmakers are putting the spotlight on emissions other than CO2, hoping for faster progress against global warming.

  • The Media Is Ignoring Kerry’s Cap-and-Trade

    Updated: 2010-05-17 14:59:52
    After 7 months of negotiations, Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman last week unveiled a major climate bill to a chorus of…silence. On the day after the rollout, the American Power Act failed to make the front page of a…

  • Absurd Logic, But Al Gore Won An Oscar For It

    Updated: 2010-05-15 21:15:52
    It just is amazing to me that anyone can, with a straight face, advance this logic chain: Again, here’s the situation: Mississippi homeowners sued 34 energy companies and utilities operating in the Gulf Coast for damage sustained to their property during Hurricane Katrina. The homeowners alleged that the defendants had emitted greenhouse gases, [...]

  • What we can learn from studying the last millennium (or so)

    Updated: 2010-05-15 15:32:35
    With all of the emphasis that is often placed on hemispheric or global mean temperature trends during the past millennium, and the context they provide for interpreting modern warming trends, one thing is often lost in the discussion: space matters as much as time. Indeed, it is likely that the regional patterns of past climate [...]

  • Rising Temps Taking a Toll on Lizards

    Updated: 2010-05-14 21:58:34
    Four percent of lizard populations have disappeared in the last 35 years, and 20% more could follow by 2080 if climate change is left unchecked, new research finds.

  • Irony

    Updated: 2010-05-14 18:36:40
    The New Scientist (“new” in most magazine titles meaning “socialist”) has yet another whole issue aimed at slamming climate skeptics.  You might start to think they felt threatened or something. I found the cover hugely ironic: The implication I guess is that climate skeptics are somehow trying to silence real scientists.  This is enormously ironic.  With a [...]

  • Polls Underestimate Climate Change Concerns, Study Finds

    Updated: 2010-05-14 02:16:35
    If you've been paying attention at all over the last year, you've no doubt heard that Americans don't care very much about climate change.

  • Possibly the Worst Siting I Have Seen

    Updated: 2010-05-13 17:57:53
    OK, we have to exempt from the “worst” list those that are sitting in front of air conditioning exhausts, but this is just awful: The natural environment for millions of acres around this site in Russia Norway is reflective snow cover, so the temperature station is on black asphalt.

  • Geoengineering Field Tests on the Horizon?

    Updated: 2010-05-12 20:06:56
    Recent reports that Bill Gates is funding climate intervention field testing are not entirely accurate... but that doesn't mean experiments aren't on the way.

  • Video: Give our Oceans Some Love. Use Less Plastic. [Good Magazine]

    Updated: 2010-05-12 16:45:52
    Duration: 1 min 49 sec Every piece of plastic ever made still exists today, and much of this plastic has traveled from our hands to our oceans. The most important thing you can do is use less plastic. Join the Blue movement and sign the plastic pledge at SaveMyOceans.com. FYI: Song: Pot Kettle Black by Tilly [...]

  • Energy and Climate Wars

    Updated: 2010-05-11 11:48:27
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  • LibertyWeek 92: What’s Next for Cap and Trade?

    Updated: 2010-05-10 21:49:21
    Richard Morrison and Marc Scribner welcome Energy Policy Analyst William Yeatman to Episode 92 of the LibertyWeek podcast in which we discuss the prospects for John Kerry and Joe Lieberman’s latest incarnation of cap and trade legislation.

  • Kerry-(Graham)-Lieberman: a monstrous collection of payoffs to big business

    Updated: 2010-05-10 16:04:33
    The chance that the Senate will pass a comprehensive energy-rationing (a k a climate) bill this year remains close to zero.  BP’s big oil spill in the Gulf changes very little. The global warming movement peaked last June 26 when the…

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