The Chinese car-and-battery maker already beat GM, Toyota, and Nissan to market with the first plug-in hybrid. Now the 15-year-old company is on the verge of doing the same with its all-electric full-size E6 — which BYD wants to start selling in the U.S. by the end of 2010, even though it doesn’t yet...
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BYD – Is it the 16th most innovative company in the world
A New Era of Climate Change Consciousness
We know that recommendations coming from Copenhagen will likely take years to have practical effect. Meantime, companies are trying to understand how those recommendations–and resulting legislation–will impact their bottom lines. And smart companies are starting early by making climate change part of their business strategies. I had spoken with David Hone, Shell’s climate change...
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Wanna Supply Energy For Those Electric Cars? We’ve Got A Huge Bolivia Problem
Unfortunately for those who are expecting electric cars to spring out of the woodwork in the next few years (remembering that the President’s plan calls for 1 million plug-in hybrids by 2015) Mitsubishi estimates that the world will need 500,000 tons per year at full ramp up. The Salar di Uyuni deposit in Bolivia...
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It’s Official: Google Can Buy and Sell Energy
In December, Google formed an energy subsidiary with the creative moniker of Google Energy. Last month, Google quietly put in a request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell electricity on wholesale markets. And now FERC has officially approved (PDF) the request for Google to buy and sell energy at market...
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NASA Releases an Economic Model for Climate Change in the 21st Century
Road transportation is our single greatest threat in the near term, but fulfilling our electrical power needs will be an even bigger problem in the future.
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Rotten Corps: Biggest Cos Cause $2.2 Trillion in Environmental Damage Each Year
We spend a lot of time heaping praise on companies that have greened their business practices. But the truth is that the world’s corporations have a long way to go according to an unpublished UN report uncovered by the UK Guardian. The report, conducted by London consulting firm Trucost, claims that the activities of...
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The Top 5 Cities for Green Jobs
Looking for a green job and have the freedom to relocate? You might want to think strategically about where you move. According to the Center for American Progress, these are the top 5 cities for green jobs: 1. San Francisco
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How slums can save the planet
Sixty million people in the developing world are leaving the countryside every year. The squatter cities that have emerged can teach us much about future urban living. Building on that insight, Calthorpe became one of the founders of the new urbanism, along with Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and others. In 1985 he introduced the...
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Green Power: Geopolitics after Oil
A large-scale deployment of clean energy technology is gaining speed on the global stage, causing shifts of significant geopolitical consequence. As clean energy moves from margin to mainstream, it is set to alter the balance of energy security and energy power among key regions of the world. The degree to which frameworks are established...
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Has U.S. “missed the boat” on long-range renewable energy planning?
The transition to cleaner renewable energy isn’t going to happen overnight, the president said. “But what we should be doing is planning over the next 20, 30 years to move in that direction. That’s what countries like China are doing. That’s what countries like France are doing. That’s what countries all across Europe are...
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