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  • Oil weaning should be shared

    I was watching the show 60 Minutes where the US President-elect Obama was being interviewed for the first time after winning the election. According to Obama, despite that the price of oil has gone down energy and a green economy will remain at the forefront of his agenda along with trying to fix the...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
  • Financial crisis and $60 oil: Now what?

    A colleague of mine (and several readers of the green blog) expressed a spreading sentiment of uncertainty whether the current financial crisis and the price downfall of crude oil will put a brake in the investment surge towards renewable energy and other clean technologies. Venture capital investments...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
  • States of the green nation

    Sustainlane.com, an online community focusing on sustainable living, released today its top green US cities for the year based on their ability to maintain healthy air, drinking water, parks and public transit systems, as well as a robust, sustainable local economy with green building, farmers markets...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2008
  • The new green leagues

    You can't have a green industry without green associations and there have been several new groups that came out just this year. This is just in the US unfortunately but anybody who can give me a new green group list (anywhere), I'll be happy to share it with the green blog readers. 1. Bioplastic...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-17-2008
  • Obama to end US oil era

    Barack Obama's democratic national convention speech last night is probably sending shivers down an oil company's spine (and perhaps the petroleum industry as well??) as he promised to end America's oil dependence from the Middle East in 1o years if he's elected president. In his speech...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-29-2008
  • Shell out of wind

    Are major oil companies just full of hot air when it comes to their clean energy strategies? Last month, Shell decided to abandon its stake in a large offshore wind farm in the UK , which was then bought by energy company E.ON and Danish utility firm DONG Energy. According to this article from the International...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2008
  • A Gore-y energy plan?

    Ex-vice president Al Gore seems to think that the US is ready and able to eliminate the use of coal, natural gas or petroleum oil in US electricity within 10 years by using alternative energies such as wind, solar and geothermal. According to his speech yesterday (see the video below), his plan of a...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-18-2008
  • The power of wind

    Wind power could be the next hot energy source according to the Department of Energy's (DOE) recently released report . The DOE said wind can provide as much as 20% of US electricity needs by 2030. In that scenario, installations of new wind power capacity would increase to more than 16,000 megawatts...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-14-2008
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