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US wind gains speed

ICIS co-blogger Barbara Ortner told me two weeks ago that my post about the top 10 wind turbine spenders in the US are registering more than a hundred visits per day. Meanwhile, I've been getting so many press release about wind energy investments, joint ventures, etc. in the past few weeks (see...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008
To Russia with green love

Consulting firm Frost & Sullivan said Russia should start developing a renewable energy sector even though the country is the world's largest gas producer with rich oil and coal reserves. Oil and gas production regions in Russia is faced with rapid decline, the firm said, and green energy development...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-21-2008
Dangling the hybrid carrot

According to several news reports, majority of US folks (including Congress) are against bailing out the cash-strapped Big 3 automobile makers -- GM, Ford and privately-held Chrysler -- but there are worries especially within environmental groups if the financial crisis will push development of US electric...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Green powerless in chemicals

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Center for Resource Solutions awarded late last month their annual Green Power Leadership Awards to 25 organizations/companies who either purchase, supply or develop renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, low-impact...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
World Toilet Summit

I was eating breakfast while surfing the web, and thinking of serious election-aftermath stuff to post in the blog when this news about this week's ongoing World Toilet Summit in Macau caught my attention. At first I was amused by the notion of a global toilet expo and all the crappy notions that...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
More politics on energy

Here's another energy-based issue that both US presidential candidates seem to agree on: the development of clean coal. According to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) , both Obama and McCain recognized the need for clean coal technology in order to utilize abundant coal resource...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-04-2008
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
California prison reduces carbon footprint

California's prison system is aiming to be the greenest in the US as the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) already started installing 16 energy efficiency projects that expects to save more than 28 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, 650,000 therms of natural gas and...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-13-2008
Green stimulus package needed

Can the green industry help reverse the current unemployment rise in the US? According to the NY Times last week , the Department of Labor reported the month of September as the worst unemployment record in five years, with 760,000 jobs lost in the past nine consecutive months. This does not even include...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008
Green victory from senate bill proposal

Expansion within the US green sector could further explode if the House of Representatives and President Bush will approve the $18bn clean energy tax incentives passed by the Senate yesterday as part of the huge Baucus-Grassley bill. The amended proposal replaced the H.R. 6049 energy tax legislation...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-24-2008

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