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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
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
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
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
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
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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