You can’t eat free… unless you’re also getting renewable, clean-burning biodiesel. Well, the world’s first environmentally sustainable tour bus was able to get a free fillup of B100, pure biodiesel, at Innovation Fuels’ New York Harbor bioefinery: “The Permibus” – the world’s first environmentally sustainable tour bus complete with an interior garden perpetuated by worms, live chicken farm, multidimensional composting system, solar panels and wood burning stove – visited renewable fuels c

1366 Technologies , a photovoltaics start-up company based in Massachusetts, won four million dollars in federal funding from the the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) . The first ARPA-E solicitation was extremely competitive with over 3,600 applications from across the country.  Evaluations were based on the potential for high impact on ARPA-E’s goals and scientific and technical merit. 1366 Technologies was the only photovoltaics (PV) company sele

Laura Ipsen is senior vice president and general manager in charge of the Smart Grid for Cisco , and she’ll be speaking at our GreenBeat conference next month , where we’ll be discussing the most disruptive technologies bringing change to the old carbon-based grid system. Below is a Q&A I just had with her over the phone. The Smart Grid is the more efficient electrical grid that the nation is moving toward, one that relies on more renewable energy and emits less carbon into the atmos

A Florida-based algae-biodiesel company has found an international market for a by-product of its clean energy business. This press release from PetroAlgae Inc. says it has has received official notice that the protein from PetroAlgae’s proprietary micro-crop production technology has successfully passed testing by the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture and is suitable for use in animal feed: Furthermore, the protein has been cleared for importation as a raw material to be used as an ingr

Students across the country recently had a chance to have a blast with biofuels. The 4-H National Youth Science Day taught kids some of the basics of the green fuels. This story from KSFX-TV in Springfield, Missouri says a University of Missouri chemistry lab played host to one such group of students looking to the future of renewable energy: With a little sugar, water, yeast, and a balloon, kids watched how yeast breaks down sugars. The resulting reaction release is a biofuel, a m

Shutterstock1.) In Texas, Exxon battles family over oil wells.2.) Could water scarcity cause international conflict?3.) On farms, 20-somethings make a fresh start.4.) The White House ramps up pressure for a climate bill.5.) A short list of behavioral changes that may limit greenhouse gases.

Department of Energy : Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system. The end result will promote energy-saving choices for consumers, increase efficiency, and foster the growth of renewable energy

“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” To most of us, old bicycle parts are mostly good for DIY furniture projects if they’re good for anything, and windmills are best designed by people with advanced degrees. When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba, of Masitala Village in Wimbe, Malawi, stumbled acro… Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original:  The World’s DIY Hero: An Interview With William Kamkwamba, Windmill Wunderkind

The Department of Energy requests $165 million for climate science and more than $1 billion for climate change technology R&D intended to increase renewable energy generation, advance energy efficiency, and modernize the electricity grid. DOE seeks to further three new initiatives: Energy Innovation Hubs, Energy Frontier Research Centers, and the Advance Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The U.S. Global Change Research Program, which coordinates and integrates research over 1

Are the nation’s fiscal, economic, military, political and social challenges setting us up for a Military Coup? Will the U.S. Military Industrial Complex, acting through our Joint Chiefs of Staff or some other high-level corps of U.S. Military officers, and supported by a variety of angry business leaders and extreme conservatives be so resentful of any changes to our national priorities that they would encourage a complete removal of our elected civilian federal government, save the Department