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

If you are thinking about setting up solar power for your home, you would certainly want to know how to make a small solar panel to solar power your home. Nowadays with the advancement in technology and due to the widespread availability of the required raw materials more and more people are building their own solar panels rather than buying from the stores directly, as it can cost them an eye and a leg. However, exactly how much does solar power cost? That’s what we are going to have a look a

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

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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

It’s all about being Number 1 for search engine results, right? Wrong. In our rush and enthusiasm to jump in and optimize our own or our clients’ websites to achieve stellar ranking, we often forget the first, and most important step of all: business and marketing planning. The business and marketing planning process is not difficult, but it does take time, and that’s what most hurried-up cyber folks don?t want to hear. after all, things are moving so fast that if you don?t get off that dim

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Green building and green homes are terms that get bandied about pretty liberally these days. Quite often, what passes for green makes strides in one area while backtracking in another. If we’re really keen on going green these days, we’ll need to look beyond labels to find out if what we’re buying will truly benefit the environment. Read on for a run-down of the four biggest magnets for the “green home” label and some of the noxious realities that lurk within: Recycled Materials Recycled bu

“Pushing for Energy Legislation, Obama Takes On Critics” (NY Times headline)The issue: Renewable Energy PolicyThe speaker: President ObamaThe location: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLink to the news story in the New York Times- Click hereLink to transcript of Obama’s speech, as released by the White House- Click herePresident Obama’s speech at MIT in Boston covered an array of energy-related topics from harnessing wind, water and solar power to nuclear disarmament. Toward the end of his r