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You may already now that Sears Tower is getting a huge energy retrofit costing $350 million because it’s got a lot of media attention. Still, it’s really good to see old office towers see the benefit of spending a lot of money on increasing efficiency of their buildings.
Operators of the nearly 36-year-old, 110-story building say [...]

Business Week has a short editorial on why collaboration is needed for future sustainable economic growth. Essentially, in order to make the future a better place we ought to share our knowledge – sounds good to me!
“The key to our prosperity in the 21st century lies in our ability to nurture our intellectual capital in [...]

Blue chip companies in Germany are looking at using solar energy to power the European markets, the really neat thing is that all the solar energy stations will be in northern Africa. This will help the EU become more efficient with power generation and help the northern African countries with more revenue.
The energy potential [...]

Wired is running an article that points out the outstanding growth of green jobs in the USA and how they already employ 770,000 Americans. Green jobs have grown 250% since 1998.
The report differs from government projections or most industry association estimates in that it counts individual jobs, not entire industries. In other words, only the [...]

Here’s a talk from 2003 that examines the efficiency of using concentrated solar energy to run a stirling engine. This is a super-efficient way to produce energy.

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Pumping water into filtrations plants and reservoirs is not really an exciting topic, except when someone invents something that’s so simple that it seems that it should exist. A British inventor has created a pump that uses only wave power that is a self-cleaning device that essentially pumps water for free.
Dubbed ‘Searaser’, it [...]