The Weekly: Oil Rigs, Electric Cars, and Google’s Curious Investment

This week: Are oil rigs a threatened species? Also, rain falls on the electric-car parade, and Google makes a curious investment. […]

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May 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Clean Energy, Environment, Matter Network, The Weekly, wind energy | One comment

The Weekly: UPS Hates Styrofoam, Prius Plans a Minivan

A roundup of the week’s news in sustainability and clean tech. […]

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April 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environment, Matter Network, The Weekly | Leave a comment

The Weekly: Obama Drills, the Grid Lobby Powers Up, ConAgra Sees the Light

Top News: This week, President Obama startled both his allies and critics with a plan to permit drilling for oil off the Southern Atlantic states and in the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile the Secret Service, in a stroke of karmic justice, denied the president’s request for a hybrid limo. […]

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April 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environment, Matter Network, The Weekly | Leave a comment

Wisconsin Badgers Toward Cleaner Energy

CO2 is removed in the plant's two tall silvery columns (top).

Today, as part of the Society of Environmental Journalists annual meeting, I hopped a bus and toured three of Wisconsin’s leading renewable-energy projects. Heartened as I was to see innovation in action, I could also tell we’re still in Mile One […]

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October 8th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Climate Change, Environment | 2 comments