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What Matters This Week: A Price for the Volt, but None for Carbon

BP axes Tony Hayward, McDonald’s cooks up some localwashing, NASA gives us a pop quiz…. and more of the latest sustainability news. […]

Help Me Interview the Navy’s Energy Czar

On Wednesday I have an interview at the Pentagon with Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, who is in charge of a hugely ambitious program to green the Navy. What should I ask her? […]

What Matters This Week: Solar’s Sugar Daddy, Terrafugia’s Flying Car

Terrafugia Flying Car

This is David’s summary of the week’s news for the Matter Network. To see the original, or post your comments, go here.

Solar’s Sugar Daddy: During his Saturday address, President Obama lavished an astonishing $2 billion in loan guarantees upon two solar companies. This upended the administration’s seedling strategy with renewables […]

What Matters This Week: Investors Love Tesla, Belkin Kills the Vampire

This week in cleantech and sustainability: Tesla issues a strong IPO, the Nissan Leaf gets a slew of new customers, and a new class of companies catches the eye of Goldman Sachs. […]

The Weekly: Deep Ignorance in the Deep Ocean

From this week’s summary: Our Gulf of knowledge about the oil spill, Indonesia’s rainforests held for ransom, big news from Nissan and Zipcar, and some welcome news for the food movement. […]

The Weekly: Oil Spreads, Forest Are Spared, and Green Ideas Sprout

News and solutions of the week from the world of cleantech and sustainability. […]

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. […]

The Weekly: Offshore Wind Wins, Offshore Oil Pollutes

Two Tales of Ocean Energy: Major events in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico laid out the U.S.’s energy choices in stark contrast. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill made landfall in Louisiana, a week after the offshore rig caught fire and sank. Oyster beds and wildlife are at risk, and the spill may grow to be one of the largest in U.S. history. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave the green light to the Cape Wind installation, the first offshore wind farm to be approved in U.S. waters. Its 130 turbines, projected to be up and running by 2012, will provide 75 percent of the electricity needed on Cape Cod and the islands of Nantucket Sound. […]

The Weekly: UPS Hates Styrofoam, Prius Plans a Minivan

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

The Weekly: Light Bulbs that Last Forever, Glaciers that Don’t, Solar Planes that Try

This week’s cleantech and sustainability news from around the Matter Network. […]

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