While racing towards Los Angeles from Hawaii on his yacht, Charles Moore decided to stray from the typical route and take what he thought would be an easy shortcut through the North Pacific gyre. Expecting to see nothing by calm, shimmering water in one of the most secluded regions of the ocean, Moore was shocked [...]

With the hunt for powerful energy generation innovations in full swing, there’s been some investment moving into the ocean. Let’s face it, waves and currents aren’t likely to stop anytime soon.
SRI researchers have cleverly applied a biological muscle technology to the guts of a wave generating buoy. The researchers recently demonstrated the buoy in Santa [...]

While decentralized sources of power, such as harnessing solar and wind energy to generate electricity, are well understood opportunities, there are additional fundamental areas where we are moving inexorably towards an infrastructure where being on the grid is an option, not a necessity. A recently announced new waste-to-energy system that turns trash into clean energy [...]

A few innovative people are motivated by ideas that will improve their communities, but the one thing that usually stands in their way is funding. Everything costs money.

Tomorrow’s sustainable future
is REEEP’s challenge today
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This is where Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) comes in. This unique organization is backed by governments, banks, NGO’s and [...]

Something we don’t hear often enough amidst this era’s turbulent convergence of cultures and challenging disruptions of technology is this: Humanity is destined within a tantalizingly few decades to achieve a level of prosperity that can scarcely be imagined today. The ongoing conflicts of nations, continued destruction of the environment, heartbreaking poverty, ruthless injustice – [...]