We are very close to learning whether or not what we’ve been waiting for all these years has finally come true:  Cheap abundant energy via photovoltaics.  What was required was a way to manufacture them for, say, one-tenth the current costs, and from what representatives of several photovoltaic manufacturers are telling us, that day has [...]

We have just published a feature story “Saving Endangered Species” covering the courageous activities of the organization WildAid, a San Francisco-based organization that prosecutes people who traffic in wild animal parts.  WildAid also works to raise public consciousness, especially in Asia, in an attempt to reduce demand for wild animal parts.
There are a few issues [...]

Forests are considered sacred by most environmentalists.  Over the past twelve years we’ve reported on deforestation and reforestation, and there has always been a consistent refrain from environmentalists:  Monocultures are not forests.  This point of view, while debateable, is one we basically agree with.
So why are environmentalists relatively silent on the potential problems with biofuel plantations?

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One of the more interesting propositions to face California’s voters in November 2006 is Proposition 87, which would tax in-state oil producers to fund alternative energy projects.  Proponents of this bill air a television commercial, narrated by Bill Clinton, where the Brazilian ethanol industry is referenced.  The closing message is “If Brazil can do it, so can California.”
This is [...]

That would be the proper title for the story just released today by Reuters, based on recent statements from NASA scientists.  But the title, perhaps predictably, was “Greenland Ice Sheet Shrinking Fast.”
 
Once again, let’s do the math, based on NASA’s own data, as reported in this story:  During the years 2003, 2004 and 2005, NASA [...]

Nobody knows for sure how low conventional manufacturing costs are for photovoltaics, since at the wholesale price of $4.00 per watt they are being sold, everywhere, as fast as they can be made.  Demand has exceeded supply for photovoltaics for several years, and even with incremental decreases in cost and increases in supply, this will continue.
But the [...]

One might assume that after nearly 12 years of publishing strategic information about green technology and environmental issues we would know everyone, but it’s a bigger world than that.  Today we found www.eco-web.com and want to report this as perhaps the best organized and current compilation of green technology companies we’ve ever seen.
Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Eco-Web’s so-called [...]