Tag Archives: clean
China’s Clean Energy Push
Fresh from releasing “Out of the Running?,” a report that compares clean energy investments in China, Germany, and Spain, senior staff including KateGordon and JulianWong, from the Center for American Progress brought a select groupof Senate staffers to visit China in April to meet with policymakers,academics, and companies to better understand China’s clean energyeconomic development [...]
Obama: Rising to the Clean Energy Challenge
In his first Oval Office address to the nation on Tuesday,President Obama laid out the steps needed to bring about our country’snext great industry. For starters, America has to regain its economiccompetitiveness with respect to our investment in clean energytechnologies. Last year, China surpassed us in this space by an almost two-to-one margin. And in [...]
CPV Solar Cells for New Clean Energy Frontier
Improving the efficiencyof solar cells is critical for increased deployment and the subsequentreduction of greenhouse gas emissions, andcompanies and research institutions all over the globe are involved inthis endeavor. This issue has become even more urgent as countries seekclean alternative energy sources in thewake of numerous lethal and environmental disasters in the U.S. and China associated [...]
America Needs to COMPETE in the Clean Tech Race
Although America once led the global race in clean tech innovationand investment, our country has been slipping behind the rest of theworld for quite some time. Last year, China surpassed the U.S. in cleanenergy investment by an almost two-to-one margin, according to a recent report from The PewCharitable Trusts. The other “Rising Tigers” in Asia [...]
President Obama Embraces A Clean Energy Future
Despite the ongoing tragedy in the Gulf, there is still a glimmer of hope to be found amid the devastating oil spill: real attention is finally being paid to the need for a clean energy transition, and at the highest levels of government no less. In a speech delivered at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh [...]
Clean Tech Game Changers
Would you believe that the largest threat facing today’s word isthe energy crisis? And that energy, right up there with food, water and shelter, ranks among the top necessities for human existence? In aForbes.com article posted today, the energy crisis is credited with opening the door for a variety of alternative energy sources andcompanies, such as [...]
Bush and Obama Push Clean Energy Technology
No this wasn’t a joint press conferencebringing together both the Republican and Democratic parties to call for a rapid deployment of clean energy technology in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill. But today sees both the current US president Barack Obama and formerpresident George W. Bush both saying in their own [...]
China to Get New Clean Energy Hub in Dezhou
China is aiming to provide a clean-technology answer to California’s Silicon Valley by developing a $740 million facility will be developedoutside Dezhou, China and will be the clean energy hub of the country.The development will be anchored by Himin Solar Energy Group and willprovide space for 100 companies in total. The development will feature spawned [...]
Top 10 Boston Clean Tech Companies Killing It on Twitter
Recently, I’ve been getting asked more and more who and whatcompanies to follow on twitter. So, I’ve decided to put together somelists. BEWARE, if you’re not familiar with twitter you may have no idea what I’m talking about. Today, I did my first #FollowFriday for my favorite green peoplearound Boston. It went something like this: [...]