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Microsoft Creates Smart Campus with Sensors
“Give me a little data and I’ll tell you a little. Give me a lot of data and I’ll save the world,” says Darrell Smith, who heads Facilities and Energy for Microsoft. To transform Microsoft’s buildings into a cohesive ”smart campus,” Smith was among those who realized some 30,000 sensors had been installed by various vendors over the years - it [...]
Dubai: Building A Green City
Though the burgeoning city-state of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates may be many wondrous things, a haven for green development and sustainability has not been one of them. In almost the blink of an eye Dubai has evolved from a small brown desert port into a glistening jungle of glass and steel skyscrapers rising [...]
L.A Dreaming? 20% Rooftop Solar By 2020
With sweeping views of LA’s ample solar friendly rooftop space, elected officials, business, health and environmental groups assembled on the top floor of LA City Hall to launch an unprecedented solar campaign. The goal? To get 20% of LA’s power from rooftop solar by 2020. This week’s press announcement highlighted a new report called Solar in the Southland, [...]
In Focus: Battery University
Energy storage could become big business in the US, but emerging businesses can’t find people with the necessary skills, so San Jose State University is starting Battery University this summer. About 100 local experts are composing the curriculum, which will focus on developing cost-effective technologies for electric cars, renewable energy, smartphones and laptops, says a blog in the NY Times. [...]
Denmark Reaches 2020 Solar Goal Ahead of Schedule
Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the country is adapting solar technology at a much quicker rate than anticipated. This year, interest in solar technology has soared: “the solar cell capacity will be a hundred times bigger this year compared with 2010.” Every month, another 36 MW of solar capacity is added to the grid [...]
Crowdfunding A Solar Project
We have enough solar resources in the United States to power the whole country many times over. And yet, most of us are still not getting our power from the sun. Even with leases making solar affordable for more people, many others are still left out of the equation — including low-income families, renters, and [...]
Los Angeles Plans Cleantech Complex
A developer plans to turn a former school bus manufacturing plant in downtown Los Angeles into a cleantech industrial park. The CleanTech Manufacturing Center is being built on speculation, hoping companies like solar, wind and electric vehicle equipment manufacturers will want to rent space there. Developer Trammell Crow Co. is spending $40 million for the cleantech campus - three large [...]
Can Japan Become Nuclear Free by the 2030s?
Japan is backpedeling on its historic commitment to phase out all nuclear plants by the 2030s, made just a week earlier – it’s new target is 2040 … maybe. Last week, the cabinet approved the new energy policy, but the 2030s target was missing. The change is the result of industry lobbying, which expressed fears of damage [...]
Taiwan Stadium Goes Solar
One industry that’s been making great strides on sustainability in recent years is the sports industry. We’ve been treated to an increasing number of stadiums that are net-zero energy, producing more energy from solar and wind than the stadium needs. Here’s the incredible Kaohsiung World Stadium in Taiwan, which opened in 2009. The largest stadium in the country [...]