By Chris de Morsella on June 27, 2011 agribusiness , algal biofuel , Algenol , Amyris , Amyris Brazil , anti-malarial , ARCH Venture Partners , Artemisinin , Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology , Battery Ventures , Berkely , Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Bill Gates , biocatalyst , biochemical , biodiesel , biofuel , biomass , bioprocessing , bioreactor , Biotechonomy , BlackRock , Bob Johnsen , Bonita Springs , BP , Brazil , Burrill & Co. , Butamax , butanol , CA , California , Caltech , Cambridge , Canada , carbon capture , carbon dioxide , Catalyst , catalytic enzyme , CBP , cellulose , cellulosic biofuel , cellulosic ethanol , Chevron , chris de morsella , cleantech , CO , Codexis , Colorado , Columbus , Consolidated Bioprocessing , corn stalks , Craig Venter , David Berry , David Kiernan , Department of Energy , diesel , diesel fuel , directed evolution , DNA , DNA shuffling , DOE , Dow Chemical , Draper Fisher Juvetson , E. coli , Emeryville , energy company , engineered microbe , engineered microorganism , Englewood , environmental , enzyme cocktail , ethanol , Exxon , fatty lipids , fermentation , FL , Flagship Ventures , Florida , Freeport , Frontier Renewable Resources , Genencor , Gevo , green chemicals , green chemistry , green economy , Hamilton Smith , Iogen , isobutanol , Jack Newman , Jason Pyle , jatropha , jet fuel , John Melo , Joule Unlimited , Juan Enriquez , Khosla Ventures , Kleiner Perkins , La Jolla , Las Cruces , Lea County , Leander , Lebanon , Lee County , Lightspeed Ventures , Linde Group , LS9 , Luna County , MA , malaria , Marlborough , Mascoma , Massachusets , Maxygen , Meteor Group , MI , Michigan , microbe , microbial enhanced hydrocarbon recovery , microbial organism , microorganism , municipal solid waste , Neil Renninger , New Hampshire , New Mexico , New York , NH , NM , non-food biofuel , nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactant , Noubar Afeyan , NY , Palo Alto , Paul Woods , petrochemical infrastructure , petroleum , pharmaceutical , pharmaceutical precursor , photobioreactor , photosynthesis , Plenus , Praj Industries , Procter and Gamble , Qteros , Raizen , recombinant DNA , Redfield Energy , Redwood City , renewable energy , renewable specialty chemicals , Rochester , San Diego , Sapphire Energy , SD , Shell , Solazyme , South Dakota , South San Francisco , sugar cane , surfactant , sustainability , sustainable , sustainable chemicals , switchgrass , synthetic biofuel , synthetic biology , synthetic enzyme , Synthetic Genomics , Texas , transportation fuel , TX , Unilever , University of California , Valero oil , Venrock , Virgin Green Fund , waste water treatment , Wellcome Trust , Wilmar International , woodchips , woody biomass , Wyman Lynd , yeast
A detailed review of 12 U.S. based synthetic biology, biofuel & biochemical companies that are developing third and fourth generation biofuels, bioindustrial & household chemical, and food additive products; using synthetic biology to produce engineered microorganisms and specialty enzymatic products. Each company is examined in turn, looking at its financials and the uniqueness and strength of its processes and technology as well as at any important partnerships or alliances that have been formed.
By Yale Environment 360 on December 6, 2010 Abengoa Solar , Alstom , ALTe , American Electric Power , Arizona , Auburn Hills , big solar arrays , Bloomberg New Energy Finance , California , carbon capture and storage , carbon dioxide , carbon dioxide emissions , carbon emissions , carbon price , carbon risks , Carbon War Room , carbon-tracking software , Carbonnetworks , CCS , Chief Sustainability Officer , China , Clean Air Act , Clean Edge , Clean tech , cleantech , climate bill , climate legislation , coal plants , Congress , DuPont , energy efficiency , enhanced oil recovery , ENXSuite , EPA , Europe , Frank Alix , Fred Morse , GlassPoint Solar , GTM Research , Jigar Shah , John Carey , John Cohen , John O’Donnell , John Thomas , Linda Fisher , Michael Meehan , Michael Morris , Michigan , natural gasm , nuclear power plants , plug-in gas-electric powertrain , power plants , Powerspan , PSEG , Ralph Izzo , renewable energy , renewable power , Ron Pernick , solar steam generators , solar thermal plants , U.S. Energy Department , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , unEdison , venture capital investment
While the collapse of climate legislation in Congress was a setback for some green businesses, many others are moving ahead with projects to develop renewable energy. One major reason: The clean-tech sector is rapidly growing worldwide, and U.S. companies don’t want to be left behind.
By Nicholas Varilone on March 20, 2010 Alice Yates , cap and dividend , cap and trade system , Carl Levin , Chris Adamo , Clean Air Act , Debbie Stabenow , environmental economics , EPA , greenhouse gas emissions , H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 , Michigan , regional disparities , renewable energy technologies , Senator Levin , Senator Stabenow , sequestering carbon dioxide , solar panels , The 48C: Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit , wind turbines
On February 23, 2010 I was privileged enough to be a part of a conference call that took place between students from college campuses around Michigan and the environmental liaisons from Senator Stabenow and Senator Levin’s office. The conference call took place to discuss important environmental concerns from students all over Michigan, and what their policy makers are doing to move Michigan’s economy forward. My environmental economics class was able to draft a series of questions for the senators offices and listen to the senators position’s on these issues.
By Chris de Morsella on December 8, 2009 amorphous silicon , Arizona , Auburn Hills , AZ , Barcelona , CA , cadmium-telluride , California , China , Cooperation Framework Agreement , Deval Patrick , Devens , Energy Conversion Devices , Evergreen Solar , First Solar , Inner Mongolia , MA , Marlboro , Massachusetts , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , MI , Michigan , MIT , Philippines , photovoltaic , polysilicon , ProLogis Park Sant Boi , PV , Recurrent Energy , Rochester Hills , S&P 500 , San Francisco , San Jose , solar cell , solar energy , solar module , solar power , Spain , Stanford Ovshinsky , SunPower , Tellurium , Tempe , Thin Film , thin-film triple junction , Uni-Solar , United Solar Ovonic , wafer manufacturing , Wuhan
In this survey we are looking at the large US headquartered solar PV manufacturers with a view to examine how they are doing in this difficult economic climate. As basically anyone knows, who has not been cloistered away meditating in some cave, 2009 has been a very tough year for pretty much everyone.
By Chris de Morsella on October 26, 2009 Arizona , Arthur D. Little , AZ , CA , California , CareerBuilder , CO , Colorado , corporate social responsibility , corporate sustainability , CSR , CSR Jobs Report , CSR MBA , D.C. , distribution , District of Colombia , Ellen Weinreb CSR Recruiting , energy efficiency , environmental practices , environmental professionals , FL , Florida , GA , Georgia , Green Dream Jobs , Green Economy Post , Green Marketing , Green MBA , Green MBA Program Directory , green packaging , green workforce development , greenbiz , Hawaii , HI , IA , Illinois IL , IN , Indiana , Iowa , Jim Cassio , MA , Maine , Massachusetts , Master of Business Administration , ME , MI , Michigan , Minnesota , MN , NC , Net Impact , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New York , NH , NJ , North Carolina , NY , OH , Ohio , Online Green MBA , OR , Oregon , PA , Pennsylvania , recent college graduate , reducing waste , sustainability professionals , sustainable business degree , sustainable practices , sustainable product development , sustainable production , sustainable supply chain , Tennessee , Texas , TN , triple bottom line , TX , UT , Utah , Vermont , VT , WA , Washington , Washington D.C. , WI , Wisconsin
Are you a recent graduate discovering how difficult the current market is, unemployed, worried you might soon lose your job or just feel that your career seems stuck in place? Are you thinking that now may be the best time to re-tool your career? Going for a green MBA, now, while the job market is stagnant may be a smart move; both for recent graduates, currently unemployed (or underemployed) professionals as well as for those who want to forge a path into a career in corporate sustainability. But what is a Green MBA, why is it important and what schools are offering them? These are the questions this post delves into.
By Tracey de Morsella on September 1, 2009 advanced vehicle technologies , alternative fuel , American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , and Egg Harbor Township , and HEV Vehicles and Fueling Stations Initiative , Atlantic City , Austin , Autogas refueling stations in the following major metropolitan areas: Atlanta , Baton Rouge , biodiesel , biofuels , biogas , Camden , Chicago , City of Chicago , Clean Cities program , clean energy , Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative , Clean Fuels Ohio’s Ohio Advanced Transportation Partnership , Clean School Bus/Vehicle Incentive & Green Jobs Outreach Program , CNG , CNG dump trucks , compressed natural gas fueling stations , compressed natural gas vehicles , Dallas , Dallas-Fort Worth , DeKalb County’s DeKalb County/Metropolitan Atlanta Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicle Project , Denver , Department of Energy , Department of Environment’s Chicago Area Alternative Fuels Deployment Project , DOE , electric vehicles , electricity , energy efficient vehicles , energy security , ethanol , EV , flex-fuel vehicles , garbage trucks , Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition’s Long Island Regional Energy Collaborative Promoting a Green Economy through Clean Alternatives , Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition , green transportation , Houston , hybrid school buses , hybrid technologies , hybrid truck , hybrids , hydraulic hybrids , Inc.’s Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project , Indianapolis , Kansas City , Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition’s Hybrid Electric School Buses Provide New Horsepower for Kentucky , Lake Charles , landfill gas , LFG , local governments , Los Angeles , LPG , Maryland Energy Administration’s Maryland Hybrid Truck Goods Movement , Metropolitan Energy Information Center’s Midwest Region Alternative Fuels Project , Michigan , Minerals and Energy’s Paving the Way with Propane: The AutoGas Corridor Development Program , Nassau , natural gas , New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition’s New Jersey Compressed Natural Gas Refuse Trucks , New Orleans , New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)’s Statewide Alternative Fuel Vehicle Program for CNG , Newark , North Carolina , North Central Texas Council of Governments’ North Central Texas Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology , NYSERDA , OATP , Oklahoma City , Orlando , petroleum , petroleum consumption , Phoenix , plug-in electric hybrids , pollution , propane , Puget Sound Clean Air Agency’s Puget Sound Clean Cities Petroleum Reduction Project , Railroad Commission of Texas’ Texas Propane Fleet Pilot Program , refueling infrastructure , refueling locations , refuse collection vehicles , renewable gas , Sacramento , San Antonio , San Bernardino , San Bernardino Associated Governments’ J.B. Hunt LNG Truck Project: Made in America Initiative , San Diego , SCAQMD , Seattle , Secretary Chu , Shuttle Buses and Infrastructure , SOuth Carolina , South Coast Air Quality Management District’s (SCAQMD) Heavy-Duty Natural Gas Drayage Truck Replacement Initiative , South Coast Air Quality Management District’s UPS Ontario-Las Vegas LNG Corridor Expansion Project , South Gate , South Los Angeles , Southern CA Association of Governments Clean Cities Coalition’s Expanding California’s E85 Ethanol Fueling Infrastructure , Southern California , Southern California Association of Governments Clean Cities Coalition , St. Louis , state governments , State of Indiana’s: Central Indiana Clean Cities Alliance Comprehensive Alternative Fuels Implementation Plan , State of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program , Steven Chu , Suffolk , Texas State Technical College’s Development of a National Liquid Propane (Autogas) Refueling Network , The Treasure Valley Clean Cities Coalition’s Idaho Petroleum Reduction Leadership Project , transportation authorities , Trenton , Triangle J Council of Governments’ Carolinas Blue Skies & Green Jobs Initiative , University of Michigan , Utah Clean Cities Coalition’s Clean Cities Transportation Sector Petroleum Reduction Technologies Program , Virginia Department of Mines
Last week, Secretary Chu announcen nearly $300 million in Clean Cities grants to support clean fuels, vehicles, and infrastructure development. The projects are designed to create jobs, limit pollution, and reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil.
By Tracey de Morsella on May 20, 2009 Allison Hemming , cleantech , Colorado , Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Environmental Defense Fund interactive map , Florida , green collar , green jobs , greentech , Hired Guns , Iowa , Maryland. , Michigan , Nebraska , Nevada , New York , Ohio , Oregon , Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , relocate , Rendell , Rustbelt , stimulus , Stimulus Watch , Wisconsin , Work it
How to Find a Job In This Crap Economy. Allison Hemming, author of Work it! How to Get Ahead, Save your Ass and Land a Job in any Economy!. and owner of Hired Guns, a talent agency that places creative professionals in high profile positions recently gave some career advice for Flavorwire, How to Find a Job In This Crap Economy [Ask an Expert]. She gave lots of great advice. However, the tip she provided that will stand out for people looking to making a move to a green career covers the issue of relocating to find working in a green field.
By Chris de Morsella on May 13, 2009 Bay Windpower , co-generation , Donald L. Carcieri , Energias de Portugal , Federal Mineral Management Service , Force 5 hurricane , Galveston TX , Garden State Offshore Energy , Grays Harbor Ocean Energy Company , Great Lakes , GSOE , Gulf Coast environmentalist , Gulf of Mexico , Harold Schoeffler , Herman Schellstede , Hoboken NJ , Hydro Green Energy , jacket foundation , Mackinaw City , Mackinaw Power , Michigan , Mid Atlantic , mobile jack-up platform , monopole foundation , New England , New Jersey , New Jersey Board of Public Utilities , offshore oil & gas industry , offshore oil and gas technology , offshore renewable energy , offshore wind energy sector , offshore wind farms , offshore wind power , Oscillating Water Column wave energy , Principle Power , PSEG Global , PSEG Renewable Generation , Quonset , renewable energy , Rhode Island , Seattle , Texas Gulf Coast West coast , Texas. Deepwater Wind , Washington , wave energy , wind energy sector , wind energy startup , Wind Energy Systems Technology Group , wind turbines , wind-hydrokinetic ocean current power , WindFloat
Recently there has been a lot of news about offshore wind power. The US government has released its long awaited federal regulations governing offshore wind farms, boosting the pace of activity in this sector and propelling it into the nations awareness and media spotlight (at least for a fortnight). As part of covering developments in this wind energy sector we are profiling some of the promising startups in the offshore wind energy sector.
By Chris de Morsella on May 6, 2009 Actinides , Adaptive Materials , advanced catalysis , advanced energy storage , advanced nuclear energy systems , advanced nuclear systems , Albuquerque , Alex Zunger , American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , Amherst , Ann Arbor , ANSER , Argonne IL , Argonne National Laboratory , Arizona , Arizona State University , Armstrong Neal , atomic scale , Atomic Scale Design , Atomic-Level Synthesis , Austin , Bartosz Grzybowski , Baton Rouge , Berend Smit , Berkeley , Berkeley CA , bio-polymers , biofuels , biomass , Brent Gunnoe , brookhaven National Laboratory , C3Bio , California , California Institute of Technology , Cambridge , carbon capture , carbon sequestration , carbon-neutral energy , Carnegie Institute of Washington , Chapel Hill , Charlottesville , Chas , Christopher Marshall , CIS:HSEM , CITFAM , Clare P. Grey , Clean Energy Technologies , coal , College Park , Colorado , Columbia , Columbia University , combustion Science , Computational Catalysis , Cornell University , Danforth Plant Science Center , Daniel Cosgrove , David Wesolowski , Deleware , Department of Energy , Dieter Wolf , Dionisios Vlachos , DOE , Donald DePaolo , Donald Morelli , East Lansing , efficient combustion , EFRC , Efree , electrical energy storage , electricity storage , electrode components , emergent Superconductivity , Emerging Materials , Energy Conversion , energy economy , energy efficiency , Energy Frontier Research Center , Evsnston , excitonics , fossil fuels , Fritz Prinz , Gang Chen , Gary A. Pope , Gary Rubloff , Gas Separations , General Electric Global Research , Geologic CO2 , geological storage of carbon dioxide , Golden CO , greenhouse gases , Grigorii Soloveichik , Gust J. Devens , Harry Atwater , Hector Abruna , Ho-Kwang Mao , hung K. Law , hybrid inorganic-organic materials , Hybrid Solar-Electric Materials , hydrocarbon gases , hydrogen , IACT , Idaho , Idaho Falls ID , Idaho National Laboratory , Illanois , Indiana , Ithaca , J.C. Davis , James Spivey , James Yardley , Jerry Simmons , John Bowers , Kenneth Reifsnider , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Light-Material Interactions , lignocellulose Pennsylvania State University , Los Alamos , Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Angeles , Louisiana State University , Malcolm Stocks , Marc Baldo , Maryland. , Massachusets , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , materials sciences , Maureen McCann , Michael Nastasi , Michael Thackeray , Michael Wasielewski , Michigan , Michigan State University , Missouri , MIT , molecular catalysts , Molecularly Assembly , Morris Bullock , nanoparticles , Nanoscale , nanoscale architectures , nanoscale material architectures , Nanostructuring , National Renewable Energy Laboratory , natural photosynthesis , New Jersey , New Mexico , New York , Newark DE , Niskayuna , NOCESC , North Carolina , Northwestern University Evanston IL , Nuclear Fuel , Oak Ridge , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Office of Science , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , Pasadena , Paul Barbara , Paul Daniel Dapkus , Peter C. Burns , Peter Green , Photovoltaics , plutonium , predictive combustion , predictive computational models , president obama , Princeton , Princeton University , Purdue University , renewable energy , Richard Sayre , Richland , Robert Blankenship , S3TEC CENTER , Sandia National Laboratories , Santa Barbara , Seamus , SECCM , Secretary of Energy Steven Chu , self-assembled polymer materials , solar energy , Solar Fuel , solid state lighting , SOuth Carolina , St. Louis , Stanford CA , Stanford University , State University of New York , Steven Chu , Stony Brook , superconductivity , Tempe AZ , Tennessee , Texas , thin films , Thomas Meyer , Tuscon , UCLA , UCSB , United States , University of Arizona , University of California , University of Delaware , University of Maryland , University of Massachusetts , University of Michigan , University of North Carolina , University of Notre Dame , University of South Carolina , University of Southern California , University of Texas , University of Virginia , Upton NY , uranium , USC , Victor Klimov , Vidvuds Ozolins , Virginia , Washington , Washington D.C. , Washington University , West Lafayette , White House
The White House announced that the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science will invest $777 million in Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) over the next five years. In a national effort to accelerate scientific advances in critical areas of the new energy economy the United States Department of Energy (DOE) will establish 46 new multi-million dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (or EFRCs) across the nation.