Technology
The Hottest Jobs in Cleantech and Where to Find Them
Solar power, biofuels and biomaterials continue to hold the best cleantech job opportunities in the U.S. with the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley again topping the list of 15 metro areas in the country with the greatest job activity, according to a new study from Clean Edge. Read More
IBM, Schneider Electric Team Up to Make Buildings Smarter
IBM and Schneider Electric are joining forces to provide new smarter buildings solutions that combine robust data collection and powerful analytics, enabling owners to better manage energy use at their facilities and obtain greater savings. The partnership was one several announcements about new offerings, software, services and tools from IBM in its Smarter Planet campaign. Read More
Schneider Electric: Transitioning from Transistors to Smart Grids
The 170-year-old company is in the midst of a rejuvenation, throwing its tools and experience behind a holistic energy management platform aimed at reducing energy use across the enterprise. Read More
IBM's New Data Center Brings Home the Gold
IBM chose an existing building to house what would become the company's most technologically advanced green data center. Re-use of the building, along with a slew of energy- and water-saving measures, helped land the data center a LEED Gold certification. Read More
Yahoo Spreads its Wings with 'Chicken Coop' Data Center
The company's next-generation facility is modeled after a chicken coop design to maximize its ability to use free outside-air cooling. Read More
Super-Light, 100 MPG Car Takes $5M X Prize
The biggest winner in the $10-million Automotive X PRIZE competition is not an electric car, but a car that weighs less than 1,000 pounds and is powered by an internal combustion engine. Read More
GM's $5M Jumpstart for Bright Automotive
Bright Automotive, spun off from Rocky Mountain Institute in 2008, now has bragging rights as the first investment of GM Ventures, LLC. The $5 million investment by the auto giant couldn’t have come at a better time, providing a solid shot in the arm to drive the company’s 100-mpg plug-in hybrid electric fleet vehicle, the IDEA, into mass production. Read More
A Holistic Approach to Energy Efficiency in Datacenters
This white paper from Microsoft lays out some unconventional steps companies can take to make their data centers more efficient and greener. Read More
The Green Transition Scoreboard
Where did the more than $1.6 trillion in investments since 2007 in clean technologies and the green economy go? Read More
HP's Flexible 'Butterfly' Data Center Prefabbed to Save Costs
The company's new modular facility is targeted at companies' rapidly growing data storage and management needs, and is designed to cut energy and cooling costs significantly. Read More