California Bolsters Reputation as Clean Transportation Vanguard

  GLOBE-Net, April 4, 2013 – California released its ambitious Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Action Plan last month, aimed at accelerating the market for ZEVs as part of the state’s long-term transportation strategy. The Action Plan will assist California in meeting...
Posted On 04 Apr 2013

Creating Tomorrow’s Clean Dream Home: ‘Soft’ But Resilient

  GLOBE-Net, March 27, 2013 –  Most consider the architecture of housing to be hard, fixed and permanent. But Sheila Kennedy, MIT professor of the practice of architecture and a founding principal of the architectural firm KVA Matx, has a different idea. Kennedy and her...
Posted On 27 Mar 2013

Revitalize Remote Communities With Clean Energy Technology

  GLOBE-Net, March 26, 2013 – Regardless of what tech industry you’re associated with-cleantech, IT, biotech, telecommunications-you’re aware of how valuable emerging global markets are. As a member of the United Nations Energy Access Practitioner Network, I am...
Posted On 26 Mar 2013

Siemens Canada Awarded 124 Wind Turbine Contract

Canada is the ninth largest producer of wind energy in the world with current installed capacity at roughly 6,500 MW.
Posted On 25 Mar 2013

Global Sulphur-dioxide Emissions Are Falling – A Good News Climate Story

  GLOBE-Net, March 25, 2013 – A new study confirms that global emissions of sulphur dioxide are declining, which is promising from the point of view of pollution, but a fact that could have implications for global warming. Global sulphur-dioxide emissions have...
Posted On 25 Mar 2013

New Report Answers Question – What is Business Case for Building Green?

  GLOBE-Net, March 22, 2013 – It’s a question asked often in the building industry, Does green building pay off, and if it does, for whom? A new comprehensive report released from the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) may have the answer to that question....
Posted On 22 Mar 2013

Reigniting Cleantech: Top 5 Reasons for a Post Bubble Party

Talk about the demise of cleantech seems silly to me.
Posted On 06 Mar 2013

Utilities Urged to Ramp Up Investments in Renewable Energy

  GLOBE-Net, February 27, 2013 – Major U.S. investors and pension funds have filed shareholder resolutions with five electric power utilities –Ameren, Cleco, DTE Energy, FirstEnergy, SCANA– urging them to increase deployment of renewable energy and energy...
Posted On 27 Feb 2013