Silicon Valley seeks a cure for health care
Alameda Times-Star Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:43 AM PDT
Much like the cleantech firms that have scored Department of Energy grants and loan guarantees, many health-sector companies hope to tap into a new $10 billion innovation fund created by the law to test and promote technologies and ideas that can improve health care while reducing its cost. |
Animated Infographic: Which Countries Spend the Most on Renewable Energy?
GOOD Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:33 AM PDT
In a world of dwindling traditional energy resources, countries are starting to invest in more sustainable alternatives. Here are the countries that are spending the most on renewable energy , along with how much of it they currently produce, and what percent of their total energy output that represents. A collaboration between GOOD and OPEN , animated for video by Dorian Orange . |
The energy boom of yesteryear
Morning Times Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:31 AM PDT
WAVERLY â€" The Barclay Mountain coal boom of the late 1800s is reminiscent of today’s natural gas development by the way it had expanded communities with housing, invigorated transportation, and extracted natural resources from the ground, according to Bradford County Historical Society Curator Matt Carl. |
Chesapeake Energy donations $46K to conservation district
Morning Times Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:31 AM PDT
TOWANDA â€" Chesapeake Energy Corporation recently donated $46,000 to the Bradford County Conservation District to ensure the realization of six watershed projects throughout the county. |
Talisman Energy fined by DEP over fluid spill
Morning Times Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:30 AM PDT
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined Talisman Energy USA Inc. of Horseheads $15,506 for a spill of used natural gas drilling fluids last November at its Klein gas well pad in Armenia Township that polluted a small, unnamed waterway. |
New Xcel site raises old concerns
Summit Daily News Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:18 AM PDT
SILVERTHORNE â€" No one wants to look at an electric distribution substation, but everyone wants the lights to turn on when a switch is flipped. Xcel Energy and residents in and around Silverthorne have been grappling with those competing realities for 13 years now. |
Dedicate ‘Inception’ to Abdul Kalam: Siva
IndiaGlitz Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:14 AM PDT
Hardly could one find ‘Mirchi’ Siva in a serious mood. The ‘Chennai 600028’ and ‘Thamizh Padam’ actor is full of energy all the time and sees things from a different view point, quite like the films he has acted in so far..... |
Students moving on up
Columbia Daily Tribune Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:13 AM PDT
The microfiber couches, slam-proof kitchen drawers and brand-new energy efficient appliances, including a washer, dryer and dishwasher, make you feel like you’re in the swanky digs of some well-paid working stiff. |
Baird touts renewable energy for green-job creation
The Columbian Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:05 AM PDT
U.S. Rep. Brian Baird visited Oregon Iron Works in Vancouver on Friday to talk about green job creation and his proposed wave-energy legislation. The Clackamas, Ore.-based company, which operates a fabrication plant on the Columbia River-front in Vancouver, is finishing construction on the first of 10 prototype wave-energy buoys it’s building for New Jersey-based Ocean Power Technologies. When ... |
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