By John Addison (3/8/10)Before I got behind the wheel of the Transit Connect Electric, I asked myself, Who is going to buy a battery-electric van of this size? Fleet managers of electric utilities, universities, and city delivery all came to mi... [more]

by Richard T. StuebiIt's axiomatic among the cleantech community that energy efficiency represents the cheapest/easiest way to address our energy and environmental challenges. Indeed, as illustrated by some analysis by McKinsey & Company, many energy... [more]

David NiebauerA new, innovative feed-in tariff for small-scale solar development is coming to California. Rather than setting a fixed price in an environment in which technology costs appear to be dropping, the California Public Utilities Commission... [more]

By John Addison (3/3/10 - original post at Clean Fleet Report)Energy, Water, and Fuel are three of the world's most pressing needs. Algal biofuel can have a major impact on all three observed Dr. Michael Webber in opening the recent American Associat... [more]

Recently, I made a small diversion from my walk to the office in San Francisco and took a ride in a Wheego. The Wheego was being showcased at Justin Herman Plaza right across from the Ferry Building not far from my office in the heart of the city'... [more]

by Richard T. StuebiFor as long as I can remember, Lake Erie -- and by extension, all of the Great Lakes of North America -- symbolized water pollution. Sure, it was much worse 40 years ago, when the Cuyahoga River in downtown Cleveland caught fire, ... [more]

In the midst of the debate over exactly what commitments will come out of the Copenhagen Accord follow-up discussions, and how a cap and trade system to incorporate those might work, we asked long time carbon trader Olivia Fussell, the CEO of Carbon ... [more]

Vermonters sent a message to President Obama and the nuclear industry today, said Greenpeace's Nuclear Policy Analyst Jim Riccio. The nuclear renaissance is dead on arrival. We can retire old, decrepit and leaking reactors like Vermont Yank... [more]

Just on the eve of the industry headliner San Francisco Cleantech Forum, Bloom Energy finally blooms?Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) like the Bloom Box have been under development for a couple of decades, and many of the major firms both in the US and ... [more]

by Tom RooneySomething's gotten into those Gators.First, they won back to back championships in college basketball. Then they added a national football title to the mix, along with a Heisman trophy.Now the city surrounding the University of Florida i... [more]