Some estimates say that cleantech will hit the $2 trillion mark by 2030. Shawn Lesser over at Sustainable World Capital looked at which countries are most likely to dominate the space. Read more >>

As the founder of Sustainable South Bronx, Carter greened her community…This year, she left to create the Majora Carter Group, a consulting firm focused on training people who need work to shepherd in new green technologies, transforming polluted sites into lush community spaces, and generally ensuring that everyone has a stake in the clean energy economy.

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Depending on how old and how large your TV is, your analog beast could be toting around eight pounds of lead and other heavy metals such as barium, cadmium and chromium (let’s assume four pounds per set is average). If you multiply all that lead by 100 million (the estimated number of analog TVs in current [...]

UPDATE 6/2: Read the full post on Alternet.. made it to the front page of Digg!

Maybe it’s because I’m still reeling over the news that Obama-appointed Lisa Jackson, new head of the EPA (that ‘P’ was supposed to stand for “protection” last time I checked) approved 42 permits to permanently obliterate several dozen mountain tops in Appalachia, [...]

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Cellulose is the most abundant naturally occurring molecule on the planet, a potentially limitless feed stock for the production of fuels like ethanol and hydrogen. But unless you are a termite, breaking down cellulose into fuel is next to impossible.
 
Because our cellulosic ethanol technology is so primitive, the biofuel industry currently relies on [...]

The curved tip feathers of an Eagle, the spiral of a conch shell, and the geometry of a rose. It sounds much more like the stuff of poetry rather than the basis for hi-tech engineering.
 
But with the advent of Biomimicry, a new field in engineering and product design, the study of nature’s intricate geometries [...]