Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. Sustainable transportation broke new boundaries by land and sea this week as Inhabitat reported that China launched the first 300 passenger bus and the world’s largest solar ship closed in [...]

The next time you get an order of miso soup, take a look at the seaweed lurking in your bowl. That seaweed could some day power your car. Scientists from Bio Architecture Lab, Inc (BAL) and the University of Washington in Seattle have found a way to turn seaweed into fuel with the use of genetically modified Escherichia coli, [...]

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. This week Inhabitat celebrated New Year’s Eve and the start of 2012 with a look at the biggest breaking green design stories from the past year… Tweet This Post

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. The past week saw several groundbreaking developments in climate news as the Chinese government said that it will control rainfall to generate 10 percent more precipitation by 2015… Tweet This [...]

A glut of photovoltaic solar panels on the market has caused solar cell manufacturer Solyndra to go under, with the company filing for bankruptcy and laying off 1,100 workers Thursday morning. The company makes cylindrical solar rooftop systems and is a now-controversial recipient of a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy — one of [...]

When they’re not busy carving handsets out of teak (or rockin’ out with their pupils), the folks over at NTT DoCoMo apparently focus their efforts on saving the environment. Next year, the Japanese provider will begin outfitting its expansive cellphone tower network with ten “green transmission stations,” to be powered by an artillery of biofuels, [...]

So there’s this brand-new trend working along side our attraction with the most desirable wire-less devices [1], and it’s the proper way to keep their electric batteries 100 %. With a lot of the new pads and tablet pcs, mobile phones, and notebooks the only general problem is the most easy alternative to have them [...]

Glori Energy, which specializes in extracting additional oil from existing oil wells, announced today that it has secured funding from Energy Technology Ventures. The terms of the funding were not disclosed… Tweet This Post

Home solar-panel leasing company SolarCity has raised $14.8 million of a planned $42 million funding round, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SolarCity leases residential solar panels for a 15-year period, handling all the maintenance during the life of the lease… Tweet This Post

Aggressive spending and expansion in clean technology would generate 1.1 million new jobs by 2030 and reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent, according to a new report by Google. If the U.S… Tweet This Post

Constellation Energy, a provider of utilities in Baltimore, announced today that it is investing an undisclosed sum in residential solar panel provider Astrum Solar. Astrum Solar will provide solar panels for around 1 million of Constellation Energy’s customers… Tweet This Post

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it has granted a $136 million conditional loan guarantee to Granite Reliable Power for a 99-megawatt wind farm project in New Hampshire. The wind farm will be located in northern New Hampshire, around 110 miles north of Concord… Tweet This Post