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Falling Oil Price Forces Operators to Find Cost Savings in Water Management

November 20, 2015

Water management has become a very big concern in the oil & gas industry because it represents a significant percentage of total costs, according Dennis Calvert, CEO of BioLargo.

CBRE Exec on Green Buildings: Financing, New Technologies, and New Trends

November 2, 2015

Buildings are becoming ever more efficient, due in part to advances in technology and to more stringent regulations, says Peter Scarpelli, CBRE's global director for energy and sustainability....

Roundup: Lithium-Air Battery Breakthrough, Cambridge Univ. Says

November 3, 2015

81 corporations signed the "American Business Act on Climate Pledge"; Toyota, Honda bet on hydrogen-powered cars; DuPont builds world's biggest cellulosic ethanol plant using corn...

The Four Top Northeast Cleantech Open Startups

November 2, 2015

Being capital-light and utilitizing creative business models helped four start-ups win a regional contest; they now advance to the Cleantech Open Global Forum finals later this month....

Resiliency Driving Demand, Financing for Smart Energy Storage

October 20, 2015

Green Charge Networks, Sunverge and NYSERDA officials discuss how energy storage is meeting customers' demand for grid resiliency. And Sunverge is raising capital to deploy its solar...

$470M Wastewater-to-Energy Project Opens in DC

October 20, 2015

An innovative new thermal hydrolysis wastewater sludge-to-energy and fertilizer plant, financed by green bonds, opens in DC, the first such technology in the U.S. Public and private...

For BioLargo, Impact Investors Prove More Liquid than Venture Capital Funding

October 20, 2015

Many investors agree that BioLargo, a sustainable water company that uses technology to leverage the natural disinfectant properties of iodine to decontaminate water cheaply, is on...

Steam Builds for ‘PACE’ Firms to Drive Energy Efficiency Retrofits

October 20, 2015

The Property Assessed Clean Energy financing model is gaining momentum as a key driver of energy efficiency retrofits in both commercial and residential markets, attracting financings...

GE Creates $1B Subsidiary Focused on Energy Efficiency

October 20, 2015

GE is combining several of its renewable energy, energy storage and energy efficiency-related business lines under one roof, forming a new unit called Current that springs into being...

California, China, India Commit to New Clean Energy, Sustainability Goals

October 20, 2015

With the United Nations climate change conference in Paris looming, the governments of California, China and India have each taken new strides toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions...