Finding the capital necessary to take what looks like a great product from the 'garage' or university lab to the marketplace is difficult during the best of times. In today's environment, clean energy and technology entrepreneurs could probably identify even more with Tantalus, the character from Gr...

Times are particularly tough for newspaper publishers, distributors and agents. Even august members of the industry, such as the New York Times and Washington Post, are feeling the pain and being forced to take some extraordinary measures to assure their sustainability while trying to adapt to a rad...

Flying over Panama, it's hard not to be dazzled, and a bit awestruck, by the vast expanses of lush, seemingly almost untouched tropical forest. This bird's eye view can be misleading, however. The dwindling amount of large, contiguous tracts of undeveloped tropical rainforest that remain are under i...

The 116 banks receiving emergency bailout funds from the government doled out some $1.6 billion in executive compensation in 2007, even as these corporate leaders led their companies and the US financial system over the brink. The same is seen at multinational US automakers, where GM CEO Waggoner's ...

It started early this year when I began receiving spam emails asking if I wanted to power my car with water. More than a little skeptical and suspicious, I passed such enticements up and deleted them. Though they piqued my journalistic curiosity, the fact that I don't own a car, and haven't for more...

It's hard not to notice, generally speaking, the stark differences in cultures, personalities and characters of leading lights in the energy and IT industries, particularly when it comes to strategic planning, organizational management and R&D, and especially when it comes to public relations and th...

Facing up to the “3 Hard Truths� identified by Shell’s Global Business Environment team in its “Global Energy Scenarios to 2050� (see previous post) means facing up to the hard reality of humanity’s growing population, tight energy supplies, increasing energy consumption and associated e...

Royal Dutch Shell’s Global Business Environment executive Jeremy Bentham and team addressed and fielded questions from the press regarding the company’s “Energy Scenarios to 2050� research and analysis during the first of a planned series of live Shell Dialogues web chats earlier today, May ...

Shares of alternative energy companies continue to be hard hit given worsening financial and economic conditions but there is strength and support underlying investments in the sector. So says Walter Nasdeo, managing director at Ardour Capital Investments, a pioneer when it comes to alternative ener...

Commemorating the centennial of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt’s 1908 Conference of Governors, present day governors and representatives from 18 states, Washington and other national governments including Canada, the Czech Republic and Mexico set out to review state programs aimed at combating climate c...