Green livery service PlanetTran just got a little greener, with cash. The Boston-based company, which operates fleets of hybrid vehicles for livery services, has completed its first institutional round of financing from Cue Ball Capital, a Boston-based venture and early growth equity investment firm...

The much ballyhooed smart grid might be buoyed by the stimulus bill, which appropriates $4.5 billion in direct spending to modernize the electricity grid with smart-grid technologies (part of the $11 overall for spending related to the smart grid), but that doesn’t mean there's a clear, easy path ...

At Power Shift '09 this weekend, 12,000 young activists converged in Washington, DC, for green-minded revelry and impassioned rabble-rousing. It was capped on Monday by an snowy protest at a DC coal-fired power plant, where protestors donning green hard hats chanted "no more coal" and prepared for a...

The eco-story of 2008, it seemed, was about how the little tweaks that you and I can make to our lifestyles—biking rather than driving to work, or carrying reusable totes to the grocery store—could, in aggregate, change the world. While that premise is certainly debatable, it was repeated in pra...