Google Trends has been on the radar of software techies, research junkies, Google aficionados, and the otherwise internet-obsessed since the summer of 2006.  It’s a tool for tracking the search popularity of high traffic terms.  For anyone wanting to keep their finger on the pulse of green build...

Going green was big news for a while, then the collapsing economy put a cloud over the movement. Nonetheless, a derth of reporting doesn’t mean that the scientists, entrepreneurs, and business brains behind the burgeoning industry have slowed down. If anything, their products are growing in ma...

It's always fun to predict what's going to happen. The risk of being spectacularly wrong is very high, but that's what makes the exercise so entertaining. 'Tis the season for dwelling, quickly, on what we learned last year -- de-leveraging is really painful and when gas prices are high, people want ...

(Image: Rich Pedroncelli/AP) On the homepage of the Container Recycling Institute is a counter clocking how many beverage containers have been landfilled, littered and incinerated in the United States. This year alone the counter has tallied over 125 billion bottles and cans. Amazingly, the average ...

This is Hangar 25, a LEED Platinum certified airport hangar located at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California.  It's the world's first aviation hangar to achieve such a high level of certification from the USGBC.  The 60,000 square foot structure was built by Shangri-La Construction w...

Mitsubishi Ramps Up Cleantech Commitment, BP Bows Out of UK Wind Energy Efforts In the wake of the U.S. presidential election, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced plans to expand business operations aimed to helping to mitigate climate change. The plans call for ambitious new sales go...

Many companies want to do the right thing with green business, but find it is just too expensive. While sustainability of our people, planet and prosperity can not be compromised, somehow it is hard to “do it now” if the price seems just too high. Pictured (left to right): Terry Roberts,...

If you haven’t heard of SPUN yet, don’t worry.  You will.  The lovely and talented founder of the company, Sara Seumae is riding a wave of popularity as her sustainable, chic designs continue to gain a reputation among fashionistas.  I had the opportunity to “meet” Sara on...

Australian government has planned to make some very strict rules to control CO2 emissions. The Liquified Nitrogen Gas industry fears that it may lose up to $60 billion worth of investments because of their inclusion in the emissions trading scheme. On the other hand, automakers have taken a sigh of ...

I was really bummed when I was planning on featuring some of Nau’s new summer fashions on this site and I got to their homepage and learned they were closing shop. But then….. ……they confounded us all by throwing a HUGE summer sale which had ridiculously good deals as part of...