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...

Eco Factor: Energy-efficient television from Toshiba. Flexible OLED screens have always shown their mettle whenever it comes to energy conservation. Toshiba has now thought of another use for flexible OLED screens, which can make them more useful than simply a futuristic billboard. The paper televis...

Image credit: DK Report via Stock High. New Innovations May Help Reduce Aviation Emissions - Eventually I've lost count of the number of times that TreeHugger has written about the aviation industry's vulnerability to high oil prices or the interconnections between flying and climate change. Yet it'...

The mobile phone industry plans to introduce a universal charger as part of a drive to improve its previously patchy environmental record. The plan from industry body the GSM Association (GSMA) is just one of a raft of "green" announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Not only will it mea...

Guardian: Link to this video Looking around it's hard to find clues. There are few obvious clues that Penney Poyzer and Gil Schalom live in one of the most radical homes in the UK. In the kitchen is a recently plastered wall; on the floor an organic veg box; and upstairs a dual-flush loo. Otherwise ...

Meet the satnav that nags you to conserve fuel. Dubbed the Econav, this new gadget will not only guide you from Land's End to John O'Groats but will also tick you off when you abuse the accelerator and brake pedal. It'll sigh - well, flash a visual and audio warning - when you need to shift gear. If...

It is hard to choose whether to save money as a cure for the spending free-for-all we used to indulge in, or to spend to stimulate the economy. But there are a few ways to help both your finances and the country’s....

Posted by Ed Lu, Engineering team (Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) [As Google expands its clean energy advocacy, we will be doing more in Washington to bring the perspective of our users and the voice of experts into the policy debate. Join us next Tuesday at our DC office for "Plug Int...

energy, IT, policy Gregory T. Huang wrote: How will President Obama’s proposed economic stimulus package affect the energy and cleantech industry in the Northwest? We’ve been hearing a lot of rumblings on this front lately. To help sort it all out, I spoke with Michael Butler, chairman a...

Telegraph: The Trust aims to renovate more than five thousand buildings to meet minimum environmental standards. The first priority will be insulation through lagging in the walls and roofs, draught proofing chimneys and double glazing. Saving water will also be important with flow-restricted taps f...