Today we caught up with Dr. Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental health at Columbia University, who is arguably the world’s leading proponent of “vertical farming” or, if you will, industrial scale hydroponic and aeroponic crop production within high-rise buildings.  If you go to his website www.verticalfarm.com, you will find a very in-depth body of [...]

The internet has been around a long time, but finding information about green technology and finance on the internet, that’s something new entirely.  Take EcoWorld’s “Green Chips” index, for example.  Established in 2000, it is possibly the first, and still one of surprisingly few attempts to map publically traded green companies and green funds for investors.

Camino Energy’s “Energy Navigator”
Four new indexes of publically traded
sustainable [...]

When we caught up with Gridpoint’s Vice President for Product Strategy, Brian Golden, he wanted to make sure it was clear they offer a lot more than storage.  Gridpoint’s “Connect Series” product is a turnkey electricity management system that can be installed in light commercial or multi-unit residential buildings or at a utility substation, in order to monitor [...]

There are no official announcements of when the GM Volt will actually hit the showrooms in production quantities, but the year 2010 continues to hold up as the unofficial date.  Last week in the Detroit Free Press, in a report by Katie Merx entitled “A New Era Dawns for GM,” Vice Chairman Bob Lutz stated he [...]

Ever since “The Global Warming Swindle” was aired in the U.K. several months ago, I’ve been wanting to see it.  Well here it is, linked to by a very interesting blogger named “Al Fin” who has been posting since 2005.  Tonight I watched it in its entirety, and am more convinced than ever how dangerous and how wrong it [...]