Archives: May 2009

Climate Bill Passes House Committee

Posted by: John Carey on May 21

My email box is filling up with responses to the historic passage of a cap and trade climate bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee this evening (May 21)....

Should the military lead US green efforts?

Posted by: Adam Aston on May 18

Over at Money & Politics, BW's blog from inside the Washington DC beltway, Steve Levine writes about a report, released today, from a panel of high-ranking retired military leaders. They...

Can China go green?

Posted by: Adam Aston on May 17

Sometime last year, amidst election night debates over the need for the US to spark a green revolution, it began to occur to me that China might be a more...

Clouds Remain Over Solar Industry

Posted by: Mark Scott on May 12

Here’s a quick temperature gauge of the global solar market. Germany’s Q-Cells, the world’s largest maker of solar cells, reported a first-quarter net loss of €391.9 million ($534 million) on...

Electricity vs. Biofuels: Which Gets More Miles per Acre?

Posted by: John Carey on May 07

As if ethanol and other biofuels don't already have enough problems (see The Biofuel Bubble), here's another. A new study in the May 7th issue of Science magazine calculates that,...

Denmark's Vestas Pockets $1 Billion

Posted by: Mark Scott on May 01

What would you do with $1 billion? That's the question now being asked of Denmark's Vestas, the world's largest wind-turbine manufacturer, after the company pocketed $1 billion this week by...