Most Recent News

Don't miss daily news

Envia Electric Car Battery Lasts 300 Miles

In a press release late last month energy tech innovator Envia Systems announced it has developed an electric car battery capable of lasting up to 300 miles. At 400 watt-hour/kilogram,.

  • 0
  • 7,745 views

E-Waste Piles Up With Each New Apple Announcement

Apple’s iPad announcement today may move tablet technology forward, but it moves environmental initiatives backward. With each new product release, Apple diehards ditch their older hardware in favor of camping.

  • 0
  • 646 views

Glacier Tapping Towers, Garbage-Filled Skyscrapers Win Evolo Design Contest

Architecture magazine eVolo held its sixth annual skyscraper design competition this year, showcasing some of the most incredible, futuristic design concepts for architecture around, including vertical landfills, a mountainside home.

  • 0
  • 471 views

From Airbnb to Zaarly: A Short History of Collaborative Consumption Startups

I was born in the 1980’s. It was the decade in which Gordon Gekko proclaimed, “greed is good!”, teens were mallrats, and shoulder pads helped ring in the decade of the.

  • 0
  • 660 views

HAGENT Will Warm Your Heart (And Home)

One day HAGENT will be your own personal heating assistant. HAGENT is a small, box-shaped robot that absorbs and redistributes heat throughout environments. The cube wheels itself around, guided by.

  • 0
  • 484 views

The Power Of The Heartland

More often than not, the Midwest is thought of for its vast open prairies rather than technology or innovation. However, The Department of Energy says our topography actually primes MidWest.

  • 0
  • 542 views

So, You Want a Job in the Green Industry…

Every week or so I get a message from a friend, family member or ex-coworker along the lines of “My third cousin’s pet sitter wants to get into the green.

  • 0
  • 351 views

A “Dysfunctional Family” Meets To Discuss Clean Energy

The evening of June 23, 250 professionals from all walks of clean energy gathered downtown for Connecting Clean Energy – Chicago’s Premier event for Education & Networking.  (At least those.

  • 0
  • 396 views

Startups: Start Green, Stay Green

The majority of big business executives still hold the misguided view of ‘green’ initiatives as luxurious public relations tactics rather than opportunities to operate more efficiently (although they’d only admit.

  • 0
  • 456 views

Chicago’s National Retrofitting Group Sees Light in Commercial Energy Savings

This post written by Brian Koles After slogging away as a well-paid but under-inspired banker for several years out of college, Chicago native Scott Bernstein decided it was time to.

  • 0
  • 441 views