Cape Town – Eskom has confirmed that it is busy with a viability study on an application to earn carbon credits for the construction of the Medupi coal-fired power station. It is believed that Eskom wants to motivate the application on the strength of the power station being a modern, “cleaner” coal-fired power station. This [...]

More than 20 years ago, Mayor Richard M. Daley had a vision of a green Chicago, from trees and roofs to green buildings and alleys. While on a visit to Germany in the late 1990s, he saw a green roof on Hamburg’s City Hall and sought to replicate the idea in Chicago. He wanted the [...]

The benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 11,000 for the first time since stock markets began their nosedive 18 months ago. And the rebound in investor and trader confidence seems to be taking renewable energy and clean technology stocks with it. Solar company stocks, in particular, have been performing well at the close of [...]

Green Maven: Green Maven is a search engine designed to specifically search the “green web.” They focus on helping you find the best green, conscious, and sustainable web sites. There’s also a Green Maven Firefox plugin to make those searches even easier. Green Maven Ecocho: Ecocho is a green search engine, which is essentially just [...]