Tell Your Mayor To Take Action for the Environment!
| Transparent Solar Cells Made For Windows If solar cells were transparent, they could be fitted to windows and building facades. Physical modeling helps in the development of suitable materials for transparent electronics and thus in creating the basis for transparent solar cells. |
| Tell Your Mayor To Take Action for the Environment! The pending energy bill is crucial for the future of our planet (hence, the numerous posts)! I’ve asked you to take action before, and am asking you to do so once more. However, in a slightly different format. Instead of asking you to contact your representatives, I am asking you to contact your mayor to ask him to contact your representatives. I like this route for two reasons: 1. It allows your mayor to see how important the environment is to his or her constituency (thus, potentially inspiring them to sign on to the “Cool Cities” program like my new. |
| “Our Choice” by Al Gore Former Vice President Al Gore’s new book, “Our Choice,” exceeded my expectations. It should be required readng for new Chief Sustainability Officers, corporate green team members, and anyone else who has decided to place sustainability closer to the center of what they do. |
| The Nuclear Question View from the Poletop: Should new nuclear plants be part of the US strategy on carbon reduction and renewable energy? Yes, but not necessarily for the reasons you think. |
| President Obama’s Energy Speech at MIT President Barack Obama has been a courageous supporter of clean energy. He spoke October 23, 2009, to an audience of 750 at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. Here are our Founding Editor’s take-aways from the speech, plus a link to the video and full transcript. |
| Dip ordinary paper into ink infused with nanotubes and nanowires to create an instant battery Dip an ordinary piece of paper into ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires, and it turns into a battery or supercapacitor. Crumple the piece of paper, and it still works. Researchers see many uses for this new way of storing electricity. |