News: BBC.
A Greek Orthodox church in Cyprus will invest a substantial sum ($234m) towards solar panel manufacturing. The move should generate profits for the church, and also act as an anticipatory measure for a looming power crisis on the island.
We’ve noticed that smaller countries, like Cyprus, are increasingly home to these types of stories. Private [...]

News: Associated Press.
An overhaul of the ferry routes to the Statue of Libery, designed to improve visitor experiences, will include green measures. Officials plan for reduced fuel consumption, including the use of solar and batteries to power the boats. One solar-powered ferry will provide a trip around the statue, without a landing, for tourists who [...]

News: CBS.
AC Transit will use solar energy at facilities in Hollywood and Oakland to save $5m a year and reduce its carbon footprint. The company touted both benefits, emphasizing the environmental impact as well as the financial windfall.
AC Transit marks the latest in a long string of California companies going solar, presumably due to the [...]

News: Ignite Clean Energy Competition
Since 2004, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge has sponsored ICE (Ignite Clean Energy), a sustainable business competition with a twist: ICE is judged according to business presentations.
The idea is to encourage companies devoted to reducing the energy sector’s dependence on fossil fuels to develop business plans that might actually attract [...]

News: Green Warehouses
An overlooked corner of the green building market has been distribution centers: corporations and office buildings are getting LEED-certified left and right, but with a 5-7% higher initial investment necessary to achieve the same standards as traditional buildings, DC’s have been slow to follow suit.
With recognition that green building is a sound financial [...]

The commercial agriculture industry in the United States relies on high yields from annual crops, most of which are single-variety and the only crop grown on a given plot of land all year.
Soil erosion and nutrient degradation have become so pronounced that researchers are concerned about the long-term viability of the industry. Global warming has [...]

Saturday was an exciting day for us at GetSolar. The House passed two new energy bills that, among other things, will require most utilities to generate 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources.
The measures also begins to extend and address production tax credits, which have been crucial to promoting growth in the renewables sector—and [...]

Remember when Paul Hogan was popular and everyone knew what a Vegemite sandwich was?
Back in February, Australia announced that it would phase out the sale of incandescent light bulbs by 2010. The bulbs, which are foolishly inefficient, will be pulled from the market in order to allow compact fluorescent (CFLs) bulbs and LEDs to take [...]

Ermenegildo Zegna—the high-fashion Italian menswear company known for its chic sports jackets and made-to-measure suits—has announced the debut of a solar luxury jacket in its Zegna Sport Spring/Summer 2008 collection.
The company claims the jacket is the first of its kind. Considering the international frenzy over the Anya Hindmarch ‘I’m Not a Plastic Bag’ totes, which [...]

News: Spectrum Online
Traditionally, photovoltaic cells are fabricated from silicon. While cell efficiency is continually improving, the fact remains that the electricity generated from them is more expensive than that generated from conventional energy sources.
As the initial price and longer returns on investment are the main obstacles of more mainstream adoption of photovoltaic solar cells, the [...]