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Corporate Cooperation: Nike, Best Buy, Yahoo to Share Sustainable Patents

Corporate Cooperation: Nike, Best Buy, Yahoo to Share Sustainable Patents

Some of the world's largest corporations have chosen to join a web-based marketplace where companies can collaborate and share intellectual property and hopefully speed up the development of sustainable patents.

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FloDesign Raises $42.8 Million for Jet-Inspired Wind Turbine

FloDesign Raises $42.8 Million for Jet-Inspired Wind Turbine

FloDesign secures $34.5 million of venture capital to go with $8.3 million from feds via ARPA-E program.

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Measuring Wind Speed with Solar-Powered Sonic Wind Profiling

Measuring Wind Speed with Solar-Powered Sonic Wind Profiling

a Massachusetts company has developed a system that measures wind speeds and other data--up to a height of 200 meters in the air--without the need for meteorological tower or guy-wires. In fact, the whole thing fits in the back of a pick-up.

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Are We On the Cusp of Dramatically More Efficient Computing?

Are We On the Cusp of Dramatically More Efficient Computing?

Revolutionary material allows electrons to travel on its surface with no loss of energy, drastically improving computer chip efficiency and possibly replacing common silicon semiconductors.

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NREL Uses Old Gas Pipelines as Structure in New Building

NREL Uses Old Gas Pipelines as Structure in New Building

The National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado has found a way to renew some natural gas pipeline for use in a new building at their Golden campus.

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Fighting Desertification by Turning Dunes Into Architcture

Fighting Desertification by Turning Dunes Into Architcture

Architecture student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh Sahara desert using bacteria and a surprising construction material: the sand itself.

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Green Community Models: The Business Incubator

Green Community Models: The Business Incubator

While past incubators may have given life support to start-ups that may not have deserved it, a new generation of these organizations (both for- and non-profit) are springing up to support eco-minded start-ups.

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Coca-Cola Unveils Plant-Based ‘Bottle of the Future’

Coca-Cola Unveils Plant-Based ‘Bottle of the Future’

If Coca-Cola is able to carry out its strategic vision of finding other sources of waste-plant material to make MEG from, it may not be long before most Coke products are packaged entirely in 100% plant-based, recyclable bottles.

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Scotland Plugs-In World’s Largest Working Wave Energy Device

Scotland Plugs-In World’s Largest Working Wave Energy Device

Aquamarine Power last week connected the world's largest working hydro-electric wave energy device, off Scottland's Orkney Islands, to the UK National Grid.

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Why Google and Cisco will Soon Manage All Your Energy Use

Why Google and Cisco will Soon Manage All Your Energy Use

The IT leaders have re-entered your home and business in a whole new way. Companies like Google and Cisco are providing the tools to help consumers and businesses monitor and manage their energy use to reduce carbon emissions.

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