A good way for a bank to make people forget its role in the sub-prime financial fiasco that’s rocked the economy is to focus on its climate change and sustainability efforts and that’s what Bank of America Merrill Lynch is doing.

BoA’s “Environmental Progress Report” this month revealed the good things it is up to on [...]

It took a French newspaper to unearth information put out by the U. S. government more than one year ago that provides a worrisome projection for world oil supplies from an agency that for years said such supplies would be no problem for the foreseeable future. Glen Sweetnam of the U. S. Energy Information Administration [...]

The U.S. Air Force annually uses about 2.5 billion gallons of fuel, resulting in the service’s second highest annual operations and budgetary expense. The increasing costs of energy and reducing the dependence on foreign oil as well as increasing environmental concerns have led the USAF to develop an energy strategy based on three pillars: reduce [...]

Jerseyville, IL about 44 miles north of where I grew up in Southern Illinois (and about the same mileage from St. Louis, MO) is getting the first LEED Platinum certified housing community. This cutting edge green community will be using solar panels and wind turbines to provide all power (meaning $0 utility bills).

Not only that, [...]

Last week I talked about ITM Power’s new HFuel portable hydrogen refueling station as potentially being a game changer in regard to quickly and easily rolling out hydrogen infrastructure as needed and where needed.

This week, specialty gas manufacturer Air Products has also announced their spin on a new kind of hydrogen fueling station that could [...]

A United Nations website launched this month, FastStartFinance.org, is designed to track climate funding commitments from industrialized countries.

The move is an attempt to make sure that developed economies will deliver on their proposals to provide seed funding to help poorer nations battle climate change.

The Copenhagen Accord included a commitment from developed countries’ to provide developing [...]

Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) systems have become a well accepted and powerful tool in various markets like in the electrical energy industry, in fire detection and downhole well monitoring. Following a general trend, the initially isolated stand-alone DTS systems become recently more and more integrated into complex Supervisory Control and [...]

Ohio is no stranger to hydrogen. The hydrogen-powered Buckeye Bullet 2 racecar was built by students and faculty at Ohio State University. In 2007, Wal-Mart had successfully tested hydrogen fuel cell pallet trucks in on of their Ohio stores.

And NASA has decided to build a hydrogen fueling station based upon renewable energy at the Great [...]

If you want to talk about a car that is full of crap then let’s talk about the Bio-Bug by Geneco. The makers claim the converted VW Bug runs of methane biogas that comes from the local UK waste-water treatment plants.

Right on the side of the car it says, “Powered By Your Waste” and what [...]

The U.S. Department of Defense is the single largest oil consumer in the world.

According to the data provided in the DOD’s  Federal Energy Management Report for Fiscal Year 2009 DoD oil consumption in 2009 jumped to 375,000 barrels per day.

In the year 2000 it was less than 280,000 barrels per day. Note that there are only [...]