Ford Motor Company is using more renewable and recyclable materials in its vehicles.  Most recently, the company included soy and bio-based seat cushions and seatbacks on the 2010 Ford Taurus.

With the acquisition of Enspiria Solutions, Black & Veatch is looking to expand its Smart Grid services. 

The U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy has recently granted Sion Power $5 million to develop batteries for electric vehicles.  Li-S offers more than twice the energy capacity of lithium ion technology at half the weight, according to a Sion Power press release.

The IBM Smarter Buildings study found that while most workers would like their offices to be greener but indicate that most of their buildings are still behind in becoming more efficient and environmentally responsible.

Find out how the passion for sustainability reached a tipping point at Synaptics and unleashed a flood of green change.

Cape Wind, the nation’s first offshore wind farm, plans to sell 50 percent of its energy output to National Grid at a rate of 20.7 cents per kilowatt hour.  Cape Wind is the United State’s first officially approved wind farm.  This may indicate the beginning of a new industry for the Great Lakes and Eastern Seaboard region.  

Village Green Global Environmental Evaluation Monitoring and Verification course graduates at East L.A. College were all offered jobs upon graduation. Skills focused on during course included: Environmental management, energy efficiency, occupational health, risk management, analyzing electrical and HVAC devices, insulation, air quality, and techniques of on-site data collection, and calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

SolarWorld plans to hire 350 additional workers for two new factories located in Hillsboro, Ore. SolarWorld is a global manufacturer of solar technology that includes solar panels for homes and businesses.

Green teams are self-organized, grassroots and cross-functional groups of employees who voluntarily come together to educate, inspire and empower employees around sustainability. Find out how the Rush University Medical Center’s Green Team is taking smalls steps that are driving big change.

A new iPhone app helps consumers save money and environment.  The app allows users to calculate carbon and financial savings of a product.  Background and current findings concerning carbon dioxide is also given.

PC-based power management for functional buildings or small industrial complexes, helps prevent power peaks and reduce energy costs.

Julie Zizka was tired of forgetting her bags and not having them easily accessible. So she came up with an idea to neatly organize her bags in a single case.

At Rush University Medical Center, Chicago’s first full-service green hospital, and a leader among green hospitals in the U.S., they’re taking dramatic action to reduce their carbon footprint.  In fact, they are one of only four hospitals in the country to be Gold LEED certified.  

Part of their success comes from the support and commitment of the employee-based Rush Green Team. Mary Gregoire, PhD, and head of the team, talks about what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. In Part I of this two part series we focus on some of their biggest wins. 

Keeping its promise to make the 2010 Commonwealth Games the ‘greenest ever‘, India hired services of Atlanta-based Suniva and Reliance Industries  Solar Energy Group to install the largest rooftop solar energy power system in the country at the Thyagaraj Stadium.

GreenRock is a decorative rock landscaping solution that is made of recycled concrete. Each ½ cubic feet bag of GreenRock is made of recycled concrete roofing tiles, concrete paving stones and concrete blocks.

The U.S. Department of Energy recently selected Lockheed Martin to receive two grants totaling $1 million to advance the technology commercialization of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC).

Mitsubishi Electric has launched its new PV series intelligent power modules (IPM), mainly for use in residential photovoltaic (PV) inverters.  The six models, which can also be used in inverters for fuel cell systems, each measure 90mm×50mm.

Ice Energy, a provider of energy-storage solutions to the electric utility industry, will partner with municipal utility Glendale Water & Power (GWP) to install 1.5 MW of energy storage on Glendale, Calif., city buildings and local businesses under a $4.25 million program.

Federal-Mogul says it has developed an innovative new crankshaft seal design, called MicroTorq that reduces friction by up to 70 percent versus conventional lip-type seals.  They claim that this will result in an improvement in vehicle fuel economy of up to 0.49 percent and a reduction in CO2 emissions of 1-2 g/km compared to traditional seal designs.