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Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest electronics company, is the latest organization to join the board of Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a not-for-profit organization started by Google in 2007 to bring together industry, consumers, government and conservation organizations to increase the energy efficiency of computers.
The winners in the latest round of GE's Ecomagination Challenge were announced Thursday - a proper closing for the initiative's strong first year.
Applied Materials Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT), the world's largest provider of equipment used to manufacture both solar photovoltaic panels and computer chips, has announced plans to purchase Gloucester, Mass.-based Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, a leading maker of ion-implantation systems—which are used to build the transistors for solar panels, long-lasting, energy-efficient LED technology and mobile device chips—for $4.9 billion.
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), which became the largest purchaser of green power in the United States in the US in 2008 has publicly announced that it will seek to cover 85% of it’s US energy usage with renewable energy purchases.
Environmentalists have found yet another ally in their battle to prevent the passage of California’s regressive Proposition 23, which would put a temporary end to the environmental protections passed by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006.
For a number of years, notes ecologist and UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Daniel B.
Despite a few quiet murmurs of a new “bubble,” venture capitalists are generally very optimistic about the clean-tech energy and conservation sector, according to data collected through a recent survey from the tax and
The Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced the launch of the Save Energy Now LEADER Program, which will provide special technical assistance and resources to companies that promise to make significant improvements in energy efficiency.
Computer giant IBM is making a bold play in the highly competitive race to develop the next generation of super batteries.
