Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanoscience energy saving solutions, today announced that the Company has been approved as a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Industrial Technologies Program Save Energy Now as an ALLY organization.

A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley have discovered an inexpensive metal catalyst for generating hydrogen from water.

The currently pending Solar Industry Development and Jobs Act would not only create 22,198 jobs, it would also develop more than 5,000 MW of solar power by 2025. That’s enough energy to power about one million homes.  

Bloom Energy Corporate introduced its Bloom Energy Server recently which can produce continuous, reliable, clean and affordable power generation. 

Live in Oregon and looking to recycling your old electronics?  Waste Management is hosting free e-cycling events in Gold Beach, Lakeview, Burns, John Day, Heppner, Moro, Madras, and Hood River.

The Portland Trail Blazers are green leaders in the sports industry.  Sports teams have a unique opportunity to influence, partner with and educate the community to be greener.  The Trail Blazers recognize this and are making beginning to make a huge difference.  Learn about the sports perspective in this “trail blazing” article.

With the help of a grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Mississippi is building its first solar-powered housing project in the City of Jackson.

Today’s data centers are the epicenter of the enterprise and the demand for more and more powerful IT equipment just keeps rising, as well as driving increased demand on the world’s power grids.  NetApp talks about what they’re doing to reduce their own data centers’ carbon footprints by 80 percent and how they’re helping customers do the same. 

Kevin Costner and his team from Costner Industries and Ocean Therapy Solutions are headed to the Gulf to test their V20 Centrifugal Separator to clean the oil filled water.

NetApp’s egalitarian culture and down-to-earth management methods catapulted them to the #1 spot on Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 Companies to Work For in 2009.  It has infused their green work culture with a uniquely creative, communal flavor. Laura Pickering, Vice President at NetApp, talks about their unique e-waste reduction program, creative solutions to going green during tough economic times, and the impact green commitment can have on employee recruitment.

IBM and Hildebrand have teamed on a project that will involve installing monitoring systems into homes that will allow researchers to analyze electricity usage and its effect on human behavior.

SunPower will add 40-MW of capacity to a California Valley solar ranch in San Luis Obispo.  

WPL is sponsoring the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Building Design and Construction Exam Preparation webinar program.  The webinars started on May 27th, but registration is still available for some of the sessions.

Tesla Motors and Toyota have formed a partnership that will reopen the former New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (Nummi) plant in Fremont, California in 2012.  This bold and smart move achieves a number of valuable objectives for both companies.

Honeywell to build biomass-fueled plants in New Hampshire schools districts to help lower schools long-term energy costs, while helping the environment.

Utilities are looking for low investment solutions that are easy to deploy and deliver fast, measurable results.  That’s the market need that Verizon and CURRENT Group are looking to solve with their new joint smart grid offering.

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

The Broan Solar-Powered Attic Ventilator can help consumers save energy and money.

SBA 7A loan allows Scottsdale-based home retrofitting company, REEis to obtain a $350,000 loan to expand and hire new “green-collar” workers.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s new web tool helps schools develop achievable energy-saving plans.