With neon lights blazing, air conditioners running 24/7, businesses that never close, and Broadway shows that probably use more lights in an hour than I use in a year, one would hardly equate Las Vegas with green technology. Nevertheless, there are businesses, being led by the giant casinos, that are incorporating some "green" technology into their business models.

Scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth are today calling for urgent research to understand the impact of renewable energy developments on marine life. The study, now published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, highlights potential environmental benefits and threats resulting from marine renewable energy, such as off-shore wind farms and wave and tidal energy conversion devices.

California renewable power mandate's best-case scenario: 7% rate increase.

Covering the latest developments in the Chinese rare earth metals industry, IntertechPira will be hosting China Magnetics 2009 taking place Monday, October 26 through Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the Hilton Shanghai in Shanghai, China. This is the industry’s premier event bringing together all parts of the permanent magnets supply chain for an in-depth discussion of recent developments, as well as challenges and opportunities in China’s magnet and magnetic materials industry.

Solar electricity has a future: It is renewable and available in unlimited quantities, and it does not produce any gases detrimental to the climate. Its only drawback right now is the price: the electric power currently being produced by solar cells in northern Europe must be subsidized if it is to compete against the household electricity generated by traditional power plants.

Following the lead about just about every other company in the world, where introducing a product is of paramount importance, Clayton Homes this week introduced its ihouse (or ihome), which it says is at least 30% more energy- efficient than a traditional home.

Taking up valuable land and growing edible crops for biofuels poses a dilemma: Is it ethical to produce inefficient renewable energies at the expense of an already malnourished population? David Pimentel and his colleagues from Cornell University in New York highlight the problems linked to converting a variety of crops into biofuels.

LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, announced today that it had entered into an exclusive agreement with solar energy leader REC Wafer of Norway to purchase multicrystalline silicon wafers.

ust a few days before his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama stopped in Bedford Heights, Ohio, to visit the Cardinal Fastener factory there.

If you don't pay your own electric bills, you can find out, more or less, by checking out the EIA website, which gives, plus or minus this or that, the retail price of electricity.

Detroit Edison (DTE Energy) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to purchase Michigan-based renewable energy credits that will help the utility meet state requirements for providing electricity generated from renewable resources.

Parliamentary work by 2020 would reduce by 30% its emissions of carbon footprint.