People talk a lot about alternative fuels being more viable with oil at such high prices. It also, however, makes other, more exotic, fossil fuel extraction techniques viable.  This piece in the UK’s Independent outlines how oil reserves are understated because certain known fields are too expensive to extract at this time - and therefore are excluded from oil reserve [...]

A new Center for American Progress (CAP) report finds that in a study of 12 states, there are people that work in jobs that could be “green jobs”.  And collectively, accross the country this is over 14MM people, or nearly 10% of the U.S. work force.  Wow… that’s impressive…. 10% of Americans work in jobs that could be [...]

This post over at The Big Picture got me thinking more about how far we are away from a rational market for green investment - public or private.  The problem - opacity - or the opposite of transparency for those of you in a negative mood.  Sure there are lots of alternative energy technologies that [...]

This is way cool.  Its not immediately clear from the post at Businessweek that Envision operates as a PPA (power purchase agreement) - where the property owner signs a long term purchase agreement for the power that is generated from the solar units - offsetting the capital costs of the company installing them and eventually generating profit.  [...]

A very important policy development for renewable energy and greentech is buried in the Warner-Lieberman cap and trade bill. Could Congress have done something smart?