Short for Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, ARPA-E is modeled after the more familiar DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Famously, DARPA invented and incubated the proto-Internet nearly 50 (!) years ago and stands out as a success story, repeated by…
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Carbon capture fares well in Obama’s 2012 federal budget proposal | Global CCS Institute
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Round 1 in the US budgeting process has begun, with key green priorities such as carbon capture surviving with barely a scratch. In the face of relentless pressure to cut public spending, President Obama proposed a U.S. federal budget for…
The Blend of Judo & Kabuki That’s Driving Sustainability at GSA | GreenBiz
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As a crucial part of his ambitious goal to turn the federal government into a leader in green practices, President Obama has turned to an unexpected resource to help drive the effort: the government’s purchasing and property arm, the General…
Winning the Sustainability Battle, Losing the Carbon War? | GreenBiz
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0inShare In establishing the Carbon War Room, Richard Branson, the British-born media and aviation billionaire, explicitly treats the threat of catastrophic climate change as one similar to the threat posed by a world war. Taking this metaphor a step further,…
Coca-Cola Decides to Gulp Down the Rest of Honest Tea | GreenBiz
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Honest Tea, the fast-growing 13-year-old vendor of organic teas, first attracted the attention of Coca-Cola back in 2008, when the fizzy drinks giant took a 40 percent stake in the green-minded startup. Today, CEO Seth Goldman announced that Honest Tea…
What GE Has in Store for Round 2 of the Ecomagination Challenge | GreenBiz
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29diggsdigg GE is going back to the innovation well. Encouraged by the success of its $200 million Ecomagination Challenge — a crowdsourced contest, which yielded scores of grid-scale technology and investment opportunities — the Connecticut-based conglomerate is turning up the…