Matter Network - News and Ideas for a Sustainable World

News and ideas for a sustainable world

Voices That Matter RSS

SustainableBusiness.com

Turbines Ready to Turn at First U.S. Commercial Tidal Energy Plant

Maine prepares to turn on a new source of electricity.»

Gas 2.0

Tesla’s Next Car: An Electric BMW 3-Series Fighter

Is a $30,000 electric luxury sedan just around the corner?»

Yale Environment 360

U.S. Identifies Zones for Solar Development on Public Lands

285,000 acres of 78 million are green-lighted for wind and solar.»

Cleantechnica

Electric Airplanes Could Fly Forever on Laser Beams

Lockheed Martin's next step is a field test outdoors.»

SustainableBusiness.com

Hospital of the Future Opens in San Diego

San Diego's Palomar Medical Center will be a more pleasant place to convalesce.»

EarthandIndustry

World’s Largest Wave Energy Project Headed for Australian Coast

American companies secure a 19-megawatt victory.»

CSRwire

Reasons For Optimism: Why Climate Change is not a 'Zero Sum Game'

Climate action may be easier than we think it is.»

Yale Environment 360

Warmer Ocean Waters Lead to a Glut of Lobsters in Maine

Plummeting prices create a crisis for lobstermen.»

Ecopreneurist

More Than $50 Million of New Investments in Renewable Energy

Perhaps Rio+20 wasn't a failure after all.»

News That Matters RSS

Des Moines Register

Lines Drawn on Wind Tax Credit: Romney Opposes It, Obama Favors It

High-stakes decision in a state that has many wind energy jobs.»

New York Times

India Endures World’s Largest Blackout

Population affected by the outage is greater than the census of the United States, Mexico and Central America combined.»

Earth2Tech

The Latest Venture Play: Composting

EcoScraps raises $1.5 million to turn tired veggies into dollars.»

Triple Pundit

California’s Publicly Owned Utilities Have Plenty of Work to Do on Renewables

Clean energy is coming online fast, but not fast enough.»

Guardian

U.S. Navy Veterans Urge Congress to Fund 'Critical' Green Fleet

Hundreds of veterans say biofuels are critical to national security.»

New York Times

Can You Really Build a Sustainable Olympics?

London organizers lessen the impact like never before.»

GreenTechMedia

Opower Claims 5 Million More Homes

Utilities begin to think of home energy management as a must-have.»

Washington Post

Greenland Glacier Loses Large Mass of Ice

A chunk of ice twice the size of Manhattan breaks off because of warmer oceans.»

Reuters

U.S. Drought Worsens Crop Damage, Raising World Food, Fuel Worry

Will the world's top producer of corn and soybeans fail to deliver?»

Advertisement