September. Summer coming to a close, kids going back to school. Soon the leaves will be turning. But before we go there, let's take a look at some of the stories that grabbed our attention this week: Bill Gates' interview in Technology Review spa...

Image by kitch via Flickr What do you get when you pair the latest 21st century energy technologies with with one of the country’s oldest transportation systems? Viridity Energy, a Philadelphia-area smart grid company, and the Southeastern Pennsyl...

Image via WikipediaHas Bjørn Lomborg had a Saul/Paul conversion on the road to Global Warming's Damascus? Or is Lomborg once again playing the media for attention on the eve of releasing a new book?  The Guardian reported this morning that the...

First, some good news from our oceans for a change: Oceanospirillales are into dining on oil, according to researchers in a new article in Science Up to 40 New Plant and Animal Species Discovered in Indonesian Waters: Indonesian Bounty   and...

Image via Wikipedia Philadelphia Navy Yard, Robert N. Dennis collection Can Philadelphia become the birthplace of another kind of American independence: energy independence? Two developments this week add to the Greater Philadelphia region's bid to...

Image via Wikipedia When Jason ­Pontin, Technology Review's editor in chief, sat down with Bill Gates earlier this summer, one of their topics was energy. Readers of The Green Skeptic will find much to admire in Mr. Gates' take on energy and, as...

Jonny's Not Rotten (Photo by Amado Garcia) Dog Days edition of the Green Skeptic LinkFest. So, I'll start with Sunday's cover story in PARADE magazine on the "Vick dogs" - the dogs that football player Michael Vick abused and Vick-timized in his Virg...

U.S. Consumers, Executives Skeptical about Corporate Sustainability Commitment from Environmental Leader: A new sustainability survey reveals that only 16 percent of U.S. consumers and 29 percent of Fortune 1000 executives believe that a majority of...

This year's New Energy Symposium took place last week at the New York Academy of Sciences' lush office and conference space at the World Trade Center in New York. Co-hosted by the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's (CNSE) Energy and Envi...

(photo Erika Nortemann/TNC) It's a special Friday the 13th edition of The Green Skeptic Friday LinkFest! Some spooky news this week: A quartet of earnings reports came out this week in cleantech: SunPower, Cree, and A123, LDK: Earnings  ...

Image via Wikipedia NREL, Golden, CO With the death of Cap-and-Trade legislation in the Senate, Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) are starting to become more and more attractive to renewable energy boosters. But are FiTs all they are cracked up to be? NREL, t...

I was on FOX Business with Varney & Co this morning talking about the BP Oil Spill.  While it is not the greatest environmental disaster in history, there are still many people whose lives and livelihoods are affected by this spill and we wo...

An EV1 all-electric car by GM that escaped in 2005. Digging in this week post-vacation. After five months of intense work with some great clients, my consultancy, VerdeStrategy, finally has a couple of open slots for new projects and clients. Con...

Eric Wesoff at Greentech Media raises some interesting questions for $FSLR investors and ponders whether there's a "new black swan improbable pyro-nano-quantum-thingamajig technology" waiting to displace thin-film PV: As we watch First Solar lower t...

I appeared on FOX Business with Stuart Varney and Company this morning, talking about GM and the Chevy Volt.  Here is the video: And here is a link, in case your browser doesn't support the format: Green Skeptic on Fox Business Related arti...

Calvin on the Beach @ OKI. A vacation edition of The Green Skeptic's Friday links. I've been on the North Carolina coast this week and haven't been paying close attention to the web and Twitterstreams, but here are a few things from some of my pals...

San Diego has a lot going for it: beautiful weather all year round, a great coast, and...well, the new StockTwits HQ on Coronado. And now, after several years of investment, hard work, and a smart Republican mayor, Jerry Sanders, who saw and seized...

A few months ago, I was interviewed by Tom Schurman for BizVoice, a publication of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, on the subject of clean energy, green jobs, and the difficult balancing act of the green movement overall. Here is a link to a PDF of...

Image via WikipediaGreetings, it's Friday. I'm getting ready to head down to Oak Island for a little R&R, but not before posting this week's links of interest: Applied Materials ($AMAT) gave the ax to its thin-film solar business, laying off 500...

A few years ago, Adam Sherlip was working with the New York Islanders hockey team and Team USA star and Olympic medalist Angela Ruggiero, coordinating their  Charles B. Wang Ice Hockey Project Hope initiative, a youth hockey development program...

The New York City Accelerator for a Clean and Renewable Economy (NYC ACRE) turns one year old this month. NYC ACRE is part of the business incubator at 160 Varick Street in SoHo, which is a joint venture between the New York City Economic Developme...

Here are some links to articles of interest to The Green Skeptic this week: Nick Hodge Deconstructs the Smart Grid and some investment opportunities in Seeking Alpha: Smart Grid Fred Wilson (despite being on vacation in Europe) wrote a compelling...

Image by S Migol via FlickrMy friend Shari Shapiro at Green Building Law blog makes some good points about the recent smart meter debate going on in California, Texas, Maryland, and now Fairfax, Virginia:  Smarting Over Smart Meters The Seque...

Friday again? Where did this week go? Here are your Friday Green Skeptic Links of Interest for 07/09/10: Katie Fehrenbacher reports on how Smart Meters are A Fraction of the Smart Grid Market in Earth2Tech: Smart Meters. Sequoia and Foundation Cap...

A video of the Cleantech Alliance Mid-Atlantic Spring Networking Event, featuring Terry Cooke's talk on Cleantech and China is now available. (The editors were too generous with my introductory remarks, but you'll get a sense of the event from the o...