Sustainability at the Oscars: Going Green Can Be Glamorous
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chickpokipsie/ Glitz, glamor, and environmental sustainability are on the agenda today at the Oscars. For the seventh year in a row, the organizers of the Academy...
View ArticleNeah Power: A Fast-Growing Fuel-Cell Name
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juggernautco/ Over the past couple of years, investors who have focused on specific investment themes have done extremely well. Some investors have focused on the...
View ArticleMethes Energies Continues to Fly Under the Radar
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juggernautco/ With large-cap stocks continuing to surge higher into record valuations, investors may want to take a step back and focus on small-cap names that...
View ArticleMethes Energies Surging as Renewable Energy Industry Continues to Grow
Over the past few years, companies in the renewable energy industry have gained immense popularity with investors as driven entrepreneurs continue to seek out possible replacements for conventional...
View Article3 Compelling Investment Ideas in LED Lighting Industry
As investors look ahead to the future, one industry that may be on the cusp of exponential growth is LED (light emitting diode) lighting. One of the main reasons why I expect to see significant growth...
View ArticleWant to Be a Billionaire? Solve One of These 5 Problems
water scarcity | Warrick Page/Getty Images Making money can be reduced to a simple method: solve a problem. Figuring out an easy, quick, and profitable solution to a ubiquitous issue is the basic...
View ArticleHow We Can Create Energy From the World’s Most Powerful Ocean
Oli Scarff/Getty Images The relationship between humankind and the natural world is often tense. People seek to use the earth’s resources and tame the effects of the natural world for more comfortable...
View Article3 Reasons Why Solar Energy Is One of America’s Hottest Industries
Ethan Miller/Getty Images The sun is finally shining on the solar industry. After years of being eclipsed by other renewable energy sources, solar has become hot. The renewable energy source is...
View ArticleThe Solar Industry Is About to Have Its Day in the Sun
Source: Getty Images It’s been a long, winding road for solar energy. The industry itself has been held back for many years, if not decades, by high costs, low adoption rates, and slowly-evolving...
View Article7 Apple Revelations From Tim Cook’s Goldman Sachs Talk
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images As he has in previous years, Apple CEO Tim Cook recently participated in the annual Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference. At the conference, Cook...
View ArticleThis Simple Energy Breakthrough Could Change Everything
Source: iStock Scientists have been mimicking nature for years, but few discoveries are this successful, or important. In an effort to develop clean, renewable energy sources, a team from the...
View Article10 Most Energy Efficient States in America
CHICAGO – SEPTEMBER 01: Solar photovoltaic panels generate electricity at an Exelon solar power facility on September 1, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. The 10-megawatt facility located on the city’s south...
View ArticleInside America’s Energy Addiction
Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images America is addicted to energy. We drill miles under the ocean, run nation-length pipelines, and even go to war just to get our fix. Our reliance on cheap fuel...
View ArticleBoomtown: The State of U.S. Energy Production in 4 Charts
Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Energy is the backbone of the American economy. Without reliable, reasonably-priced sources of energy, economic systems the world over would eventually grind to a...
View ArticleGas Prices Are Falling, But Solar Energy Is Set to Take Over
Source: Thinkstock 2016 is going to be an incredibly pivotal year for a lot of reasons, and the future of clean, renewable energy in America is just one of them. Why 2016? That’s the year that the...
View ArticleWhy Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Need to Clean Up Their Act
CLEMENS BILAN/AFP/Getty Images The release date for the Toyota Mirai, America’s first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, is arriving soon. In fact, the timing may be too fast for scientists who...
View ArticleWant to Be a Billionaire? Solve One of These 5 Problems
Warrick Page/Getty Images Making money can be reduced to a simple method: solve a problem. Figuring out an easy, quick, and profitable solution to a ubiquitous issue is the basic equation that any...
View ArticleA World Without Oil? Renewable Energy is the Future in Saudi Arabia
Hassan Ammar/AFP/Getty Images If Saudi Arabia, king of oil producers, sees an eventual end to fossil fuels, the world should pay attention. Climate negotiators are gearing up for a major summit in...
View ArticleA New Report Is Destroying Biofuel Claims
Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images Despite their promise over the past decade or so, biofuels have been found to be a very inefficient way to generate energy, are bad for the environment, and even contribute...
View ArticleThe 5 Richest Tycoons in Renewable Energy
Source: iStock Not so many years ago, the idea of a renewable energy CEO raking in billions — joining the ranks of oil barons, publishing tycoons, banking scions, and other captains of industry — would...
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