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Top 6 “Green” Seafood Choices From Monterey Bay Aquarium
Monterey Bay Aquarium takes the guesswork out of the best seafood choices: for the environment and for your health. If you’re anything like me, you don’t know what’s good to eat anymore. Long after...
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Proposed California Bill Could Be Big for Israel’s Innowattech
Between 11,500 and 51,000 vehicles drive on California freeways and expressways every day. Energy Harvesting Journal posted earlier today that California Assemblyman Mike Gatto has proposed a bill...
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BrightSource Solar Raises Another $122 Million
Israeli Solar energy company BrightSource is the child, but the real father of solar thermal technology. SEC filings show BrightSource Energy Inc has raised $122.5 million in its fifth round of...
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BrightSource Energy Makes Gigantic Bet on 750 MW Solar Project
BrightSource Energy is making a big bet on CSP while others switch to PV The third huge US solar project from BrightSource Energy is its largest yet. At a whopping 750 MW it is the size of three or...
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Newton Becker, a Bright Source for Solar Thermal Energy, Dies at 83
Considered by some as the father of solar thermal electricity generation, Newton Becker, was the founding investor and Chairman of the Board of Luz International – the company that went on to become...
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AORA’s Solar Sun Tulip Says Ola Sol in Spain
With a 35 meter high sun-ray collection tower and about 50 mirrors positioned to direct the sun, Israel’s AORA is about to flip the switch on its latest solar power plant in Spain. The company created...
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Israel’s BrightSource Still Private After IPO Withdrawal
Concentrated solar power company BrightSource doesn’t wear its Israeli identity on its sleeve. “We’re a U.S. company with Israeli engineering, not an Israeli company. It’s a nuance but important to...
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It’s California or Bust for Better Place’s eTaxis
The Better Place electric transportation company was founded in California’s silicon valley, not far from where the Tesla electric car company began. But while Tesla and Chevy’s Volt electric cars...
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Chaim Weizmann’s Fermentation Invention Used for Biofuel Production in USA
A century-old fermentation process to transform plant material into a propellant, could eventually replace gasoline. In 1914, thirty-five years before Chaim Weizmann (pictured center beside Einstein)...
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Energy Storage Super Capacitors Bottle Energy in New Breakthrough
UCLA and Egyptian scientist accidentally find a new way to bottle stored energy. This missing link for solar energy, hydro and electric cars could be a fast, tiny, biodegradable battery Penicillin,...
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Last Call for Israeli Clean Tech Companies: Meet Dream Teams In California
If you were an aspiring actor, it would be like getting an invitation to a wine and cheese Hollywood party with the industry’s top directors. Or an aspiring chef, getting some in-person training with...
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10 Israeli Clean Tech Companies Head to California
Designer Energy, a biofuel company, will be one of the 10 lucky Israeli companies to meet dream investors and strategic partners in California later this month. Looking for investment deals and...
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BrightSource Prepares for NASDAQ IPO
Set to power 1.4 million US homes, the Israeli solar energy company is headed for a public offering, business papers speculate. The American economy may be in the gutter, but it could be that big crash...
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Global Investment Plummet Hits Israeli Cleantech Companies… Except...
A slow recovery in the global cleantech sector has left many Israeli companies without VC funding and media coverage, while BrightSource Energy and Ormat Technologies continue to thrive. The decrease...
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First Transit Implements GreenRoad Technology
GreenRoad’s founder and Chief of Safety Hod Fleishman is leaving the company. Is Google his next destination? Fresh off making the “Global Cleantech 100″ Guardian List, Israel’s GreenRoad announced...
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BrightSource & Solar Millennium Accused of Building on Sacred Indian Sites
Will your solar energy be haunted? We pushed and pushed, and finally got what we asked for: non carbon-based energy. After years of weaving through red tape, the Israeli company BrightSource Energy...
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BrightSource NRG Team Up to Break Ground on World’s Largest Thermal Solar Plant
Endorsed by Obama, BrightSource as a leading solar energy innovator. The company broke ground this week. California’s solar energy future is looking to become a lot brighter: an agreement was just made...
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Dear Global Clean Energy Sector, Please Truth-Bomb the US Voter!
Susan appeals to the Middle East and world to look to the “empty” US states to push clean energy agenda. The whole world and generations into the future will suffer because the US is unable to pass...
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New Apple Headquarters To Be Modeled After Masdar City
What happens when Norman Foster and Steve Jobs get together? The City of Apple, of course. Recently my macbook perished on the coast of Kenya. It was a terrible moment. All the images, music and words...
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Platform For Architecture & Research: This Is How To Build In The Desert
Notice that there are no lush gardens? No towers of glass? This is how to build in the desert. Modern humans have always wanted to make their presence known, from the earliest cave drawings to opulent...
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