Green power player
Who’s the most powerful person in the world of green business? It might be Jeff Immelt, ceo of General Electric, with its far-reaching eco-magination iniative. It might be Lee Scott, ceo of Wal-Mart,...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi’s amazing clean energy bet
Strange, isn’t it, that the biggest, most ambitious, most expensive clean energy project in the world, a zero-carbon, zero-waste new city called Masdar City, is going up in the oil-rich Abu Dhabi? Then...
View ArticleSheikh it up, baby!
“You’ve got one of the oil capitals of the world taking a strong interest in renewable energy,” Tony Blair said. “It’s quite impressive to see.” Yes, it’s impressive. Blair, the former British prime...
View ArticleCH2M Hill: Engineering big changes
You can tell by its name that CH2M Hill, an engineering, design and construction firm based outside of Denver, is not a company driven by marketing. Indeed, there’s not much that’s glamorous about CH2M...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi: oil today, green tomorrow?
Abu Dhabi: not quite "green" Whatever you think about the rulers of Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich capital of the United Arab Emirates and host of this week’s World Future Energy Summit, you have to give...
View ArticleMasdar City gets real
This is a plaza in Masdar City, the new “green” city in Abu Dhabi, where I’m enjoying a pleasant, cooling breeze. The breeze is generated by a wind tower, above, which is the centerpiece of the Masdar...
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