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Tina Casey specializes in military and corporate sustainability, advanced technology, emerging materials, biofuels, and water and wastewater issues. Tina’s articles are reposted frequently on Reuters, Scientific American, and many other sites. You can also follow her on Twitter @TinaMCasey and Google+.
Holland, Michigan is poised to be the western anchor for a web of advanced energy storage (aka battery) manufacturing facilities that will serve the surging electric vehicle market. In ten years, the new plants are expected to bring 62,000 new jobs to the middle chunk of the state - a welcome relief for cities like [...]
In yet another sign of the rapidly developing electric vehicle market, Korea-based CT&T has reached a milestone in its plans to manufacture its all-electric eZONE passenger car in the U.S. Last fall the company announced that it would build a series of factories in the U.S. based on its proprietary regional assembly and sales model, [...]
General Motors is on an all-out push to ensure that its new Chevy Volt becomes the electric car of the mainstream U.S. market. On July 1 the company launched a cross country tour introducing American communities to the car from Austin, Texas to New York, New York. It’s pretty clear that the symbolism-freighted trip is [...]
In a classic case of sustainability layering that borders on downright slathering, the City of Tsukuba in Japan is set to test-host a new car sharing system using electric vehicles that are powered almost exclusively by solar energy. According to a recent report on the solar electric car sharing plan, the partnership involves the Mazda2 [...]
A123 Systems is bringing more green jobs to Michigan with a gigantic new 300,000 square foot factory for its lithium-ion batteries, thanks to a whopping $249 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The move follows a decision a few years back by A123 to start manufacturing in China. As profiled in the LA [...]
Fresh on the heels of recent contracts with the U.S. Army and NASA for large format lithium-ion batteries, green startup International Battery has announced another $35 million in financing for its manufacturing, development and marketing operations. The move marks another step forward for more green jobs in IB’s home base of Allentown, Pennsylvania — one of [...]
Algae biofuel pioneer OriginOil, Inc. has come up with a new, more efficient design for growing algae for biofuel, using the kind of microalgae that blooms naturally in ponds. With the help of lenses that channel solar radiation within layers of algae, the new system greatly reduces the amount of pond acreage needed to grow [...]
Carbon Green, Inc., a tire recycling company with administrative offices in Canada, is pushing into the tire recycling market with a rather intriguing entry: a tire recycling method based on pyrolysis. The company has been gearing up to process about 800,000 tires in the first year of operation for its new recycling plant in Cyprus. [...]
