What has happened to green tech investments?

Trends published at the end of last week by the Cleantech Group, a global research firm, show a serious drop off in green tech investments in the third quarter of this year. The decline is a surprising devi... Read more >

Over the past month in the blogosphere we’ve seen increasing attention paid to our popular campaign for Facebook to choose renewables not coal, and the coverage has become quite a game of “he said, she said”.

The onslaught of commentary ignited when ou... Read more >

Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook. His Facebook profile doesn’t list his relationship status, but if it did, it might say “in a relationship with coal”.

Everyone has had a friend in a destructive relationship — a relationship that you just know ... Read more >

Yesterday, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg about the social network's coal use. The full letter was posted on this blog, and in the blog's comments section a Facebook representative wrote a... Read more >

We've been talking a lot about Facebook lately. We were alarmed in January by the company's announcement that it would build a coal-powered data center in Prineville, Oregon. So we started a little group to ask the company not to use dirty energy t... Read more >

Last Friday night, a Greenpeace supporter from just outside Helsinki, Finland became the 500,000th person to join our facebook coal campaign. People from all over the world continue to join on our website (sign up if you haven't already) and on face... Read more >

I live in San Francisco, and yesterday I discovered that my local market has stopped selling Gulf Coast seafood. Before BP’s deep sea oil rig exploded and sunk off the coast of Louisiana, the shop stocked shrimp and blue crab, which make up a ... Read more >

Wow! Almost half a million Facebook users have asked Facebook to use 100% renewable energy to power their profiles. The Facebook page that was created to communicate this message directly to the company on the platform it knows best — it’s own — has d... Read more >

Google showed us again on Tuesday why it tops our ranking of IT companies’ political policy efforts on the Cool IT Leaderboard. At an event hosted at Google’s headquarters, the company’s Green Energy Czar, Bill Weihl, expressed how critical the preser... Read more >

Facebook has added insult to injury in an ongoing controversy over its soon-to-be primarily coal-powered data center, currently under construction in Prineville, Oregon. The company announced Friday that it will more than double the size of its data s... Read more >

Can Competition Between IT Companies Stop Climate Change?

Competition in the tech industry is notoriously intense. It’s what has driven unparalleled iteration and innovation, spectacular feats of design and function, and the transformation of seemin... Read more >

On June 9th, Greenpeace and the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) released Energy [R]evolution, a blueprint detailing how we can phase out fossil fuels and transition to a renewable energy future before it’s to... Read more >

They can all be used to power the cloud.

A sudden burst of concepts for renewably powered data centers has appeared in tech news lately. Part school science project and part Apollo Project, ideas for how to get data centers to run on renewable energy... Read more >

In January, Bill Gates published an argument about solving climate change titled “Why We Need Innovation, Not Just Insulation”. As you may have guessed, Gates’ point is that energy efficiency alone will not achieve us the emissions cuts scientists s... Read more >

There are 50 million computer servers in the world today.  And a recent report by BusinessWeek says that, of the 8 million new servers added each year, 50% are bound for data centers. That’s 4 million additional servers per year that will be used to s... Read more >