New technology incubator in Hanover County

More businesses and more jobs – that’s the goal of the new Greentech Incubator in Hanover County. The facility, which opened in January, is dedicated to helping energy entrepreneurs jump-start their companies.

New innovative technology incubator in Hanover County

Right now about a dozen people work out of the Dominion Resources Greentech Incubator, but leaders [...]

Dominion Resources Funds Green Tech Incubator

The Dominion Resources GreenTech Incubator (DRGI) seeks to attract clean energy innovators desiring to accelerate the successful growth of their early stage businesses. Each of our Founding Partners is committed to building the alternative, renewable energy sector in Central Virginia by supporting the needs of domestic clean energy entrepreneurs.

DRGI accepts member companies pursuing alternative [...]

Economics of Energy and the Environment Free Online Course

There’s a great website that provides various paid and free courses online called Udemy.

Udemy’s goal is to disrupt and democratize the world of education by enabling anyone to teach and learn online.

Just as blogging democratized the publishing industry (enabling anyone to instantly become a journalist), Udemy seeks to dramatically change education by empowering [...]

Clean Energy Junto Word Cloud

Super Bowl 15,000

Not only is the NFL tackling children’s health issues with its highly visible Play60 campaign, the league is also going after some of the world’s most pressing environmental issues. To my surprise, the NFL Environmental Program has an 18 year history of promoting several large scale projects to address solid waste, material reuse and most [...]

Energy Subsidies – Fossil v. Renewables

A great article by Richard Matthews on the differences in renewable and fossil fuel subsidies and how that reflects upon energy producing options. Obviously the cheaper the fuel, the more likely energy producers will construct those types of energy plants.

Specific mentions:

The IEA estimates that removing fossil fuel consumption subsidies would reduce global carbon-dioxide [...]

Home – A Documentary

Click to watch “Home – A Documentary”

Internationally renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand makes his feature directorial debut with this environmentally conscious documentary produced by Luc Besson, and narrated by Glenn Close.

A Look at Renewable Energy around the World

In my quest to better understand the current state of the renewable energy industry around the globe, I came across the studies of the Ernst & Young Environmental Finance Team. This global research team publishes their findings in a quarterly report and produces the Renewable Energy Attractiveness Index. This index scores the top 40 national [...]

An Argument for Cleaner Fuels from Richard Branson

Entrepreneur Richard Branson gives his take on investing in cleaner fuels for the future in this recent article posted at Entrepreneur.com: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220637