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[Eco Periodicals] US offers US$100m for research on renewable power storage: ARPA-E will develop energy efficient cooling technologies and air conditioners for buildings to save energy and reduce GHG emissions and funding will go to research on cooling systems that use refrigerants with low global warming potential and energy-efficient air conditioning systems for warm and humid climates. The development of these technologies will reduce GHG emissions and significantly increase US technological lead in emerging clean energy industries.

[Mochi Blog] Mochi Blog | Steven Chu, “Green” Superhero: Listen to this: in 1997, a certain scientist wrote about his feeling of inadequacy in his first years of college. a global-warming Paul Revere who's also a green-tech Albert Einstein has signaled Obama's desire to put the E back in DOE, to have a first-tier brain reinvent a second-tier agency, to keep his Inaugural Address pledge to “restore science to its rightful place.

[Solar Gadgets Info Everything You Want to know about Solar Products] Green Energy Articles: On March 26,2009 Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced plans to invest $3.2 billion in energy efficient improvements and conservation projects in U.S. cities, counties, states, territories, and Native American tribes. The 2009 Green Inaugural Ball took place in the Donald W.

[Change.org's Stop Global Warming Blog] Obama's Call to Action on Energy, Global Warming | Environment ...: Obama is for energy proposals when over 300 PRIVATE jets flew into Reagan international for the inauguration. an unheard of amount of inefficient carbon foot-prints when they want US to stop using the safer SUVs and ride on our bicycles to work.

[InsWeb's Insurance Blog | Auto, Home, Life, Health, and more] InsWeb's Insurance Blog | Auto, Home, Life, Health, and more: Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change - former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (1993-2001) who will act as a White House-level advisor to coordinate energy-related federal agencies. This is a new role created by the incoming Obama administration.

[Yale Environment 360] As Europe Fiddles, U.S. May Take Lead on Climate Change by Fred ...: If Obama goes for a smart super-grid, you can almost guarantee that Merkel and her fellow Europeans will suddenly get more enthusiastic about a super-grid scheme quietly being promoted there to hook up to solar energy from the Sahara desert. A grander version would also tap geothermal energy from Iceland, hydropower from Scandinavia, and wind power from the North Sea.

[People - Latest] Mark Ginsberg on Zero Energy Communities through Clean Energy ...: Mark described how the head of MIT had told President Obama when he was visiting the institution about its research projects: microdots on windows to harness solar power (a nano capability), advanced battery and storage and non-food biofuel generation. Wind turbines, said Mark, are improving with lightweight materials harnessing greater wind from lower speeds, and he is hopeful: 20% of energy sources would come from wind, he opined, up from few percentages now.

[Greenhoof] Greenhoof » Blog Archive » Energy Secretary Chu Fields Questions ...: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, fresh from the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, was the final and perhaps most anticipated speaker at last week’s ECO:nomics conference. Throughout the conference, regulatory uncertainty had been the greatest complaint of energy execs and venture capitalists alike.

[Switchboard, from NRDC ”º Frances Beinecke's Blog] Switchboard, from NRDC :: Frances Beinecke's Blog :: Now Let's Get ...: Like JFK, he selected “the best and brightest.” Many of Obama’s Cabinet selections are leading academic scholars and veteran policy-makers from the Clinton Administration. Echoing famed Depression-era economist Keynes, Obama’s economic team has wisely advised him to create at least 3.5 million jobs to “prime the pump.” This is the largest American jobs creation plan since FDR’s New Deal put Americans back to work in the Thirties.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Obama's Science Team ...: Among those who will be surrounding him are a physicist who has won a Nobel Prize (Steven Chu), a physicist and top expert on global warming who will be his top science adviser in the White House (John Holdren), a chemical engineer who has won acclaim for as an environmental leader in New Jersey (Lisa Jackson), a marine biologist is a leading expert on the impact of global warming on the oceans (Jane Lubchenco),. a polymath who heads up one of the most important genome projects in the country (Eric Lander), and a biologist who won a Nobel prize in medicine (Varmus).

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] John Holdren to be Obama's Science Advisor - Hit & Run : Reason ...: Economists, in contrast, tend to receive little or no trainingin the physical and natural sciences (Colander and Klamer 1987).Few explore the natural world on their own, and few appreciate theextreme sensitivity of organisms -- including those upon whichhumanity depends for food, materials, pharmaceuticals, and freeecosystem services -- to seemingly small changes in environmentalconditions. Most treat economic systems as though they werecompletely disconnected from the planet's basic life supportsystems.

[CNET News.com | Tech news blog - Category: Science] Vegas adds Ford hydrogen buses to fleet | News Blog - CNET News: Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our world rotating. A journalist who divides her time between the United States and the United Kingdom, Lombardi has written about technology for the sites of The New York Times, CNET, USA Today, MSN, ZDNet, Silicon.com, and GameSpot.

[ArtsBeat] Venice Biennale: Flashing Lights - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com: Chu also has a piece up, or maybe down, at the New Museum’s inaugural triennial in New York right now: he has hired women to sleep, one at a time and with the aid of medication, on a bed in the center of a gallery for the run of the show.)

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