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 There is an estimated 13 billion plastic bottles that are thrown away each year. IBM & Stanford may have a solution to this problem.

There is a video airing on our main site Green Energy TV that unveils the Green Chemistry breakthrough by IBM & Stanford for Environmentally Sustainable Plastics.

Here's a link to the video: http://greenenergytv.com/Watch.aspx?v=ec70377dc013958e 

 There's an Online Learning Opportunity for Entrepreneurs, at http://elientrepreneur.com/ 

The have a course titled: Mindset: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial IQ

This is the first in a series of online learning programs that enable aspiring entrepreneurs to tap directly into the knowledge and experience gathered from some of today’s most successful entrepreneurs such as:

• Craigslist founder Craig Newmark
• E-Myth author Michael Gerber
• Inc 500 winner Chuck Halberg
• Pulitzer nominee Clifton Taulbert
• Emmy winner Jim Stovall
• Serial inventor John Osher

You can sign up today and begin learning in a green way, without having to get in your car and driving to school, etc. Check out this awesome course at http://elientrepreneur.com/enroll.html  -Dave Myers, Guest Blogger for Green Energy TV

Benefits of Attracting Birds

• Soil conservation – some plants used in landscaping can help to prevent soil erosion
• Increased wildlife populations – various species of birds will flock to your garden
• Natural insect control – birds eat insects so naturally the more birds you have the better insect control you will have in your garden
• Educational opportunities – children and adults alike will have the opportunity to view and learn about many different types of birds and plants
• Food production – many of the plants that attract birds also produce foods that humans can eat

• Bird Feeders - Bird feeders are one of the easiest and least expensive elements that you can add to your garden to attract birds. You can use a feeder that hangs from a tree or you could opt for a free standing feeder. By using several different kinds of bird seed you can attract various types of birds. You may attract birds such as sparrows, robins, and doves.
• Bird Friendly Plants - Certain types of plants will attract birds to your garden. Some plants will be a place of shelter for the birds while others will provide a haven for mating and nesting. Plants such as berry trees will be a food source for birds. Plants that are bird friendly include things such as: creeping vines, holly bushes, butterfly bushes, larkspur, and evening primrose. Flowers that are nectar producing and brightly colored attract birds such as hummingbirds.
• Water Features - Water features not only provide a place from which the birds can drink or in which they can bathe, but water features will also provide aesthetic appeal to your garden. Small fountains, bird baths, or a dish of water on the ground will all be sufficient water features.

Emma Spivey, Guest Blogger for Green Energy TV 

About the Author

Emma Spivey writes for Solar fountains, her personal hobby blog focused on tips to design  

an eco-friendly garden to protect wild fauna (mostly birds).

 There's a fast, tough looking hybrid vehicle out there for sport's car enthusiasts. It's the new Porsche 918 Spyder and its a plug-in electric car.

How fast is this car? For starters, it can do 0-60 MPH in 3.2 seconds and can reach top speeds of 198 MPH.

The Spyder can get 78 Miles per gallon, and run for 16 miles on electric only.

Check out the Porsche 918 Spyder video below:



Dave Michaels, Guest Blogger for Green Energy TV

 Honda unveiled the 3R-C, which is a three wheeled battery electric model.

The vehicle is for a single occupant vehicle for zero emission commuting. The two-door EV-N concept is envisioned with a Lithium ion battery pack, and small electric motor for predominantly urban use.

This model incorporates Honda's own solar panels in to the roof, to charge the car while it is parked.

Check out this cool video showing the 3R-C 

 Bloom Energy unveiled the "Bloom Box", and have been swarmed by press, politicians and investors.

Bloom Energy is a Silicon Valley startup, that is looking to put power plants in people's back yards and take you off the electrical grid. The Bloom Box is a fuel-cell technology that would allow homes and businesses to generate their own electricity.

What Major corporations are already using Bloom Box? Wal-Mart, FedEx, Staples, Google, and eBay.

Check out the Bloom Box video and see how it works:

 Google invested in a couple solar energy companies over the last few years. One of the companies is called eSolar and the other is BrightSource.

Google invested in both these companies because they have the potential to reduce the cost of Solar Energy by 50% or more. 

The videos for both of these companies showing their energy innovations, green inventions and the way they both define solar energy can be seen on our main site.

• eSolar video http://greenenergytv.com/Watch.aspx?v=1333254994  
• BrightSource video http://greenenergytv.com/Watch.aspx?v=1608810738 

 There's a whole new way to look at Sustainability Programs and certified organic products when it comes to farming.

There is an entrepreneur/inventor named Colle Davis who may have a solution for millions of people around the world when it comes to food.

You will see in the video below that this portable farm does not require you to add soil, pesticides, or even water to grow crops. 

Is it possible in a 6x8 ft garden to produce over 100 pounds of fish and 400 vegetables a year?

Watch the video below and find out:

We will continue to focus on the best green companies, green inventions, energy innovations and more. Stay Green!

 In a press release, Ben & Jerry’s announced its commitment to go fully Fair Trade across its entire global flavor portfolio. From Cherry Garcia to Chocolate Fudge Brownie, all of the flavors in all of the countries where Ben & Jerry’s is sold will be converted to Fair Trade Certified™ ingredients by the end of 2013.Future posts will focus on Sustainability Programs, Best Green Companies, Energy Innovations, Certified Organic Products, green jobs and more! - Stay Green....

 There are a lot of companies going green and best green companies, but today's post is featuring a very cool company who is making Playgrounds out of used Milk Cartons.

Green Energy TV  gave Progressive Design Playgrounds the Two Green Thumbs Up Award for their green inventions and eco friendly products. They are also creating green jobs, and not only a place for kids to play, but also providing Environmental Education for for Children. 

Check out the video below:

 Applied Materials recently announced its solar fab2farm model offering a blueprint for affordable clean energy and local economic development.  

Below are some highlights about Applied’s solar fab2farm model:

• The fab2farm model  is a solar deployment model that links the complete utility-scale solar ecosystem—from the manufacturing of the panels, to the building of the solar farm, to the local community—to drive down the cost of solar electricity, while generating billions of dollars in economic development. 
• Fab2farm would locate an Applied Materials SunFab™ manufacturing factory in communities across the U.S., with the intent of placing the panels produced by that factory directly into utility-owned projects. 

 In Michigan, DTE Energy & the University of Michigan put on a Clean Energy Prize Competition for students.

Currently, 8 Teams have advanced to the Semi-finals, and according to a press release from DTE Energy, the new business ideas range from:

• A system to enhance electric vehicle batteries
• A new method to produce a gas used in solar cell production
• Plans for turning food waste into fuel and more!

What do the students have to do? Teams have to develop business plans that promise to move a new, clean-energy technology from the laboratory to the market place.

How much $ is at stake? 1st Prize $50,000 2nd Place gets $25,000  3rd Place - $10,000 and 4th Place $7,000.

Below is what each of the 8 Teams are doing:

• Advanced Battery Control: offers a proprietary smart battery management system, which will radically enhance battery utilization in electric vehicles.
• Carbon Perks: a service that motivates people to incorporate energy efficient practices into their lifestyles while helping utilities reduce the costs of providing peak power.
• Enertia: brings to market a multiple patent-pending innovation that will harness ambient kinetic energy and extend the lifetime of wireless electronic devices tenfold, while at the same time replacing toxic electrochemical batteries.
• Food Waste Energy: manufactures and installs anaerobic biodigestors that help restaurants save energy and waste disposal costs by producing natural gas from food waste on site.
• Green Silane: produces silane gas for customers on-site in a manner that is flexible, low-cost, and environmentally benign, revolutionizing the supply chain for this critical input to semiconductor, flat-screen display and photovoltaic panel production.
• Ice Mitigating Systems: developed a two-fold approach to counter the effects of ice on offshore wind turbines. The solution, which addresses the turbine blades and its structural foundation, will be licensed to manufacturers and the company will provide the necessary consulting services to implement these systems.
• ReGenerate: manufactures and leases modular anaerobic digestors to institutional food service operators, transforming food waste discards into on-site renewable energy as well as nutrient-rich fertilizer products that will be cobranded and sold through retail outlets.
• Smart Energy Inc.: providing the bridge between the Smart Grid and consumers, empowering consumers with control over their energy usage and appliances.

Good luck to everyone! - Mike D., University Michigan School, & Guest Blogger for Green Energy TV

The MIT Clean Energy Prize was established in 2007 to encourage innovation in the energy space, specifically with regard to clean energy.

Forbes Magazine recently named this "The Biggest Small Business Competitions".

The winner gets $200,000 and there has been millions of dollars in follow up funding and investments to past winners. 

Who Can Apply? This is open to all U.S. university graduate and undergraduate students, over 100 teams are expected to compete in five energy tracks:

• energy efficiency and infrastructure
• renewables
• clean non-renewables
• transportation
• deployment (clean energy services or processes).

The deadline for entering is February 25th, so if you have an idea, you better get moving! Good Luck. - Scot, MIT Undergrad & Guest Blogger for Green Energy TV

We often look at ways to save on fuel, alternative fuel ideas, tire pressure, hybrid electric cars, etc. And at the same time, we overlook additional ways to save fuel, time and money. Well, you can do this with E-ZPass.

What is E-ZPass? E-ZPass is an electronic toll collection system which takes cash, coins and toll tickets out of the toll collection process. Instead, drivers prepay tolls and attach a small electronic device to their vehicles. Tolls are automatically calculated and deducted from the prepaid accounts as E-ZPass customers pass through the toll lanes.


Green Energy TV gave E-ZPass the Two Green Thumbs Up Award and here's why:

• E-ZPass can process 250 to 300 percent more vehicles per lane, thus reducing toll plaza delays and traffic congestion.
• E-ZPass helps to reduce congestion and reduce auto emissions.
• E-ZPass helps reduce fuel consumption.
   

Check out their site for more information: http://www.ezpass.com/index.html 

We have heard many "green" speeches, but how green is Nuclear Power? Many people talk about Obama Alternative Energy, but usually that is or has to deal with green and renewable or alternative energy.

Nuclear power is not as safe as solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy, etc. If there is a leak in a nuclear power plant, there are huge problems and negative environmental effects. If a solar panel breaks, you sweep it up, or if a wind turbine falls or breaks down, you replace it.

Nuclear power may be efficient and used in France and many other countries, but if something breaks, the effects are catastrophic.  - Caleb Morgan, Guest Blogger for Green Energy TV.

Are you familiar with a cloud computing environment to more easily allow professors around the world to incorporate technology into their curricula? Listen up Professors...

We know about globalization, but how are we preparing our future leaders and younger generation to prepare themselves to be ready to connect to the rest of the world.

There are more Entrepreneurship Programs opening up across the US and the world, and so how are we preparing them to be Global Entrepreneurs?

IBM has a solution, don't they always...This is a really cool video about how IBM has already helped over 200 schools. The video airing on Green Energy TV is titled: Smarter Students for a Smarter Planet

Check it out - http://greenenergytv.com/Watch.aspx?v=68f47cd3374a57b6   -Mark White, Guest Blogger for GreenEnergyTV.com

Future posts: Best Green companies, energy innovation, Sustainability Programs, green inventions, best green companies and new Hybrid Electric rides.

A video was uploaded to Green Energy TV  about China planting 1 Billion Trees in the desert.

The video is titled: Taming the Yellow Dragon

It takes place in Inner Mongolia, China and it focuses on the greatest environmental and ecological threats to sustainable development -- not only to China, but also to the whole North East Asian region.

This eye opening film was Produced by Chris Gelken & Shirley Han Ying. 

Link to the video: http://greenenergytv.com/Watch.aspx?v=ede31d4063d9161c 

The annual Cleantech Forum series returns to San Francisco, February 24-26, 2010 at The Palace Hotel. Cleantech Forum XXVI brings together ~1,000 industry leaders in what is widely recognized as THE cleantech event of the year. When you register, please use the promotion code ptnrSF10 and receive a $200 discount on the registration fee. 

With the theme Taking Cleantech to Scale, the Forum offers opportunities to mingle with global corporate executives, investors, and government leaders who are financing, acquiring, and scaling cleantech. You will hear first-hand accounts from innovative startups, new investment funds and corporations looking for partners. And if you’re looking for funding to start a new business, or for companies to invest in, this is a great place to network.

 Cleantech Forum XXVI speakers include:

Bill Lockyer, California’s 32nd State Treasurer
Philippe Martin, VP of Research and Innovation Sourcing, Veolia Environnement
Go vernor George Pataki, Counsel, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar, Google
Carl Bass, CEO, Autodesk
Stewart Brand, Author, “Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar, Google
Lorie Wigle, General Manager, Intel
Scott Bolick, Vice President, Sustainability, SAP
Chris Smith, Director of Operations, IDS Energy Solutions, Boeing
Jeff Seabright, Vice President of Environment, Coca-Cola
Arlin Wasserman, Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Sodexo
Raj Atluru, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Keat Chuan Yeoh, Assistant Managing Director, Singapore Economic Development Board
Troy Batterberry, Product Manager, Microsoft Hohm
Issam Dairanieh, Technology Principal, BP
James Robb, Sr. VP- Enterprise Planning and Development, Northeast Utilities
And more.

CEOs and Companies presenting at the Cleantech Forum CEO Showcase include:

·         Jeff Bisberg, CEO, Albeo Technologies

·         Kevin Czinger, CEO, Coda Automotive

·         Gary Fromer, Cpower

·         Jay Zoellner, EPS Corporation

·         Frank Ramirez, CEO, Ice Energy

·         Dr. Fatemeh Shirazi, CEO, Microvi Biotech

·         Carlos Perea, CEO, MIOX

·         Jeff Green, CEO, NanoH20

·         Dan Squiller, CEO, PowerGenix

·         Mark E. McGoup, CEO, Pentadyne,

·         Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials

·         Terry Bailey, Soliant

·         Mark Crowley, CEO, SolFocus

For more information on how to join this leading industry event, call +1 (810) 224-4310 or email  info@cleantech.com or go to: http://cleantech.com/sanfranciscoforum  to register and use the promo code ptnrSF10 for a discount.

 

I saw a recent newsletter from the Civic Innovation Lab out of Cleveland, Ohio that one of the companies they funded is offering Low-tech solar panels to developing nations.

The newsletter stated that around the world 1.6 billion people do not have access to electricity. Cleveland-area native Christopher Clark wants to change that.

I have 4 dogs, and I love them. I have been doing a lot of research on behalf of my university and have found some scary info. Did you ever wonder why so many dogs have allergies now and why the rate of cancer in dogs is at an all time high?

More and more dogs get diagnosed with cancer every year. Some experts believe its from the drops used to prevent fleas and ticks since there are some very strong chemical toxins in that medication.

My research is showing that there are other chemical toxins that our dogs are being exposed to that are driving up the number of cancer rates, and number of dogs who now have allergies.

The Answer is right under our pet's nose:

1. Grass - How many people use fertilizer to get the perfect looking lawn now as opposed to how many people used it 30 years ago? Do you know the dangerous chemical toxins that are in lawn fertilizers and our dogs nose is constantly on the grass, sniffing or they are laying in the grass. READ THE BACK LABEL OF YOUR FERTILIZER next time before you apply it to your yard. You can research the ingredients and see the warnings that cause reproduction issues, kills aquatic life, etc. When your dog comes in your home, he/she is bringing those into your house too.
2. Your Home - Unless you use eco friendly products to clean your home, then you and your pet are being exposed to the chemical toxins in the floor, bathroom, and kitchen cleaners. These cleaners are known to cause cancer in lab tests.
3. Food - What is your dog eating? Check out the ingredients on the back of your dog food back and look them up, you will not believe the cancer causing agents that go into your pet's food.

Solutions: Organic lawn care and chemical free lawn care. There are a lot of organic lawn care products out there so you can keep your beautiful green grass without exposing yourself and your pet to the chemical toxins found in leading brand name fertilizers.

You can also switch to using chemical free cleaning products such as Seventh Generation, Shaklee and other eco friendly products. - Mike Stanford, Guest Blogger for Green Energy TV.