Putting Canada on Track
The keys to a bioenergy-rich future...[ Details ]

Roundtable Reveals International Biofuel Standard
The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) has gathered environmentalists, industry leaders, and university researchers to develop the first international standard for biofuel production...[ Details ]

Bioenergy: From Words to Action
CANBIO's Annual Bioenergy Conference, Trade Show and Study Tour October 6-8, Ottawa, Canada...[ Details ]

Texas Company Patents Biomass Biofuel Technology
Byogy Renewables Inc., a Texas company, has licensed the production of what it says is the Holy Grail of biofuel and will open a plant in the near future to create 95-octane gasoline from biomass...[ Details ]

Ontario - Forest Biofibre Policy To Promote Clean Energy And Innovation
Ontario has a new policy to guide the allocation and use of previously unused trees and tree parts that could spur innovation and help to diversify the economy...[ Details ]

Microbes for Off-the-Grid Electricity
A new company is bringing microbial fuel cells to Africa...[ Details ]

Out of Africa: New Concentrating-Solar Tech Inspired by Congo Stint
Morgan Solar claims its new solar concentrator is simpler – and up to four times cheaper. The company has raised $1.5M and plans to raise an additional $10M to $12M to reach production. It also plans to install its first test panel this month...[ Details ]

GE reshapes the future of wind power
General Electric's wind energy division is trying to find a "Goldilocks" turbine design, one that's not too big and not too small...[ Details ]

Ontario - Competition gets underway for 500 more megawatts of renewable power projects
"Faster, stronger, cleaner" is the theme as Ontario sets the stage for world-class renewable energy developers to bid on 500 more megawatts of contracts for new green energy supply...[ Details ]

Grabbing infrared energy with nanoantennas
Developed at the Idaho National Laboratory, the technology could lead to solar power that works at night...[ Details ]

Google.org invests more than $10 million in breakthrough geothermal energy technology
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) could supply thousands of times US energy needs...[ Details ]

Ontarians hot for geothermal heating systems
But industry group warns of fly-by-night contractors involved in ground-source retrofits...[ Details ]

What's in store for wind?
Wind energy has its problems. It only comes when the wind blows.This reality - this Achilles' heel - makes wind a nuisance in the eyes of power-system operators, who have the challenge of trying to balance electricity supply and demand on the grid...[ Details ]

New Plants Convert Waste Pipeline Heat Into Clean Electricity
Pristine Power Inc. and ENMAX Green Power Inc. today announced that commercial operations have started at their jointly owned Enpower 5 MW Energy Recovery Generation (ERG) project in British Columbia under the terms of a 20-year electricity purchase agreement with BC Hydro...[ Details ]

Paintless Car Saves Energy
If a stone resistant film can be applied to a few small areas why not the same film to protect a whole car? And why only in clear plastic? Why not in colors?...[ Details ]

Bacteria Found That Cleans Up Arsenic Contamination
Scientists studying arsenic pollution have discovered a living sensor that can spot contamination. They have also discovered new bacteria that can clean up arsenic spills even in previously untreatable cold areas...[ Details ]

Green Catalysts Provide Promise For Cleaning Toxins And Pollutants
Research by the Collins group at Carnegie Mellon has shown that Fe-TAMLs have enormous potential to provide clean and safe alternatives to existing industrial practices and provide ways to remediate other pressing environmental problems that currently lack solutions...[ Details ]

Device could boost fuel efficiency
Fuel efficiency could be boosted using a chip that monitors the driver's behaviour, according to a Galway telematics company...[ Details ]

Nanofilter's electropotential eliminates contaminants
Tiny but powerful aluminum-oxide-based fibers could combat threats to human health by filtering out even tinier microbes...[ Details ]

Advanced Low Energy Water Treatment System Tested for Major US Environmental Scheme
UVPS Environmental in collaboration with Filter Clear have successfully completed field trials in the USA of an advanced water treatment system. Known as "Sapphire-Clear^TM", it effectively destroys contaminants in low visibility water, using less energy than conventional methods...[ Details ]

OCETA & RIC Centre to kick-off Growing Your Business Breakfast Series September 16th
"Growing Your Business" is a speaker series of 10 consecutive monthly breakfast events to help entrepreneurs fast track commercialization...[ Details ]

Major companies agree to make anti-pollution patents public
Companies are usually zealous in guarding their technology, but a number of major corporations, hoping to be seen to be doing good for the environment, are placing in the public domain patents they've developed to fight pollution...[ Details ]

The SD Tech Fund^TM is accepting Statements of Interest from September 3 to October 22, 2008
SDTC's SD Tech Fund^TM invests in late-stage development and pre-commercial demonstration of clean technologies by Canadian companies...[ Details ]