Jim Carroll: 3 Ways Energy Innovation Will Heat Up in 2016
From advances in renewables to data-driven efficiencies and empowered consumers, 2016 offers the opportunity to shape the future of energy. In my view, 2016 will prove to be a watershed year when it...
View ArticleKevin Moss and Debora Frodl: Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water...
The water-energy nexus presents a growing challenge for many parts of the world. We need collaboration among the public and private sector to come up with creative solutions to resource scarcity. Few...
View ArticleJay Rogers: Why Making Things Locally Is The Key to Sustainable Manufacturing
For manufacturing to benefit both consumers and the planet, it must be truly sustainable. Local manufacturing is leading the way. The concept of sustainable manufacturing is difficult to pin down. To...
View ArticleInaction On Climate Change Is Costing Us Lives And Money
Peter LaPuma, professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University, sits down with GE Reports to discuss society’s “inevitable transition to cleaner energy sources,” and...
View ArticleSolving The Energy Equation: How Business And The Environment Can Thrive...
In about two decades, companies and governments will invest between $7 trillion and $11 trillion in renewable energy. Carlos Pascual, senior vice president at IHS, Ecomagination Advisory Board member...
View ArticleThe Time To Invent The Technologies That Will Power Our Future Is Now
The extent to which we support energy innovation today will determine the world our children and grandchildren inherit in 2050. It takes 30 years or more to successfully commercialize and deploy...
View ArticleDirty Jobs: How Baltimore’s ‘Mr. Trash Wheel’ Collected 1 Million Pounds of...
Mr. Trash Wheel— the world’s first sustainably-powered trash collector— has removed over 9 million cigarette butts, nearly 500,000 polystyrene containers and close to 400,000 plastic bottles from...
View Article5 Ways Companies Can Weave Sustainability Into Their DNA
Back in 2005, wind power, solar energy and electric vehicles were subscale technologies when GE launched Ecomagination, which strives to improve business and environmental performance, all while...
View ArticleQantas and GE on the flight path to sustainability
Two innovative corporations are better, bigger and more influential in solving global problems than one. GE today became a foundation partner in the Qantas Future Planet Partnership, which aims to both...
View ArticleJust Chilling: This British Company Found A Cool Way To Store Energy
In an industrial town a few miles outside of Manchester, England, two steely gray tanks stand 55 feet high. While they might look like part of a newfangled factory — or perhaps a soaring tribute to one...
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