Interview to Ana Aguado, CEO of Friends of the Supergrid on europeanvoice.com

      As lobby groups go, the Friends of the Supergrid is unusual. Rather than representing an industrial sector or a social constituency, its aim is to realise one specific project: the creation of a pan-European, high-voltage transmission network that will improve the distribution of electricity and make it possible to integrate large-scale renewable energy into [...]

STOP VIVISECTION: one million signatures to stop useless medical experimentation on animals

Dear friends,   STOP VIVISECTION gives european citizens the opportunity to say NO to animal experimentation and urge the European Union to take ...

Carbon Market Watch: Doha decisions on the Kyoto surplus explained

  At COP 18 in Doha at the end of 2012, Parties decided how to deal with the large surplus of ...

Ten Urgent Reasons to Reject Nuclear Power Now – Jim McCluskey on truth-out.org

  Many citizens do not want nuclear power. They know it is both far too dangerous and far too expensive. UK ...

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: “The War on Green Jobs Hurts Us All”

by Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins for The Huffington Post   It's hard to imagine why anyone in this country would fail to get behind a sector like ...

Overlook on Indian solar sector: the country is losing ground while China and Japan run fast

  The recent takeover of the well-known German solar cell manufacturer, Q-Cells, by a less-known South Korean company, Hanwha, is symbolic ...

WHEC2012 Mr. Jeremy Rifkin Presentation Part1 – Part2 – Part3

Dear Friends,   Recently, Jeremy Rifkin had the honor of presenting before 1,100 delegates and representatives from more than 50 countries, who ...

Angelo Consoli at Sustainable Energy Week Conference – Brussels 19/06/2012

  18/06/2012   CETRI-TIRES's President Angelo Consoli will bring tomorrow the vision of Third Industrial Revolution to the Sustainable Energy Week, in Brussels, ...

Mission Growth Conference – Europe at the Lead of the New Industrial Revolution – Brussels, May 29th 2012

    25/05/2012 Ways for a radical reshape of European industry to make it robust, sustainable, and growth-oriented will be discussed a high level conference ...

Jeremy Rifkin and Angelo Consoli participate to Econohock – Lier, Belgium 15/05/2012

Jeremy Rifkin will take part as a keynote speaker to Econoshock, the convention organized in Lier, Belgium by Econopolis. 

EcoAP – Eco Innovation Action Plan – Forum in Amsterdam 25th-26th April

24/04/2012   The President of CETRI-TIRES Angelo Consoli will bring the vision of the Construction sector as one of the pillars of ...

Matt Laherty from CEO Roundtable for TIR talks about integration among Domotic Technology, PV energy and smart grids on Huffington Post

  04/10/2011   After the presentation on Huffington Post of Jeremy Rifkin's new book, "The Third Industrial Revolution", of which we have already ...


2015 Toyota fuel cell vehicle will cost between $50,000 and $100,000

  The cost of a completed hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is 1/20th of what it was when current prototypes were being ...


Hydrogen-powered passenger boat takes to Bristol’s waters

  Via bbc.co.uk A hydrogen-powered passenger boat has begun operating in Bristol's harbour. Commissioned for the city council's Green Capital initiative, Hydrogenesis ...


About Suntech’s crackdown: What’s happening to the PV industry? – by Peter Marchl

  In the press we could read about new developments in the Chinese photovoltaic industry: Suntech, the biggest Chinese producer, is ...


Jeremy Rifkin at the Supergrid 2013 Conference : “The Internet of Energy is inevitable”

  Jeremy Rifkin, the american economist and thinker born in Colorado, author of several books, the first one written 40 years ...


European Single Market for Gas & Electricity: Making the EU Internal Energy Market Work

  EU Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger and his staff organized the Second Conference (here a report of the first one, held in 2011) ...


The beginning of the end for centralised generation? The “solar revolution” is making traditional generation unprofitable

  On May 17, 2010, E.ON, the biggest electricity utility in Germany, opened a brand new 860MW combined cycle gas-fired power ...


GlobalData’s Jonathan Lane: “The EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive is a hammer blow for Smart Metering in Europe”

  In October 2012, the European Parliament approved the hotly debated Energy Efficiency Directive. The document introduces specific energy saving measures ...


Hyundai Fuel Cell SUV iX35 to be presented to the upcoming Geneva Motor Show – Nino Marchetti on earthtechling.com

  Has Hyundai won the race to get the first hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle into assembly line production? They seem ...


Bill Emmott on The Times: “Beppe Grillo’s success should send shockwaves across Europe. Angry Voters want a new, positive vision”

  Bill Emmott, former editor of the Economist and co-writer with the Italian Annalisa Piras of the docu-movie Girlfriend in a Coma gives ...


Hydrogen-powered cars: The future, finally

  Our correspondent Byron McCormick signaled this interesting article appeared in The Economist that focuses on the recently formed cooperation partnerships among car ...


Mike Silva on Bloomberg: Hyundai’s Fuel Cell Car Drives More Smoothly Than Popular Hybrids

  Like a regular SUV, Hyundai's fuel-cell-powered Tucson lets you cover about 370 miles on a single tank. Its silent power ...


Commission issues action call in Davos – with IT sector and telecoms companies – to close digital skills and jobs gap in Europe

Press release by European Commission - January 25th, 2013 (IP/13/52) Europe faces up to 700.000 unfilled ICT jobs and declining competitiveness.   The ...


Ford, Daimler and now Nissan form a new international group to develop hydrogen for cars

  Nissan Motor has recently joined the already existing Ford-Daimler partnership for the development of hydrogen technologies for the automotive sector.   This once more ...


Happy birthday Mr Rifkin!

  Entropy, Biosphere Politics, "Green" Vote, Beyond Beef, End of Work, Age of Access, Biotech Century, Hydrogen Economy, European Dream, Empathic Civilization, Third ...


Italy under scrutiny by the EU Commission for failing to comply with the rules of the Energy Efficiency in Buildings directive

  Today the Commission sent Reasoned Opinions to Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Portugal, requesting them to notify to the Commission their ...


Digital dumping in developing countries and the problem of e-waste – by Peter Marchl

Today we have achieved the state of a “Technological Society”. All social, technological , political decisions are directly connected to electronic ...


The European dream in times of crisis – Debate with Rifkin and Bhargava in Brussels. 29/11/2012

  The time has come to have a look at the status quo. Has the European dream become an utopia? Is ...


Farewell CDM Watch – Welcome Carbon Market Watch! New initiative expands scope of work

  Brussels, 16 November 2012. Today, CDM Watch was re-launched as Carbon Market Watch to expand its activities for scrutinizing a ...


Beppe Grillo to the Financial Times: I take my inspiration from Stiglitz and Rifkin

  Interviewed by Guy Dinmore after the succesful elections in Sicily, Beppe Grillo mentions the Third Industrial Revolution as his main ...


Four African Teens Create Urine-Powered Energy Generator

  Four Nigerian teens have wowed visitors to Maker Faire Africa by creating a generator that is powered with urine. Using a resource that everyone ...

SOLAR SCHOOL ADOPTIONS

  The Solar School Adoptions Project is dedicated to children and to the Sun, both inexhaustible sources of life, light, warmth ...