Smart grid: '440 million new hackable points'
Today, a saboteur can turn off your power by climbing a utility pole. With the smart grid, someone could interrupt your service--and that of your whole city--from China. What are utilities doing to protect us? We asked Lockheed Martin. Read the full story
Transportation surges past smart grid in Q3 2010 cleantech investment
Transportation topped smart grid and biofuels in cleantech investment in the third quarter of 2010, according to a new report. Here's a breakdown. Read the full story
Survey: Municipalities support sustainability strategy in principle, not practice
Energy conservation is a key priority for 70 percent of respondents, but only 29 percent of local communities have any sort of sustainability plan. Read the full story
GMO trees for sequestering more carbon?
Scientists propose genetically engineering trees to absorb and store more carbon, and to make better biofuels. The problem? Many. Read the full story
Work to develop a beer that can be consumed in space continues. Read the full story
Obama administration digs into China's 'rare earth' monopoly
The Obama administration and Congress are seeking to diversify the global supply chains of rare earth ores used in the development of clean energy. Read the full story
Piezoelectric materials can generate current and do math
Georgia Tech researchers are creating a new type of material that might one day be used to spy and monitor environmental threats. Read the full story
City dwellers develop genes to fight off disease
British researchers discover genes that might explain disease resistance around the world. This shows a perfect case of evolution. Read the full story
Cisco's Ed Richards: Without automation, buildings 'running wild'
Seventy percent of the buildings in North America aren't automated. They're running wild, according to Cisco smart buildings chief Ed Richards. Read the full story
Parisians have learned that a little tastes better than a lot, that how you eat matters more than how much, and that you don't have to diet if you don't gain the weight in the first place. Read the full story
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