Business & Economics
Communities in Burlington, NC are seeing a lot of new buildings sprout up in their communities, but why are so many other buildings left abandoned? See how one community is trying to deal with an excess of space.
If you could exchange your F-150's current gas engine with a plug-in hybrid engine, would you? Xtreme Power is developing a "bolt-in" system that will swap your engine in less than 2 hours.
National Science Foundation
In an NSF-sponsored project, computer scientists at the University of Utah have developed techniques to reduce the energy consumption of computers associated with large, temporary storage areas, called caches.
The innovation could significantly... Read More
Planet Forward
If cars are polluters, than car plants are even worse, right? But some car makers are going green. Planet Forward GW students Sara Snyder and Bridget Lynn got a close-up view of the new VW plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Watch Our Latest NBR
Planet Forward/GWU
The Volkswagen Plant of Chattanooga announced on December 1st that they are now the most efficient auto manufacturer in the world. See why VW's LEED-Platinum automotive manufacturing plant boasts to be the greenest. Watch
The DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy invests in ideas that could transform our energy mix. Can they make it a competition? Learn about who's winning now!
Elon University
Last summer, I lived in a sustainable treehouse community in Finca, Costa Rica and filmed the experience. As it turns out, I ended up filming a celebrity bulldog named Kimbo Slice. Check out Kimbo's quest!
More videos coming soon!
The George Washington University
Did you know beer could be green? Neither did we.
At first when my partner and I set out to do this project, we thought our innovation was the fact that a local brewery, DC Brau, reused their waste by paying farmers to take it to their farms and... Read More
Planet Forward
THIS WEEK: Holy cow! This week Planet Forward got up close and personal with some Virginia livestock. DC Brau, the first local brewery in D.C. feeds their organic waste to livestock in the Virginia area. Take a look!
How do we protect and efficiently use the water we do have? These researchers in California collected rainwater, that would otherwise be wasted, in wetlands and swales so it could be reclaimed and used in agriculture.