business
Planet Forward Intern/Marymount University
Georgetown's McDonough School of Business recently hosted a Net Impact SolutionLab that had students consider a social problem and come up with innovative business plans to solve it.
Senior Writer, Planet Forward
The GreenBiz VERGE event in San Jose, California, brought together a multidisciplinary community pursuing the next frontier of sustainability built upon converging technologies.
Novozymes
Adam Monroe, President of Novozymes of North America, caught up with Planet Forward at the Washington Auto Show to talk about their plan for developing a way to use agricultural waste for fuel. And how efficient is it? Well watch and find out.
The Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) is a consumer focused non-profit organization aiming to promote the understanding and benefits of modernized electrical systems among all stakeholders in the United States. In less than a year they have... Read More
Ford Motor Company
Sue Cishchke, Group Vice President of Sustainability, Environment, and Safety Engineering with Ford Motor Company, talked to Planet Forward at the Washington Auto Show Policy Day on Capitol Hill about its all new plug-in hybrid and new line of... Read More
BMW of North America, LLC
Thomas Baloga, Vice President of Engineering for BMW of North America, caught up with Planet Forward at the Auto Show Policy Day on Capitol Hill to tell us about the new light-weight, carbon-reinforced fiber that will help reduce the weight of the... Read More
Argonne National Laboratory
Don Hillebrand, Director of the Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory, spoke to Planet Forward about their new diesel engine that will use low quality, low octane gasoline at the Auto Show Policy Day on Capitol Hill.
The Automobile Industry Meets the 18th Century
Although the idea of interchangeable parts is often credited to Eli Whitney in the late 18th century, some credit 15th century Gutenberg. Maybe the idea will hit Detroit sometime in the 21st century,... Read More
AABE
At the USEA's "State of the Energy Industry" forum, Frank Stewart, President and COO of the American Association of Blacks in Energy, told Planet Forward that he thinks performance contracting is underutilized and could be a money-making, energy... Read More
Many business buildings leave the lights on all night !
With new automation systems the lights can be turned off automatically when no one is in the room, and also turned on automatically when someone walks in the room. They cost next to nothing to... Read More