Sweeter Alternative/CC BY-ND 2.0 There’s a new survey from Pike Research, the Energy & Environment Consumer Survey, which GreenBiz is highlighting, that has some interesting stats on how US adults feel about various renewable energy and cleantech programs. The survey gauges whether people feel favorably or unfavorably about solar power, …

Christian Haugen via Flickr CC/CC BY 2.0 Money is a great motivator for anything, and likely the biggest one when it comes to reducing energy usage at home, but a study done for the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) found that U.S. utility customers were interested in smart grid technologies …

Hakan Dahlstrom/CC BY 2.0 Apple has received a major Granted Patent for a system that will allow it to link users’ iTunes accounts to mobile purchases, reported Forbes. To put it extremely simply, this is Apple’s war on cold hard cash: the iWallet. But what does the potential end of …

Powerhouse Museum Collection/Public Domain While some anti-environment extremists are painting bike paths as a communist plot, it’s been shown that well-planned, dense urban neighborhoods improve quality of life and increase property values. That’s probably why new research from the Australian Heart Foundation shows a majority of parents want their kids …

Deepwater Horizon Response/CC BY-ND 2.0 A settlement has been reached in the BP oil spill civil trial with the more than 100,000 victims pressing their claim. Claims by the US government for violations of the Clean Water Act have not been settled. NPR reports that there will be no cap …

Ajith_chatie/CC BY 2.0 I tend to be a bit obsessive about tomatoes. In my summer garden, they are allotted the most space, the sunniest spots, and the beds with the fluffiest soil. And, inevitably, I run out of good garden spots before I run out of tomato plants that need …

© Elie Ahovi Even the most efficient washing machines on the market use a lot of energy and water, especially if warm or hot water is involved. But this revolutionary concept from designer Elie Ahovi could change all that. The Orbit ditches the soap and water for the cleaning power …

Car-Sharing Gets Even Greener Zipcar, the biggest car-sharing company in North-America, is partnering with Honda to include more models of greener cars in its fleet. Car-sharing is already better than owning a car for those who want to drive as little as possible but aren’t quite ready (or it’s not …

Wikipedia/CC BY 3.0 Thankfully, It Was Still Under-Construction As much as I think that high-speed rail can be a great idea for certain densely populated regions like China’s coast, safety matters. Any environmental or social benefits of interconnecting cities with rail will be moot if people don’t perceive the trains …

Peter Blanchard/CC BY 2.0 It’s not quite a revelation on the scale of what some of the Wikileaks documents have unearthed on the one-in-the-same relationship of government to industry in many nations, but Canada.com has a telling summary of the lengths the Canadian government is willing to go to in …