NanoSail-D, a solar sail spacecraft recently launched by NASA, is the first of its kind to ever orbit the Earth. The novel invention was supposed to “set sail” in late 2010 but due to some unforeseen technical issues, it remained locked to its FASTSAT mother satellite — until early 2011, when NanoSail-D spontaneously ejected itself into orbit. The probe on the spacecraft is around the size of a breadbox and its sail is ten square meters. NASA will…

New Mexico State University’s International Relations Institute will receive $200,000 in federal funds to support the development of innovative energy sources for New Mexico farmers and ranchers. Most of the cash, $125,000 to be exact, will be apportioned to projects under the university’s Renewable Energy, Water and Arid Lands Task Force. Projects include a new solar system for a biodiesel project fueled by algae, a new solar power system for water…

21st century green initiatives are sparking life in today’s economy. Particularly, there have been a few major investments in renewable energy technologies that have positively influenced the stock market. In recent news, ProLogis, a leading global provider of distribution facilities has made a tremendous investment in solar rooftop implementation in Southern California. This is one of many enormous green investments following Earth Day 2010, but what type of impact is…

According to a report published yesterday by Blue Green Canada, Canadians have lost out on roughly 66,000 new jobs because the nation’s federal government has failed to pursue renewable energy investing. The survey, entitled, Falling Behind: Canada’s Lost Clean Energy Jobs, is the first analysis concerning the employment impact of Canada’s failure to invest in renewable energy projects and was released yesterday at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference in Washington, DC. “Canada’s federal government keeps saying…

Air Force personnel all across the globe are joining millions to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, which falls on April 22nd each year. Earth Day magnifies ecological appreciation and promotes awareness to the masses, in the hopes of creating a greener, more sustainable planet. The aged expression, “make every day Earth Day” is encapsulated in the Air Force civil engineer’s policy for a interdepartmental revamping of sorts, in which officials are assigned to construct…