A local start up, SABRTech, Inc., wins the Nova Scotia Clean Tech Open (Image: via ongreen.com)

Nova Scotia organized a contest for startup companies around the world interested in clean technology. The Canadian province offered more than three hundred thousand dollars in services and funding through Innovacorp.
According to Thomas Rankin, investment organizer and manager for Innovacorp’s Nova Scotia CleanTech Open, “it was a bit of a long shot and a bit of an experiment, but one …

Apple has revealed that its biggest data center – a facility located in Maiden, North Carolina – will be completely powered by renewable energy by the end of this year.
The move from the consumer electronics giant aims to allay concerns about power-hungry data centers being built to keep up with the demand of our data-hungry generation.
Apple says that to make its Maiden data center powered completely by renewable energy, it will be generating power on site in a scale unmatched by any other …

The Alta Wind Energy Center in the Mojave Desert (Photo Credit: Alta Wind Energy Center)

Google has added $102 million worth of funds to the Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC), a wind energy venture in the Mojave Desert, raising Google investments in clean energy to $780 million.
Showing an increasing concern for a clean energy source, Google has brought a total of $157 million to the Tehachapi-based Alta Wind Energy Center.
With over $700 million investments for this year, Google is now $220 …

Environmental group Greenpeace, in a study investigating pollution generated by some of the biggest tech industry companies’ data centers, has slammed ‘i’-things maker Apple.

Apple was ranked last in the Greenpeace study entitled “How Dirty is Your Data: A Look at the Energy Choices That Power Cloud Computing” which also involved tech heavyweight like Amazon, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo.
The study investigates how much and of what kind of energy is …