Head over to Ford’s website for the 2012 Focus Electric and you’ll run smack dab into an offer to reserve yours today. So if you aren’t already signed up for a Nissan Leaf  among others, you can go ahead and sign up for Ford’s first electric car.

Twenty years ago no one anticipated their popularity or that mobile phones might one day prove to be portable gaming machines, eBook readers, and GPS navigation units.  In the coming 20 years we may all be amazed at how much of our lives revolve around 3D printing.

London is working hard to host the greenest Olympic Games ever.  As part of that ambitious plan, Blackfriars station platform will be extended and 4,400 solar panels will be installed on top of the bridge.  The work began on Tuesday and has to be finished in time for the Olympics in 2012.

Every cloud has a silver lining, every disaster an opportunity.  The devastation in parts of Japan as a result of the earthquake and tsunami six months ago is now ushering in a new age of renewable energy.

One of the ways that Google fulfills its goal to be carbon neutral is with the purchase of carbon offsets.  Duke Energy and Duke University collaborated with Loyd Ray Farms near Yadkin, North Carolina, to build a prototype waste-to-energy system.  Google has agreed to pay for part of the system operations and maintenance costs for the next five years in exchange for a portion of the carbon offsets.

Wildpoldsried, Germany is a little farming town that decided over a decade ago that they were going to move towards a green community without incurring debt.  Fourteen years later they have a diverse portfolio of renewable energy installations, new community buildings and more energy than the town needs.  By selling the excess energy, Wildpoldsried has eliminated all the towns debt and generates 4.0 million Euro (US $5.7 million) in annual income.

NIMBY. Not in my backyard.  It’s a familiar phrase to green technology.  Yes, we need to have more green energy installations but, and here’s the kicker, Not In My Backyard.  Well, that’s essentially what Donald Trump has just uttered.  Don’t build your offshore wind farm next to my multi-billion pound golf resort.

One draw back of hybrids and electric vehicles is the weight and volume of the batteries necessary to run them. Rechargeable batteries, whether they are nickel metal hydride, lead acid or lithium ion, are all heavy.  When the battery packs finally die, the components must be disposed of carefully because they are toxic.  PolyZion batteries will be composed of plastic, zinc and electrolytes.  The new batteries will be lighter, more environmentally friendly, long lasting and safer to use.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was host to former Michigan Governor Granholm who spoke at MIT’s reception on clean-energy innovation.  During her speech, she set out a plan that she said would get support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Like Dr. Frankenstein, who blended body parts of different people in an attempt to create life, GE and eSolar have blended different technologies to create a unique power plant.  They have combined natural gas, solar and wind power to create a unique hybrid power plant.