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The local food movement in America is gaining steam. The question is whether can it attract sufficient capital from the private sector to build large, profitable businesses.

By Malathi Nayak WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Energy Department said on Tuesday it would install 18 fuel cell backup power systems at eight U.S. military posts, as part of a partnership with the Defense Department to bolster energy security.

If you're like most people I work with in companies, the demands come at you from every angle, all day long, and you have to make difficult decisions without much time to think about them. What enduring principles can you rely on to make choices that reflect openness, integrity and authenticity? Here are ten that work for me: 1.

Spending on renewable energy is at an all-time high around the world, and in some of the poorest places on Earth, it may mean leapfrogging over dirty power sources in favor of clean ones. That's it folks

I’ve been researching the oil and gas industry lately. This industry has a negative stigma attached to it as being very environmentally insensitive. Granted, oil spills and gas leaks aren’t helping the industry’s image.

All of our gadgets suck down an enormous amount of energy. But a new discovery--using magnets to power them--could make them almost impossibly efficient. Even the most energy conscious among us often run into one major obstacle: we need computers

This is the 61th year that the Nobel Laureate Meetings have been held at Lindau. The conference was held for the first time in 1951, funded by the wealthy count Lennart Bernadotte, as an effort to restore the international scientific ties that had been severed by the war. The count’s daughter, Bettina Bernadotte, has been the patron of the Lindau Conferences since 2007.

Is hydrogen actually clean, or just clean compared to fossil fuels? Even though it mostly produces water, there are some nasty side effects no one is talking about

LONDON (Reuters) - An invasion of jellyfish into a cooling water pool at a Scottish nuclear power plant kept its nuclear reactors offline on Wednesday, a phenomenon which may grow more common in future, scientists said. Two reactors at EDF Energy's Torness nuclear power plant on the Scottish east coast remained shut a day after they were manually stopped due to masses of jellyfish obstructing cooling water filters. [More]

Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (June 24) the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos. The result is consistent with and significantly constrains a measurement reported 10 days ago by the Japanese T2K experiment, which announced an indication of this type of transformation.

The latest to announce its demise is Google Powermeter . All the efforts to combine social networking with energy conservation seem to be pulling the plug.

The TerraPower "wave reactor" concept is backed by Microsoft's Bill Gates, is endorsed by Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman Jr. and has gotten a receptive ear from President Obama's Energy Department. But it's headed overseas for its next crucial step, if ongoing negotiations with a foreign sponsor are successfully completed, says Roger Reynolds, TerraPower's technical adviser

Here's how you may soon charge your phone by tapping on it rather than plugging it in. Thanks, science! Australian researchers have made a breakthrough in thin-film piezoelectric technology, working out a way to turn the chunky piezo electric tech we're already familiar with into super-thin layers that are actually much more useful. If your eyes glaze over at the merest mention of physics then at least read this: The tech could abolish wall wart power plugs forever.

And so would trading beef for chicken. According to a new study, cultured meat production generates up to 96% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than conventional meat production, though it's still second to poultry in terms of energy efficiency. Lab-grown meat is going to be on your table someday.

Nuclear energy has gotten a bad rap lately due to the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor. Environment editor David Biello reveals that hydropower may be a greater threat. A joint project with Detroit Public Television