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Monday, January 04, 2021
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Shaylyn Warrior at the Lubbock, Texas, Climate Strike. (Codi Clark/Texas Tech University)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University
Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Despite growing up around the oil industry, Shaylyn Warrior talks about how she and others at the Lubbock, Texas, march think it's time the Southwest turns away from fossil fuel production.
Tags: climate action, climate change, strike, lubbock, texas, oil, action, green living, PFfaces, storyfest2020
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Some really cool robots are underwater! Shashank Priya, associate professor in mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, explains the small robot jellyfish, Robojelly.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) are working to develop more efficient solar cells based on organic semiconductors. Their research will make solar cells much easier and cheaper to produce.
Tags: solar, Clean Tech, green energy, solar cells, Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, Energy Frontier Research Center, loren kaake, nanotechnology, semiconductors, xiaoyang zhu
Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University
Monday, January 27, 2020
Texas is known nationwide as being home to cotton, cattle, and oil booms. But renewable energy industries are quickly gaining popularity in the state.
Tags: storyfest2020, wind, turbines, energy, Green, rural, Urban, texas, industry, Ecology and Economics
Monday, January 10, 2011
The geothermal industry gets its first big lobbyist. Will this help expand on a lagging form of clean energy production?
Tags: Policy, Clean Tech, geothermal, politics, IDEA, Toronto, dan ellis, thermal, geothermal exchange organization
Planet Forward
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Congratulations to our 2018-2019 team of Planet Forward Correspondents! Read below to learn more about the exceptional team of students selected, and be sure to click through to see their full profiles:
Planet Forward
Thursday, September 05, 2019
Congratulations to our 2019-2020 team of Planet Forward Correspondents! Read below to learn more about the exceptional team of students selected, and be sure to click through to see their full profiles:
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Founding Director, Planet Forward
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
We are beyond excited to share the outstanding finalists for Storyfest 2019. They hail from 15 different schools, from all across the country. Will your school be a winner?
Tags: storyfest2019
The UC Davis Renewable Energy Anaerobic Digester, which officially opened Earth Day, April 22, 2014, converts organic waste from campus and other sources into clean energy for the campus electrical grid. The anaerobic digestion technology used in the facility was invented by UC Davis professor Ruihong Zhang and licensed to Sacramento-based CleanWorld. (UC Davis)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | University of Wisconsin-Madison
Monday, December 10, 2018
Next in our Tackling Food Waste series: What if you could take food waste and give it another life — or two? That's the idea behind the biodigester facility at UC Davis. University of Wisconsin-Madison's Peter Jurich reports.