transportation

MIT takes aim at 21st century tranport challenge

A new initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology aims to pull together research from various departments to provide a more complete approach toward resolving the large-scale, global problems of sustainable transportation. The new programme — Transportation@MIT — is a “coordinated effort to address one of civilization’s most pressing challenges:

biofuels

Cleantech funding hit new heights in '08

It’s official: 2008, while being generally miserable for many business ventures, was a banner year for cleantech. The Cleantech Group reports that worldwide cleantech investments last year soared to a record high of $8.4 billion (US). It was the sector’s seventh consecutive year of investment growth. Whether