How Ethical is Google...?

Unless you live on the moon, Google is an integral part of your day to day life, but just how ethical is the all-conquering search giant whose motto is ‘Don’t be Evil’? Peter Salisbury investigates. [From: The Ecologist]

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Google: "Clean Energy Innovation Could Have Huge Payoff"

Google is a company that tends to put its money where its mouth is: They invested around half a billion dollars in various clean energy projects, some at the commercial deployment level, while some are at the R&D stage, and they've often stressed the important of clean energy in their various communications.

Google Invests €3.5M in German Solar Plant

Google has invested €3.5 million in a German 18.7-megawatt solar power plant in a small town near Berlin. It's Google's first investment in clean technology outside of the USA, and it's made the investment with German-based private equity firm Capital Stage. The solar power plant occupies around 116 acres and can generate enough power for around 5,000 homes...

Electric Car's Stations on Google Maps

Google will display the locations of electric vehicle charging stations on its Google Maps web and mobile applications in an attempt to push potential electric car buyers to take the plunge.

Google's investment in Transphorm could be good news for electric cars

Google said today it had invested in a startup called Transphorm, whose power-conversion efficiency technology could some day help create more efficient electric cars. The company's technology can reduce by up to 90 percent the power lost when one form of energy is converted to the other (say, from AC — alternating current — to DC, direct current). Hybrid and electric car drives also convert electricity from AC to DC, so the Transphorm's...