Reorienting the nation’s economy toward clean energy could “help pull the world from the financial brink.”

According to The Wall Street Journal, the credit crunch is squeezing renewables, and Seeking Alpha finds that “October has reduced the market value of the sustainable energy sector by about one-third.”

The New York Times reports on the rise of clean energy exchange-traded funds.

Ethernet inventor and clean energy venture capitalist Robert M. Metcalfe urges clean - tech innovators to blur the lines between communications and computing.

Harvard scientists discovered “black silicon” - a material that may be up to 500 times as sensitive to solar energy as conventional silicon.

Axial Vector Energy Corporation claims it has invented a component that will allow wind turbines to spin freely even when no breeze blows.

Local Green: Wisconsin Public Power Inc. - a regional nonprofit power company supplying energy to municipally owned utilities - is working to bring clean energy to the upper Midwest.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says that the economic crisis is “no reason to slow down when it comes to protecting our environment and investing in clean, green technologies.”

Florida’s Destiny Energy Farm - “a collaborative effort involving companies, individuals and academic research institutions” - hopes to gauge the commercial viability of using sweet sorghum stalks to make biofuel.

As the middle-class struggles, the wealthy continue to see incomes rise.

–Christopher Greenspan

Tags: Destiny Energy Farm, Exchange-Traded Funds, Robert M. Metcalfe, Sweet Sorghum, Wisconsin Public Power Inc.

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