The Organic Corner

News and information about things organic (and solar, too)

Entech Solar Enters Into Agreement with Fraunhofer USA’s Center for Sustainable Energy Systems

Content Keyword RSS | March 13, 2009

FORT WORTH, Texas—-Entech Solar , a leader in concentrating solar energy systems, announced today that it has entered into a research contract with Fraunhofer USA’s Center for Sustainable Energy Systems to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating high-efficiency back-contact silicon solar cells into Entech’s 20x concentrating solar systems.

China’s New Organic Industry

Content Keyword RSS | February 28, 2009

From Jordan Calinoff, for GlobalPost . It’s an unlikely sight in the grungy outskirts of one of the world’s most polluted cities: row upon row of organically farmed buttery Boston lettuce, fresh thyme, and crisp cabbages. Just drive an hour north of Shanghai’s center, as massive apartment complexes fade into crumbling low-rise concrete buildings, and there it is – City Farm, a pioneer in China’s burgeoning organic food industry. “Many of our customers are foreigners and like to eat