Carli Ghelfi's blog

The rock to rule the world.

It sure is a sign of the times when a Chinese fabric company has a polysilicon producing subsidiary.

Jiangyin, China-based JiangSu Sunshine Co., also known as China's largest wortsted and wool fabric company—which produces 350,000 premium men's suits a year—has apparently advanced $121.4 million with the intention of buying polysilicon making equipment for its subsidiary Ningxia Sunshine Silicon Co., which plans to output a relatively paltry 4,000 tons of polysilicon per year compared to larger plants.

This bit of news comes at an interesting time for polysilicon.

Poor little guys, free ranging about, waiting for their dinners.

Today the NCC—that's the U.S. National Chicken Council, not to be confused with this NCC, this NCC or this NCC—said it is seeing ‘severe harm’ from the U.S. ethanol mandate.

Observer, left, ponders barrel run at the Tarbela Hydropower Dam, in Pakistan.

For as little as $2.2 billion dollars and a whole lot of CO₂-emitting concrete, you too can build your very own "clean power" four turbine dam in Pakistan.

The Pakistan Water and Development Authority (WAPDA) is working to ensure its Neelum-Jhelum Hydroelectric Project and other hydroelectric dam projects are seen through fruition.

Sorry men. No green briefs for you just yet.

Yes, you read that correctly. Carbon neutral panties are here!

Marks & Spencer (M&S), the U.K.’s largest clothier, can now officially say its undergarments are ‘green’. While the announcement was a few months shy of making this year’s St. Patty’s day, the company is officially selling its carbon neutral bras to U.K. shoppers.

Even the biorefineries are big in Texas.

It never ends, does it?

Today Houston, TX-based GreenHunter Energy (AMEX: GRH) announced celebration plans for next week's opening and tap-turning (as they say) of its new biodiesel refinery—which it claims is the 'nation's single largest' to date.

New Cooler? Or Cooler Classic?

At an inaugural Greenpeace Business Lecture in Beijing yesterday, Coca-Cola’s (NASDAQ: COKE) chief Neville Isdell promised the Atlanta-based company would further decrease its carbon footprint by purchasing 100,000 compressed carbon dioxide beverage coolers.

Yes, you read that right—CO₂ beverage coolers.