An independent company in Pawcatuck, Connecticut has recently begun water treatment operations to deliver potable water. The system uses a series of filters followed by an ozone treatment step, yielding drinking water from contaminated water without the use of chemicals. The filters remove large contaminants from the water supply, while the ozone treatment kills any remaining living organisms, including viruses. The company, AirWell H2O, is currently based in Southeast Connecticut, [...]

Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya, is home to 3 million inhabitants as well as a phenomenally successful composting program. This program was launched ten years ago to combat an ever increasing amount of organic waste produced in the city. Not only has it reduced the city’s organic waste by 30%, it has also created an environmentally sustainable and natural fertilizer for the city’s many parks. The money saved by this [...]

Business enterprises in Indonesia have traditional been dominated by sectors including mining and agriculture, due to the abundance of natural resources throughout the country. However, recent announcements by government ministers, including the Minister of Research and Technology, Dr. Gusti Muhammad Hatta, suggest that Indonesia may soon be headed in a new direction: encouraging small business growth. Read the recent article in Forbes Magazine

Indonesia’s economic development continues to move forward and progress with new rules and regulations regarding the acquisition of stakes in Indonesian banks by both foreign and domestic investors.  A recent article in the Wall Street Journal documents several of the changes that will take effect at the end of July. Image: The towers of Bank Indonesia over the Arjuna Wijaya chariot statue in Jakarta

TOLEDO, Ohio, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Xunlight Corporation, a leader in the design, development and manufacture of flexible and lightweight thin-film silicon solar modules and production equipment, announced today that it has been granted US utility patent “AN ISOLATION CHAMBER AND METHOD OF USING THE ISOLATION CHAMBER TO MAKE SOLAR CELL MATERIAL” by USPTO on May 08, 2012. This patent protects the Gen II roll-to-roll thin film silicon solar [...]

from the L.A. Times — Nathan Olivarez-Giles Google announced that it’s investing $94 million in solar panel farms in the Sacramento area. The money will go toward four photovoltaic, or PV, panel farms built by San Francisco-based Recurrent Energy, owned by tech-giant Sharp, and will help fuel the project alongside funding from investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., said Axel Martinez, Google’s assistant treasurer, in a company blog post [...]

Suryo Sulisto, first hosted by AICC in the 1980’s as an Eisenhower Fellow, returned as Chairman of Indonesia’s largest business organization, KADIN (Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry), to speak to 45 AICC members at a December 8thbreakfast at the Yale Club of NY.  KADIN is the only organization with statutory authority to represent business with the government.  Sulisto highlighted the fundamental connection between NY and Indonesia through the shared [...]