Startup Spotlight: Oroeco tackles climate change, one purchase at a time

Oroeco combines your spending and investment data with data about global climate change to help users track the sustainability of their lifestyle.

Opower embraces big data to lower your utility bill

You want to save money. Utilities want you to conserve energy. Middle-man Opower thinks it can satisfy everyone with a brand-new platform designed to get people excited, yes excited, about energy conservation.

Facebook app promotes energy conservation with peer pressure

If simple common sense can’t curb energy usage, perhaps a little peer pressure from Facebook friends will do the trick.

Facebook has joined forces with energy efficiency startup Opower and the National Resources Defense Council to release a social energy …