Choo, choo… The little hybrid train that could
Here’s an insightful little profile of Railpower Technologies Corp. at Forbes.com. It gives the uninitiated reader a good sense of how and why Railpower got its start, why the company’s Green Goat concept is so attractive, and where the Canadian company is going as rail operators look for ways to lower fuel and maintenance costs. For an update on how the company is doing financially and with its growth strategy, click here. (Sorry, free sign-in required for both)

Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.