Solar power is one of the best energy sources available to us. It’s clean, renewable, and very powerful. For years the trouble has been finding cost-effective ways to capture that power. There have ...

When you’ve got your green building innovation installed in the backyard of U.S. Green Building Council founder David Gottfried, you know you’re doing something right. The innovation is the HOG ...

We’ve all heard about how as more CO2 is released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels; more is being absorbed by oceans, and that is making the ocean too acidic so that shellfish can’t make ...

As a former full-time RVer, I can tell you that when living on the road, it’s difficult to balance efficiency and convenience. When planning our nomadic experiment, we decided to ignore those who told ...

Contrails might be a punch line in the culture these days, thanks to the imaginative folks who have rechristened them “chemtrails” and embroidered them with elaborate theories involving government and ...

Economists at the University of Chicago recently published findings that show state-level renewable energy mandates raise utility prices by an extremely-high 17%. The findings are much higher than an ...

Here’s our new nickname for Ocean Power Technologies’ PowerBuoy: Godot. As in, Waiting for Godot. The first PowerBuoy — prelude to a federally licensed, 10-buoy, grid-connected power plant — was ...

Residents of Mexico City face a resource paradox: their city receives a fair amount of rainfall each year (around 32.1 inches per year, just 5 inches less than Portland, Ore.), but its residents ...

A lot of news outlets have been carrying on about solar making up 100 percent of the power generation added to the U.S. grid in March, as though it were some kind of watershed event, a sign of great ...

On the EarthTechling Utterly Cool Projects Scale™, the EnviroMission Solar Tower project might be unrivaled. More than 2,600 feet tall, with a mile-in-diameter greenhouse canopy at its base creating ...

That recent report from Environment America Research & Policy Center, the one called “Lighting the Way: What We Can Learn from America’s Top 12 Solar States,” might need an update. Colorado is listed ...

Renewable energy comprised virtually 100 percent of the new generating capacity installed in the United States in January, according to a new government report. The monthly Energy Infrastructure ...