Solar Power Innovative Use For Contaminated Farmland
An ambitious project would build one of the world’s largest solar energy complexes on contaminated farmland in California’s Central Valley.
An ambitious project would build one of the world’s largest solar energy complexes on contaminated farmland in California’s Central Valley.
What really makes for a green or sustainable city? And how can sometimes highly diverse urban areas attain it?
The president’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has laid out a clear-eyed vision for tackling the climate-change challenge.
The small, DIY housing trend gets a fun-loving, Portlandia-style send-up from filmmaker Dawn Jones.
Upon a second review, the Kansas House Energy and Environment Committee voted 10-9 to table a bill which would have repealed the 20 percent target of the RPS.
Ohio’s alternative energy portfolio standard is being challenged, as in other states, by a group of conservatives.
The aptly-named Higher Ground Farm will open this spring on the roof of the Boston Design Center, cultivating an amazing 55,000 square feet, or a little over an acre.
Even as North Carolina celebrates being a top place for green jobs, possible legislation could weaken state renewable energy standards there and other places.
Whoever is chosen for the next U.S. Secretary of Energy position, likely Ernest Moniz, should focus on more efficiency, more renewables and less carbon.
Efficiency efforts since the 70s have saved Californians over $65 billion, helped make household electricity bills 25 percent below the national average, and avoided at least 30 power plants.