The greenhouse effect is put to good use with a hot-air balloon that relies only on the sun for fuel – and you can apparently build one at home.
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Green Roofs Help Brighten Up Hospital Stays
Two hospitals recently transformed their roofs into living gardens, reducing their carbon footprint while also providing a healing green space for patients.
How To Build A Tiny Home—And Where To Put It
A new California development created just for tiny homes is in the works, plus a new workshop series is launching with tips on how to build your own tiny house.
Electric Vehicle Charging Could Be As Simple As Car Wheels
Researchers in Japan have developed a new method to charge electric cars via the movement of the vehicle’s tires.
New ‘Programmable Matter’ Could Revolutionize Construction
A research team from MIT has created a tiny robotic chain that, once reduced to the molecular scale, could someday revolutionize the way we create energy-efficient building materials.
Weaving Solar Magic With Super-Thin Fiber Cells
For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that has been shown to be scalable to many meters in length.
Algae-Derived Diesel Blend? Filler ‘er Up!
Four Propel Fuels stations in the Bay Area are offering Solazyme’s algae-based diesel blend for a month, a retail first.
Top 10 Cleantech Cities In The United States
The West Coast dominates Clean Edge’s new “Metro Index,” with San Jose grabbing the gold in the ranking of U.S. cleantech leadership.
Top 5 Home Winterization Tips For Energy Awareness Month
In honor of October being National Energy Awareness Month, we decided to round up five of the best home winterization tips we could find!
Living Green Walls Are Like Parks Turned Inside Out
A new trend in design is infusing green back into our urban environments, without wasting any space.
Electric Cars Are Greener The Longer You Drive Them
A new study finds manufacturing electric vehicles poses big environmental risks, so the longer they are driven, the greater the environmental benefit.
Wave Power Tech A Wide Open Field; Got An Idea?
At the Ocean Renewable Energy Conference in Portland, a wide diversity of wave energy converters are under discussion.
Is This The Most Sustainable House In The World?
Far north on the isle of Unst in Scotland, a retired schoolteacher and her husband have used wind power to build what may be the greenest home in the world.
Big Retailers Rule In Onsite Solar Power
Walmart is No. 1, followed by Costco, Ikea, Kohl’s and Macy’s in a new compilation of the top U.S. companies for solar power capacity.