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How We Can Pedal, Crank, Dance, And Walk To Create Electricity
Generating electricity isn’t limited to burning things or harnessing the power of the wind, waves and sun. What’s the potential for human power?
Terrafugia TF-X The Flying Green Car We Dream About?
A start up run by MIT graduates envisions a plug-in hybrid flying car of tomorrow with a range in the air of at least 500 miles which would also fit in your garage.
Milwaukee Office Building Fulfills Its Healing Mission
The Clock Shadow Building, constructed on a vacant brownfield site, now uses sustainable methods to reduce its carbon footprint and promote wellness of both mind and body.
Solar Traps: World-Changer Or Vaporware?
A Maryland inventor’s claim of a radically new and better (but largely not revealed) approach to solar power is getting attention. Is there anything to it?
German WWII Bunker To Generate Renewable Energy
A hulking relic of World War II in Hamburg is now an adaptive reuse project that will generate solar thermal and biomass energy to heat thousands of homes.
Alaskan Home Ultimate In Energy Conservation
Cold climates need especially warm, tight houses. Alaska just got one via this well designed Passive House.
Minimalist Apartments Behind The Veil
New apartments in Galata, Istanbul offer a novel and very Middle-Eastern solution to the problem of how to adjust solar heat gain seasonally.
US Army Rolling Out $7B Renewable Energy Buy
Private money is financing privately developed renewable energy projects, beginning with geothermal, that will power U.S. military installations.
Home Away From Home For 20,000 Creatures Of The Sea
Northern Europe’s largest aquarium has just reopened to the public in an imaginative new building.
California’s Biggest Solar PV Plant In High Gear
A 66-megawatt PV plant, currently the largest operating in California, is cranking out maximum power for several hours a day in northern Los Angeles County.
Baltimore Architects Stand On Principle
Winning design in a Baltimore row house design contest uses rammed earth walls for a low carbon footprint.
Chicago’s ‘Greenest Street’ Uses Smog-Eating Cement
Maybe it’s not literally the “greenest street,” but the smog-eating cement, renewable energy systems and bioswales could make an impact if scaled up citywide.
Is There Hope For Hydropower As The Climate Changes?
As the world gets hotter everywhere, some areas get wetter, more drier, and extreme weather becomes more common, how will the potential of hydropower to generate renewable electricity change?