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Will Solar Windows Transform Buildings To Energy Producers?
Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of Yale Environment 360. Author credit goes to Dave Levitan. If you picture the glittering glass skyscrapers that dot America’s...
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Living Building Challenge Sets Green Standards High
Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of Yale Environment 360. Author credit goes to Dylan Walsh. In June, the U.S. Green Building Council announced that a proposed...
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With Funding Tight, Cities Turn To Green Infrastructure
Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of Yale Environment 360. Author credit goes to Jim Robbins. In Puget Sound, one of America’s great estuaries, killer whales, seals,...
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Green Crude: The Quest To Unlock Algae’s Energy Potential
Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of Yale Environment 360. Author credit goes to Marc Gunther. Tiny Columbus, New Mexico (population, 1,678) is hot, flat and...
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How Data And Social Pressure Can Reduce Home Energy Use
Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of Yale Environment 360. Author credit goes to Dave Levitan. Visit the website of Opower and your eye will be drawn to a counter in...
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A Rare Duck In A Shrinking Pond Of Climate Change Deniers
Heresy may have cost Bob Inglis his seat in the U.S. Congress. As a six-term Republican congressman from one of South Carolina’s most conservative districts, Inglis told an audience at a 2010 campaign...
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Using Technology To Help Save Marine Predators
Even as populations of sharks, bluefin tuna, and other large fish are being severely over-exploited, scientists still know surprisingly little about when and where the ocean’s biggest predators...
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Brokering Solar Power Through The Power Of The Common Man
Billy Parish is the president and co-founder of Mosaic, a two-year-old Internet “crowdfunding” service that lets individual investors put their money into commercial solar projects and earn a rate of...
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Are Electric Bicycles Ready For A Prime Time Debut?
Most Americans know about Tesla, the Chevy Volt, and the Nissan Leaf. But what about Evelo, the eZip Trailz, and the Faraday Porteur? The first three are, of course, electric cars. They benefit from a...
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Bringing Solar To Africa One Woman At A Time
For Katherine Lucey, the lack of electricity in many parts of the developing world is not just an economic issue, it is a gender issue. A former investment banker who specialized in financing...
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Marines Storm The Beach Of Green Technology
Recently, at the U.S. Marine Corps’ Mojave Desert combat training center, some of the military’s best and brightest gathered to test the latest in energy-saving gear. The gadgets sound like ones that a...
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Alternative Fuels Make Bad Public Policy
For nearly four decades, every American president has promoted alternative fuel vehicles as a way to secure the country’s energy independence. Ronald Reagan backed the 1988 Alternative Motor Fuels Act,...
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The Battle Of Utilities Versus Rooftop Solar
Issues of electricity regulation typically play out in drab government hearing rooms. That has not been the case this summer in Arizona, where a noisy argument – featuring TV attack ads and dueling...
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Bringing Clean Water To India Via High Tech
Despite decades of efforts that have dramatically improved access to clean water in India, more than 140 million people there still drink water contaminated by bacteria, chemicals, and other...
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U.S. Offshore Wind Slowly Starts To Spin
In June, after years of offshore wind power projects being thwarted in the United States, the first offshore wind turbine began spinning off the U.S. coast. The turbine was not a multi-megawatt,...
View ArticleAmory Lovins Lays Out His Clean Energy Plan
Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of Yale Environment 360. Amory B. Lovins is fond of referring to the Rocky Mountain Institute, where he serves as chairman and...
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Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of Yale Environment 360. Author credit goes to Dave Levitan. If you picture the glittering glass skyscrapers that dot America’s...
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