Category: Climate / Green Energy

A new book, 'Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming,' explores climate change profiteering. Here's why it's important for sustainability professionals to read.

The batteries could step in as a substitute for inefficient peaker plants or to back up intermittent renewable energy.

Whether working on better maps or organic batteries, these firms are at the forefront of developing tech to help the planet.

The "Earth is dying if we let it. Without ecology there can be no economy. Stop burning and cutting, work less and live more. Live free and green, or die"…

Winter is waning, and the peak season for movers—May until September—is quickly approaching. If you are planning an upcoming relocation, you may wonder how you can possibly have an eco-friendly…

Millions of acres of degraded terrain could hold 100 times the current U.S. solar capacity — and avert the environmental tradeoffs of blockbuster solar projects.

Panasonic is laying the groundwork for a massive networked deployment of lithium-ion batteries in solar-equipped homes and businesses to solve Japan’s post-Fukushima energy crisis -- and it’s looking to California…

McDonald's, AT&T and Jones Lang LaSalle have learned that to achieve energy priorities, engaging execs, employees and communities is key.

Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! Wondering how to live greener? You've come to the right place. Each week we challenge ourselves to try a new task ... or…

Download Report It could be said that in 2013 Canada was defined by its oil and gas sector. In a year highlighted by climate change activism, infrastructure and pipelines, economic…

FirstEnergy has chosen Itron to provide more than 2 million smart meters and its OpenWay smart grid platform for its four Pennsylvania-based utilities. Metropolitan Edison, Pennsylvania Electric, Pennsylvania Power and…

The largest coal plant in North America, the Nanticoke Generating Station, will stop burning coal this year as Ontario phases out coal-fired power. (Credit: JasonParis via Flickr) Have you ever…

Was any real progress made in Warsaw?

Three years ago, Beijing residents started hoarding iodine salt. Stores sold out of the commodity within days, and those with extra supplies jacked up prices to take advantage of the…

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Typhoon Haiyan, believed to be the biggest storm on record to make landfall, clearly demonstrates the risk posed by extreme super storms intensified by abrupt climate…

U.S. homeowners are concerned about the cost of solar, but want it as an option, according to a recent survey conducted by Zogby Analytics and commissioned by Clean Edge and…

(Photo Credit: Fractured Land) A report released today by the David Suzuki Foundation shines a light on industrial development in the Peace Region of Northeastern British Columbia. The alarming impact…

The Maasai have been grazing their cattle here for centuries. Beatrice Lempaira wants to make sure their way of life can continue.

SkS Highlights If you like the Sunday funnies, you'll love, Cartoon: the climate contrarian guide to managing risk, cartoon by John Cook and text by Dana and John Cook. Needless…

Samsung Electronics is developing a concept that will make use of sunshine, which is an abundant natural resource in Africa, to change and improve the lives of inhabitants of rural…

(Credit: Kris Krug via Flickr) "It is a budget that confronts and completely overturns the outdated notion that you have to choose either a healthy environment or a strong economy.…

Folsom Lake, a hydroelectric reservoir in California's Central Valley, was so dry in January a visitor could walk in its bed.

I’m writing this post to see if our audience can help out with a challenge: Can we collectively produce some coherent, properly referenced, open-source, scalable graphics of global temperature history…