The results from Johnson Controls' Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) survey are back, with few surprises. The report, which surveyed 1,400 North American executives in charge of energy management, found that the execs are ...READ»
Romses Architects' Harvest Green Project, a winning entry in Vancouver's "The 2030 Challenge," explores urban vertical farming in mixed-use buildings.
The architecture firm envisions a building that contains ...READ»
The electric grid is a hot topic right now, with improved smart grid technologies and alternative power sources coming online every day. It's also massively complex--an aging network of local and regional fiefdoms. But NPR has ...READ»
Aveda is doing L'Oreal's poop-powered hair products one better with its newfound company-wide Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) certification. The company also received Gold level C2C certification for its Smooth Infusion shampoo, Smooth ...READ»
Designer Taikkun Li's Prayer Wheel Energy Generator proves that praying can actually have immediate earthly benefits. Li's device is essentially a Tibetan prayer wheel outfitted with used bicycle parts and a discarded fan ...READ»
We're not likely to see steam-powered iPod generators on the market any time soon, but this is still a neat project. A steampunk fan named Thomas matched a Lego Technic Motor to a Jensen #75 steam engine and soldered in a USB ...READ»
The country that unleashed ABBA, IKEA and H&M on the world is gearing up to impress us once again--this time with Europe's largest wind farm. Swedish company Markbygden Vind AB wants to build 1,101 wind turbines in the northern ...READ»
For those times when a tent or trailer just won't cut it, consider the Intershelter, a Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic dome made of a "a high-tech aerospace composite material" that has the strength of a permanent ...READ»
The recession has finally caused oil companies has to pull back promises of renewable energy, as Royal Dutch Shell announced that it won't make any more large investments in wind, solar, or hydrogen technology. Tough times have sent ...READ»
Don't despair too much about the current economic crisis. Hope is just around the corner, according to Clean Edge's Clean Energy Trends 2009 report. While the short-term outlook for jobs is grim (surprise!), jobs in solar and wind ...READ»
At the second annual Greener Gadgets Conference in New York, the design competition was almost as notable for the gadgets that didn’t make the cut as for the ones that did. Note the Jiggy Bed, which promises to (you guessed it) ...READ»
Most of the projects in the the President's $900 billion stimulus package are the kind of public works the government has executed for decades: trains, bridges, and so on. But the "Energy" projects that will be eligible for funding ...READ»
I have a friend who swears by an exercise machine called the Lifecycle. He grinds and sweats an hour a day on that thing. Lots of other people do too, or so I’m told (I try to walk the dog three times a week and perform regular leg ...READ»
It almost sounds like the beginning of a joke or tall tale. An Austrian, a Hawaiian, and a man from China got together in Beverly Hills one day…
When I first envisioned a gathering of world leaders, hosted by US Governors who ...READ»
by Kelly Jad'on
Book Review: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less—A Handbook For
Slashing Gas Prices And Solving Our Energy Crisis (Regnery Pub., 2008)
by Newt Gingrich
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich follows up ...READ»
Congress passed the bailout plan with a price tag of nearly a trillion dollars, but the ink was hardly dry on this new Monopoly money when quite a few experts began to predict it wouldn’t be enough. Some estimates hope the ...READ»
In the US, few consumers would probably identify GM [NYSE:GM] as an eco-friendly company. But in Spain, the General is acting downright green, planning to cover the roof of its largest European factory entirely in solar panels -- ...READ»
An 80-storey (420-metre tall) moving building is slated to be built in Dubai, with apartments that will spin 360 degrees at voice command, according to the BBC.
Talk about innovative… 79 horizontally placed wind turbines ...READ»
