If You Can't Afford Panels, Try Pay-As-You-Go Solar Simpa Networks offers a simple solution to the expenses of solar installation: pay in installments, just like people do with cell phones.
Updated Thu Oct 27, 2011
Brazilian Eyes In The Sky Focus On The Disappearing Rainforest Armed with new drones, Brazilian authorities are sending them out over the wilderness to hunt for poachers and illegal mining and logging.
Updated Wed Oct 26, 2011
Level Up: Gamers Become Scientists By Competing To Design The Best RNA Molecules EteRNA, the new project from the brains behind FoldIt, wants to create and study RNA molecules to help cure diseases. Turn out if you give a gamer a chance, they can design RNA molecules far better than any computer.
Updated Mon Oct 24, 2011
Crowdsourcing Science Promises Hope For Curing Deadly Disease When cataloging images of tuberculosis cells became too daunting for a research team at Harvard, they turned to crowdsourcing, and discovered that the masses have the ability to dramatically change the course of scientific research.
Updated Fri Oct 21, 2011
Solar Energy's Potential Is Hottest In The Planet's Coldest Regions Think the best place for solar panels is the desert? Think again. In Antarctica, the sun shines 24 hours a day.
Updated Fri Oct 21, 2011
A Global Plan For Sustainable Agriculture Use less land, eat less meat, waste less food. Sounds obvious, but these plans were developed after an intense examination of farm data and satellite images. Now it's just a question of implementing it.
Updated Wed Oct 19, 2011
Renewable Rubber The Next Step For Truly Oil-Free Cars Replacing the oil that we use to make our car parts is just as important as replacing the oil we use to power our cars.
Updated Tue Oct 18, 2011
The Bay Bank Tries To Create A Market For Conservation The economic value of ecosystems has been calculated as greater than the global gross national product. In the Chesapeake Bay, one bank is creating value and saving wetlands, by making that value a reality.
Updated Mon Oct 17, 2011
Once Fish Come Back, It's Tempting To Just Start Catching Them Again The 800-pound Goliath grouper was near extinction before conservation measures brought it back from the brink. What happens when it starts being harvested again?
Updated Fri Oct 14, 2011
Carpooling.com, Booming In Europe, Eyes A U.S. Launch Carpooling--going strong overseas--may be finally rev up here thanks to the domestic launch of Europe's incredibly successful ridesharing program.
Updated Fri Oct 14, 2011
The Military's Conversion To Renewables Will Save Soldiers' Lives Guarding the fuel trucks that power America's armed forces overseas has turned into a deadly job. The military is realizing that saving money on gas isn't the most important reason to switch to clean fuel.
Updated Thu Oct 13, 2011
Making The Real Estate Market Work For Nonprofits Sell your house, give to charity. My Broker Donates enlists the help of brokers to give parts of their fees to area nonprofits--organizations whose work often drives up property values.
Updated Wed Oct 12, 2011
New Technology To Save--Not Just Catch--Marine Life After decades of more and more powerful fish-catching innovation, scientists are now developing ways for fisherman to catch just the amount, and type, of fish they need.
Updated Fri Oct 7, 2011
Visualizing The Carbon In Our Built Environment Architecture 2030's plan is for all buildings to proudly announce how many emissions it required to build them, to operate them, and to eventually tear them down.
Updated Thu Oct 6, 2011
Live Life Below The Poverty Line By Playing Spent As more and more people join the ranks of America's poor, it might behoove the rest of us to gain a little empathy. A new web-based game gives a least a little insight into what that life is like.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
Autolib': Could Paris's Electric Car Share Be A Test Case For Cities Around The World? Its massive bike share program showed that major cities could let citizens rent bikes, and inspired cities like New York and D.C. to follow suit. Next up: Sharing city-owned electric cars.
Updated Tue Oct 4, 2011
In Florida, Ranchers Make Room For The Big Cats Who Want To Eat Their Cattle Florida panthers (not the football team) are back, which brings inevitable interaction with humans. But unlike in Yellowstone, where new wolves caused an outcry, Florida's smooth reintroduction might become a model for other predator populations.
Updated Mon Oct 3, 2011
The End Of Fish And Chips: Climate Change Causing Massive Changes In European Fisheries Say goodbye to haddock and cod--climate change off the European coast could trigger cold-loving fish to be replaced by new, warmth-loving species.
Updated Thu Sep 29, 2011
Wearing Altruism On Your Sleeve, And Around Your Neck Altruette sells necklaces and charms that tell the stories of the nonprofits that get cash from the company's sales.
Updated Thu Sep 29, 2011
An MFA Degree For Designers Who Want To Change The World A new MFA program at the School of Visual Arts teaches students to apply design thinking as a driver for social change.
Updated Thu Sep 29, 2011
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