Mar
05
The next Occupy: Solar energy?
Solar energy, it seems, has become too successful for its own good.
Incentives in places like the UK and Germany
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Mar
02
LEGO wind turbines to sprout in North Sea
LEGO is helping a new crop of wind turbines sprout up in the North Sea off of Germany’s coast.
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Mar
02
Best ... sustainability ... report ... ever
From who else? LEGO.
Not only is the Denmark-based company big on wind energy, but it aims to be 100-percent
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Mar
01
RIP Oldbury, 44, world's oldest working nuke plant
It was a different world for nuclear power stations when Oldbury came onto the scene in the UK in 1967.
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Mar
01
What our alternative futures might look like
The future isn’t written in stone … or in silicon chips, for that matter. As the “butterfly effect” suggests, the
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Feb
29
Collapse or 'megaefficiency'? Five visions for 2050
If the image accompanying this article conjures up images of “Blade Runner,” you’ve gotten the right idea. An unsustainable,
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Feb
29
A US price on carbon: Makes sense ... so not likely
What’s one of the single most promising strategies for reducing fossil fuel consumption, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and leveling
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Feb
28
Eat your efficiency: Good for us but hard to swallow
Why is it people continue to do so many things they know aren’t good for them: eating fast food,
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Feb
28
Thirsty cities grapple with smart meters, dumb pipes
Just as smart electricity meters are touted as a way to better control energy consumption and waste, smart water meters
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Feb
27
Is clean energy being set up to fail?
It’s not completely in tinfoil hat territory to question whether there are forces out there that would like to
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