Could Obama Administration’s ‘Big Solar’ Grow Up to Beat Big Oil?
August 10th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
One of the reasons that this nation is unable to pass meaningful legislation to get us off fossil fuels is [&hellip
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A McMansion Builder Tries Zero Energy Building
August 9th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Like many a true business breakthrough, Prairie Ridge Homes, a new subdivision of net zero energy homes, grew out of [&hellip
Young Coal Activists Shut Mountaintop Mining for Four Hours
July 23rd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Four protesters in their 20s who succeeded in briefly halting mountaintop removal on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia are [&hellip
One Way Climate Change Will Change the Way We Build
July 19th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
A village in Alaska has had to find a way to counteract the effects of an ongoing permafrost melt that [&hellip
Is Your Insulation Bad For the Environment?
July 13th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Uh-oh. Turns out that many of the insulation materials we use to reduce our energy use (and thus reduce greenhouse [&hellip
Coal Mining Costing West Virginia $97.5 Million
July 2nd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Despite the PR campaigns by the coal lobby that imply that the state relies on coal income, an analysis by [&hellip
Economical Energy for a Water Constrained Future
June 29th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
To prepare for our carbon-constrained and water-scarce future, as more and more of the world’s land turns into desert with [&hellip
Why There’s a 1 MW Power Station Under a Helsinki Cathedral
June 28th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
The energetic founder of Finnish energy monitoring giant BaseN was walking past data centers to measure their heat output as [&hellip
Cartoonist Joe Mohr: Science-y… or Scientist?
June 15th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
When my net-ecofriend Joe Mohr sent me his wryly “scientific” cartoon, his black humored response to the BP news afforded [&hellip
Could Intimidation Shut Down Climate Science?
June 11th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
In congressional testimony before the House (in which they attempted to rouse the nation to act urgently on climate change) [&hellip
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