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Empire State Building Cuts Energy Use 20%

CNN Money
May 9th, 2012

The Empire State Building is on an energy diet. The hulking building, a symbol of American power and, to some, excess, has cut its energy use by 20%.

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Info Session on NEW Science and Sustainability Expo in Greenfield

Greening Greenfield Yobo Member
January 23rd, 2012

Editor’s Note: From time to time we feature a particular event like this one in Greenfield, MA, USA Jan. 26, 4:00 – 5:30pm for 4th to 12th Grade Educators GREENFIELD, MA – This spring there will be a NEW Western MA Science and Sustainability Expo in Greenfield offering opportunities for 4th- 12th grade youth and [...]

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Clean Water, Clean Energy

Ode Magazine Yobo Member
December 15th, 2011

By Wouter Janssen In the prosperous US West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream [...]

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The Future of Solar Born from a Lifetime of Innovation

Ashoka Yobo Member
December 2nd, 2011

Eden Full always wanted to be a scientist. At the age of nine, she entered a science competition and built her first solar car.

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Need a new roof? Solar power’s included

CNET
September 29th, 2011

OneRoof Solar is offering a new twist on the solar lease: when you replace your roof, you can get integrated solar panels with no incremental cost.

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Indian villagers’ lives transformed by new energy delivery system

Our World 2.0
January 30th, 2012

It is here in Uttar Pradesh, one of India’s largest and poorest states, far away from the country’s straining power grid, that US-born entrepreneurs Nikhil Jaisinghani and Brian Shaad have started to pioneer a wholly different energy system, designed to meet some of the most basic needs of the poorest.

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Ten UK Schools Pilot Crowd-funded Solar Roof Projects

Positive News
January 16th, 2012

Ten British schools are attempting to ‘crowd fund’ their own solar panel roofs, with support from carbon reduction organisation

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Getting Better at Going Green

Global Post
December 8th, 2011

What can be done about an intractable problem like the movement of the sun?

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Arup Proposes ‘Cluster’ City for Water Starved Area of China

Wired
October 4th, 2011

Less reliance on fossil fuels, biodiversity and neighbourhood planning are the buzzwords in the latest report released by design, engineering and planning sages, Arup. And they are hoping to put the proposals in the report to test by building a model eco city in China.

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Business, Resilience and Transition

Permaculture Principles
September 7th, 2011

“In many ways business is already ahead of the rest of us in terms of some of the thinking approaches that are required for energy descent. They are used to thinking ‘lean’ and getting the most out of things. The shift will be from merely prioritising output to thinking more widely. These principles offer a good lens through which to look at how to build resilience for business.”

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