Home Solar Isn’t Just For The Rich
Solarization isn’t just a one-percenter phenomenon.
CLI-FI
Added Benefit Of Solar Boom? Jobs
Now adding jobs to the American economy at 10 times the national average, has given labor some much-needed love.
Cli-Fi Is Real
Cli-fi is the cultural prism through which we monitor and experience ourselves as we bleed our planet dry while trying to become machines.
Solar Drones Take Off
We might as well make them run on sunshine.
IPPR: Utilities Dying, Go Solar
Now it’s calling for the immediate replacement of obsolete utilities with distributed energy.
Clean Energy Victory Bonds Finance Solar Boom
As divestment from dirty fuels take hold, cleantech financial instruments are ramping up.
(Still) Memorializing Hyperreality
Which seams were splitting? Those separating reality and hyperreality.
China Gets Serious About Rooftop Solar
Rooftop solar may be drawing fire in the US, but China is cool with it.
Green Jobs Nearly Double in 2014
The line starts at cleantech and ends … well, it doesn’t end.
No One Wins the US China Solar War
We’re in the slow-motion throes of an environmental apocalypse whose existential ravages are terrifyingly “irreversible.” Now is not the time to be arguing over solar cash.
In 2025, Earth Will Be Solar Powered
“No longer for the environmentally conscious; it is for the masses.”
Shining Light On That Solar Panel Shortage
File this under good news masquerading as bad.
Deal With It: The Legend of Korra
“I am certainly proud to add Korra to the pantheon of TV characters, which is perpetually sorely lacking in multifaceted female characters who aren’t sidekicks, subordinates or mere trophies for male characters,”
SunPower, KB Home Bring Energy Storage to Solar Suburbs
Resilience is what has propelled solar power to the renewable energy forefront.
Legend of Korra Can Save Us From Ourselves
We are accelerating toward a real-time extinction the show could help us solve, should we choose to embrace it.
SolarCity’s Manufacturing Shifts Solar Boom
Did I mention that Silevo is locally sourced down the street from SunPower in California?
US-China War Bad News for Home Solar
The solar war backstory is lame enough to keep short.
Microgrids 101, In Three Parts
Micrqogrids are essential defenses for a dawning age of distributed generation capable of surviving the sudden, expensive superstorms of climate change.
The Future of Microgrids
But much of the changes we need will come from customers who can’t get what they want from the grid, concluded Asmus. “Ten years out, microgrids will be an everyday, non-controversial decision.”
EPA Climate Regulations Strengthen Solar
State or federal, the plan should be solar, argued SEIA.
People and Places Making Microgrids Work
Current efforts by utilities to stifle cleantech takeovers of the macrogrid, from solar taxes to worse, are being successfully fought off, as global warming throws ever more challenges in the way.
Microgrids: A Cleaner, More Resilient Grid
Microgrids make sense for a world where lighter and cleaner is better. Especially if you want to pack an increasingly powerful punch on a destabilized planet with problems.
Renewables Dethrone Dinosaur Utilities
“The question is not if or even when the change will come, but rather, how fast.”
National Climate Assessment: Step Off The Gas, Step Up The Solar
“It does not evaluate mitigation technologies or policies or undertake an analysis of the effectiveness of various approaches.”
Backward Policies Won’t Stop Solar Boom
Why on earth is anyone thinking about pulling the sunshine plug?