Arizona Needs Solar Utilities
Protracted and unnecessary turf battles for utility and residential control of the state’s solar bounty could stall governor Jan Brewer’s emPOWER Arizona.
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Are You A Vet? Work For Solar
Over 13,000 military veterans now work within the sunshine industry, comprising over 9 percent of its quickly growing workforce. Mission accomplished.
Solar Growth Greens Industry Future
Solar stocks are astronomically higher than they were years ago. And so is your investment portfolio, if you have been brave enough to throw some skin into the game.
New EV Standard Boosts Solar Benefits
Our warming world’s citizenry starts driving and plugging in more and more electric vehicles into their greening homes. Should they have to worry about stressing out the utilities’ fickle grids?
Green Homes Market Slowly Improves
No matter how you slice and dice the data, construction is a prime driver of climate change, and that needs to change.
What Will Renewable Energy Look Like In 2030?
Like many others, the International Renewable Energy Association has released a global road map to clean energy.
What Will It Take To Solarize Detroit?
Poorly governed and neglected by turfy utilities, Michigan’s solar infrastructure is barely evolving.
SolarCity Crowdfunds The Solar Boom
In the last year, SolarCity’s common stock has gone supernova, from the $10s to the $70s at the speed of light.
Can Gamification Dent Home Energy Use?
Gamificationl is cool terminology. But despite its fuzzy logic, it continues to attract eyeballs and investment.
Pixies: Feel Bad For People Starting Out Now
Pixies are still making great music, and I’m happy to still be listening and interviewing them about it.
Opower Tops Home Energy Management
Navigant assessed 16 home energy management vendors using a proprietary methodology, and found that Opower’s product suite put it well out of the reach of its nearest smart-grid competitors.
Berkeley Lab: Rooftop Solar Raises Home Value
Despite its stronger portfolio power, nationwide residential solar is underrepresented in the housing industry.
Reducing Solar Soft Costs Means Tackling Labor
The United States is playing second accordion to Germany when it comes to bankrolling, innovating and deploying the solar infrastructure we need to better adapt to climate change.
Canada Gets Serious About Home Energy
Solar power can’t really achieve full liftoff until its information is analyzed and understood. Ultimately, that means decentralization from any overlords.
All Hail Sharon Jones, Unstoppable Soul Sister!
Although soul sister Sharon Jones is continually referred to as a throwback to a funkier 20th century, she’s here, now, and still fighting to bring more humanity (and less autotune) to our increasingly digital music. And we’re all the better for it.
Solar Liberator’s All-In-One System
Can we file this under too good to be true? A DIY, all-in-one crowdfunded solar power generator for those on the go and the stay?
Can Rewiring the Home for DC Power Increase Solar Adoption?
AC/DC evidently can just get along, long after Thomas Edison and Nikolai Tesla’s bitter war.
Terror and Terraformation: Alan Moore
“There’s something quaint about these attempts to control us today, in a period where we are boiling with information and complexity, both of which have reached levels that could be called fractal, if that wasn’t a polite way of saying chaotic.“
What Is Pre-Crime? Our Nationalist Pastime
Digital dragnets like Stellar Wind, PRISM and other psy-fi boondoggles have evidently not been surveilling enough of neither Us nor Them to predict or prevent terrorist attacks.
Bring Us the Jobs of Enviro Sellouts!
[This callout has been syndicated here on HuffPo.] After America’s Veteran’s Day militarism hangover, I scanned what few trustworthy journalism outlets are left but still couldn’t avoid the headhunters. They […]
Solar 4 America Brings Domestic Focus Home
Atlanta-based Suniva bills itself as the leading American manufacturer of home solar modules, with an emphasis on American.
Five Ways Elon Musk’s Future Industries Could Change the World
Tesla Motors, SolarCity and more are already helping save us all from a cli-fi apocalypse.
Here Comes the Sun Journo!
As I turned my back last year on writing about cultural, environmental, political, economic and other lofty concerns for money — because it wasn’t really paying any — I decided to plot another devious experiment.
Everything Looks Bright At The 2013 Solar Decathlon
Canada’s Pure Energies asked me to cover America’s latest solar conference, and it was shiny indeed.
The Squirrel King Aims For All-Ages Artcraft
In our hypermediated millennium, it’s often (way) too easy to watch rather than make. The Squirrel King wants you to do both.