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.
Reviews
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.
Winners and Losers in U.S. Energy Efficiency
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s state energy efficiency scorecard is out, and the winners remains winners while the losers are losing less.
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.“
Neurio Promises Smart, Efficient Home
For all the hype, smart housing is still in search of greater data integration and analysis.
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.
Obama Administration Invests $60 Million In Solar Technology
The U.S. government has managed to scrape together $60 million for essential research and development.
Next Home Solar Frontier? Heating And Cooling
America needs solar alternatives more than ever.
Why Is Solar The Bad Guy In CPUC’s Report?
It’s a bold claim and a startling number. But both are wrong.
Life To The Pixies!
Unbowed, the Pixies’ reconstructed band, and brand, now soldiers ahead with street and market cred to spare.
Seven States Leading Clean Energy‘s Charge
Here’s a refresher on the realities of recent green blooms in red states and blue, including some who may be worse polluters than you think.
Why Does Jon Stewart Cower Before Power?
Jon Stewart has changed late-night television for the smarter, but The Daily Show’s satire kingpin has a way of cowering before powerful people when they come on his set for interviews.
What The Force? Disney Can Protect Star Wars, Says Fandom, George Lucas
Can an independent visionary who created a vast sci-fi entertainment multiverse really think that a pop-culture multinational can better protect his brainchild? You bet your asteroids, kid. And he’s not alone.
Exclusive: Boots Riley Brings a Guillotine to Oz
The Coup‘s frontman is looking for our nation’s heart and power, as the 2012 general election nears.
We Are Bilbo, Heading Off To Perpetual War
It is no irony that Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of Tolkien’s work have arrived in a world at war
Genndy Tartakovsky Schools Hollywood On Cartoon Physics
“We moved to completely copying realism. Maybe this is a good time to start going back to the old ways, where anything can happen.”
Geek The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Reboots For Millennials
One man’s crap made-for-TV movie becomes another fan’s Pythonesque art trip, and the popular tastes of the ensuing decades makes up the difference. Who’s your Walrus now?
Prince of Cats Is Straight Outta Shakespeare
Like many culture vultures, Wimberly is something of a reboot specialist.
Exclusive: Frankenweenie Reanimates Vincent Price
Price’s influential spirit inhabits some small or large part in almost everything Tim Burton has ever made.
The Inventor Electrifies Nikola Tesla
“Tesla’s true story is more surreal than any fictional account I’ve seen of him.”
Maus Creator Art Spiegelman Joins Occupy Comics’ Growing Chorus
“The image I drew over a decade ago seems to still be relevant,” Spiegelman said. “Occupy is one of the most significant things happening that could actually bring hope and change to our ravaged nation.”
Wait, Did Before Watchmen Just Call Watchmen Terrible?
When it comes to comics, asserting that all of these things are true is often the same as saying none of them are true.
DJ Shadow Ready For Total Breakdown
“As long as the old stuff is given a context and doesn’t overshadow the new, I think it’s a healthy exercise for me, and one that recalibrates me for whatever new musical path lies ahead,” said Shadow.
Nine Earth Day Films That Will Make You Think
From rapidly acidifying oceans and shortsighted deforestation to perpetually pollutive wars and the propping up of obsolete markets, Earth is taking killer blows that we’re going to seriously regret delivering.