US Solar Grows Thirty Percent In 2014
America installed a record 6.2 gigawatts of solar capacity last year.
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European Union Gases Itself
It’s time to stop making the wrong energy choices, argues the EU.
Making Utilities More Efficient
The more, the merrier.
Indiana Solar’s Koch Problem
There are too many obstacles standing in the way of the inevitable.
SunShot Initiative Invests Another $59 Million
With the price of oil cratering, throw millions at solar power to see what works.
Solar Can Solve Our Food and Water Crises
When it comes to life on Earth’s essential needs, fossil fuels are an absolute waste.
Oil Gives Solar a Moment in the Sun
You know you’ve arrived when the bigshots pay attention.
Cli-Fi: Director Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea
Like his Oscar-nominated feature debut The Secret of Kells, his new stunner Song of the Sea is steeped in regional folklore but still a universal wonder. But it is a more personal epic, about the extinction of mythological seal people called Selkies, as explored through a lighthouse family riven by loss and misunderstanding but healed by history and magic.
Cli-Fi: Peace On Earth’s Intertextual Extinction
Adults and children rarely see the Real World as it is, much less as it should be. If what they see is what makes them who they are, then they should watch Peace On Earth before every new year.
Grant Morrison’s Multicultural, Intertextual Multiversity
“gnaw at the very roots of Batman’s being, fuck up the private lives of his friends and relatives, make him doubt his raison d’etre, set his postal district on fire and blow up his cave.”
Earth’s Three Big Energy Threats, and the Countries Most Ready to Face Them
It’s not like we don’t have the money.
Elon Musk’s Vision for a Clean Energy Future
Musk’s future industries understand convergence as a first principle.
Home Solar Isn’t Just For The Rich
Solarization isn’t just a one-percenter phenomenon.
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.
Revolutionary Patience: An Interview With Vashti Bunyan
Bunyan’s long journey and hushed paeans to family are existential lessons wrapped in three sonic chapters.
Solar Drones Take Off
We might as well make them run on sunshine.
(Still) Memorializing Hyperreality
Which seams were splitting? Those separating reality and hyperreality.
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,”
Clinton Initiative Boosts Solar Carports
PACE solar financing has caught the attention of a certain well-connected president.
Fossil Fuel’s State Fight Against Solar
Petrochem billionaires Charles and David Koch are spending and lobbying like mad.