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.
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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.
I’m Just An Ordinary Alien: An Interview With Sean Lennon
As the dust of the 20th century the Beatles dominated depixelates into memory, Lennon is quietly hacking their legacies to create lasting multimedia of his own.
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?
Turning Farms Into Solar Farms
Consolidating precious natural resources in a warming world is a must.
Americans Want Solar to Replace Fossil Fuels
Navigant’s poll results hit the presses this week alongside the IPCC’s terrifying tale of two futures.
Renewable Energy Can Save Us From Climate Change
No one on the planet, the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report reminds us, will be left untouched.
Countries Embrace Renewable Energy Future
The International Energy Agency’s new report says global integration of variable renewable energies (VRE) like solar and wind into our obsolete power systems is just a matter of time.
Solar’s Role In The Climate Change Talkathon
America got a much-deserved earful when over two dozen Democratic senators pulled an all-nighter in Congress to shine a light on catastrophic climate change. About solar, specifically,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Obama Administration Invests $60 Million In Solar Technology
The U.S. government has managed to scrape together $60 million for essential research and development.
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.