On the hot, sweeping deserts of Rhajastan, India has built the world’s largest solar farm – and they aren’t even done yet. The 2.5 GW solar farm, known as the Bhadla Solar Park, is just one small part ...

This is undeniably cool, but just to be clear: I’m not going up in Tomás Saraceno’s solar-powered air balloon made of garbage bag material. Yours either, if you build one. And you can build one, ...

China issued an update on its solar progress this week and made every other solar-seeking country around the world feel kind of pathetic. The National Energy Board said 5.04 GW was installed in the ...

Method Homes is a Seattle manufacturer of modular prefab homes that emphasize sustainability and variety. They currently offer eight different design series from several different architectural firms, ...

Both hydropower and conventional thermal combustion electricity is depleted in a hotter new climate. A new paper published at Nature Climate Change, Power-generation system vulnerability and ...

For the first time, U.S. Army soldiers are receiving specialized training on how to use generators with solar-power capability before heading to Afghanistan. The Army says these generators save lives ...

The Bronx, known as the birthplace of hip-hop and the home of the Yankees, will soon lay claim to a new, and unexpected, title: the home of solar innovation. Via Verde, “The Green Way,” an 18-story, ...

The fight over the immediate future of wind energy policy in the U.S. ended with victory for the industry late Tuesday night when the House followed the Senate’s lead and passed a fiscal cliff deal ...

It wasn’t just the threat of the expiring production tax credit that drove the U.S. wind power industry to a record-breaking year in 2012; wind was a competitve form of energy, and utilities wanted it ...

If you drive an electric vehicle in Illinois, you’re going to get a little shock when it comes time for your annual vehicle registration. Last weekend, the Illinois National Assembly approved raising ...

Staying active can be challenging when you have a computer-based job. So what is the solution? A standing desk. After all sitting is the new smoking. Standing desks give you the ability to move more ...

As most school kids learn in elementary science class, dark objects tend to absorb the sun’s rays and heat up faster than light objects, which reflect more of the sun’s energy. Green building ...