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Clean Energy Economy Yields Significant Job Growth at all Skill Levels
The number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and...
The Mother of All Efficiency Retrofits: the Empire State Building Goes Green
The Empire State Building will get a green face lift. A planned $20 million retrofit of the skyscraper...
Stimulus Package has Green for Clean Energy
The government is pulling out all the stops to get the economy's heart beating again, including a large clean energy investment that's part of...
California Wind Farms Providing Energy and Jobs
A new crop of wind turbines will be generating not only electricity but steady income for refugees of the ravaged housing and automotive...
Obama Ready to Go With Green Energy Plans
Green energy and proponents were elated on Thursday by President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus speech, which asked Congress "to act without delay" to pass...
Investment in Clean Energy Hit Record High in 2007
Prompted by climate change concerns, surging oil prices and continuing anxiety over energy security, investment in renewable energy and energy efficient reached a record...
Corporations Mimic Rainforest Efficiency While Creating Profits
In natural systems like rainforests, one creature's waste is another's food, and virtually nothing is lost forever. Contrast this highly efficient natural system with...
Hitachi Rail Develops Battery Unit Set to Decarbonize Rail Travel on Retrofitted Trains
The first test trial in Britain's history of a diesel-powered train retrofitted with a battery took place last Friday.
The train's battery unit, which generates...
New Sustainable Florida Homes Survived Hurricane–as Nearby Homes Were Devastated–and Never Lost Power
These cute little Florida townhomes are tougher than they look. While they may be as green as a budding daffodil, they have a backbone...
‘Healthy Food’ Isn’t Always Healthy for All: Learn Valuable Info About Your Gut Microbiome With Home Test Kit
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Are tomatoes healthy? Avocados? Nuts? According to Viome, a health tech company, there is no such thing as a universally-healthy food: What's healthy...
Airbnb Will Chip In for Its Hosts’ Green Upgrades
In May, Airbnb began helping its hosts in Massachusetts afford climate-friendly or energy-efficient home improvements, such as insulation, rooftop solar arrays, or heat pumps.
Airbnb...
10,000 Bricks With Built-in Bird Homes Installed in UK Homes to Give Nest Holes to Swifts
Tiny birds in the UK are being given free tenements from real estate development companies by installing "swift bricks" in new buildings around the...
Are There Any Environmentally-Friendly Air Conditioners Out There? (Some Good News)
Reprinted via EarthTalk®, From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine
Are there any environmentally friendly air conditioners out there?
Traditional air conditioning units consume...
These ‘Invisible’ Solar Panels Appear Just Like Historic Italian Terracotta Roofs and Can Help Green Historic Buildings
In the historic Italian city of Vicenza, Veneto, a typically-Italian family business of artisans is handmaking not-so-typical solar panels.
Designed to be indistinguishable by the...
Engineers Turn Water into Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel Using Solar Radiation
A carbon-neutral synthesis of kerosene, or jet fuel, has been produced by scientists, made by combining sunlight with water.
5% of human emissions are generated...
Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce More Food in the Dark Than With Sunshine
Photosynthesis has evolved in plants for millions of years to turn water, carbon dioxide, and the energy from sunlight into plant biomass and the...
EU Smashes 2020 Climate Target, Records 34% Drop in Emissions to Lowest Level Since 1990
Total greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union reached their lowest level since 1990, according to official EU data reported this week by the...
Turning Seawater Into Drinking Water – With the Push of a Button
MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water.
The suitcase-sized...
Cup Cozy Inspired by a Squid’s Skin Will Keep Your Hands Cool and Your Coffee Hot – And it’s Sustainable
In the future, you may have a squid to thank for your coffee staying hot on a cold day. Drawing inspiration from cephalopod skin,...
40 Percent Say Their New Year’s Resolutions Involve Being Greener in 2022, According to Poll
Four in 10 Brits claim their 2022 New Year's resolutions involve being greener, according to a new poll.
A survey of 2,000 adults found 27...