The U.S. led the world in clean energy investment in 2011, but China retained the top spot in the latest Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index [PDF] from Ernst & Young, with the U.S. second ...

Most buildings that jump on the shipping container reuse trend tend to make the inherent boxiness part of the design; you can tell instantly that it’s a “container house” with a quick glance at the ...

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 ...

The production tax credit (PTC) for renewable energy didn’t shrivel up and blow away when Congress failed to include an extension with tax legislation passed earlier this month. The wind industry, ...

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, ...

A lot of news outlets have been carrying on about solar making up 100 percent of the power generation added to the U.S. grid in March, as though it were some kind of watershed event, a sign of great ...

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 ...

That recent report from Environment America Research & Policy Center, the one called “Lighting the Way: What We Can Learn from America’s Top 12 Solar States,” might need an update. Colorado is listed ...

Federal regulators gave the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) a stinging slap in the kisser yesterday, ruling that BPA acted unfairly in shutting off wind power this past spring when high flows on ...

There are some chores I’ve just never stopped hating. Dishes are one of them, making the bed is another. Although we’ve got a fairly new dishwasher it still takes some doing to get me motivated enough ...

On a single day last week shares in a Colorado-based mining company Molycorp rose dramatically by 12 percent on the stock exchange. The sudden investment in Molycorp was surprising because it related ...