Solar Power

Can L.A. Go Solar?

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has an ambitious plan to get L.A. to go solar. Still, without a proper financial analysis, skeptics find it too lofty to be true.
30 November 2008 - 9:00am
Los Angeles Times

Financing Solar Power

Berkeley, CA was one of the first cities to use special utility districts to fund the switch to solar power in their community. Now the man behind the plan is trying to make the financing system national.
25 November 2008 - 12:00pm
East Bay Express

Solar Doesn't Have To Be Ugly

Architect Stephen A. Mouzon illustrates one way to create solar power without making your home ugly, which he says is imperative to the future of green energy.
17 November 2008 - 10:00am
The Original Green Blog

Balloons, The New Green Power

A start-up in Livermore, CA is generating buzz with its plan to generate power from thousands of aluminum-coated balloons.
10 November 2008 - 10:00am
Fortune

Building the 'Electranet'

Al Gore did in fact invent the 'electranet', or at least he coined the term to explain the necessity of a new smart grid to transmit electricity from new, green sources like wind and solar. GOOD Magazine reports on the state of the electranet.
31 October 2008 - 1:00pm
GOOD Magazine

Rays of Hope

Solar energy initiatives are taking off all across the country, despite some reservations over the impacts of large-scale installations.
31 October 2008 - 11:00am
AlterNet

A Big Idea: Solar-Powered Cargo Ships

Toyota has hired two firms to build solar panels to augment the diesel engines on their car-carrying behemoths. The result will be a cut in CO2 emissions of 1 to 2 percent per year, or about 20 tons.
4 September 2008 - 7:00am
Wired

Concentrating Solar

Concentrating solar, or 'solar thermal', is an old technology getting an update as solar power spreads across the Southwest.
24 August 2008 - 9:00am
The Christian Science Monitor

Huge Solar Power Plants Proposed in California

Solar power will get a big boost from two facilities planned for California, which will together be capable of generating 800 megawatts of power.
21 August 2008 - 6:00am
The New York Times

Fed Un-Freezes Solar Power

The Bureau of Land Management has reversed course on a proposed moratorium on the construction of solar projects on public land.
3 July 2008 - 2:00pm
Las Vegas Sun

Fed Freezes Solar Power

The Bureau of Land Management, with a pile of solar power plans on its desk, declares a moratorium on building on public land until they can do environmental impact studies.
30 June 2008 - 8:00am
The New York Times

Solar Home Overshadowed by New Construction: Is There a 'Right to Light'?

Planners in Saskatchewan, Canada encouraged the Schewes to build solar panels on their roof and go off the grid. Then they okayed a home next door that overshadowed the Schewes. Do homeowners have a 'right to light'?
14 June 2008 - 11:00am
Canwest News Service

A Green And Solar Roof How-To

The installation of a green roof and solar array on the rooftop of the new WGBH building in Boston is captured on video.
27 May 2008 - 12:00pm
The Boston Globe

New State Laws Making It Easier To Build Green

States are helping homeowners who want to have a more eco-friendly lifestyle by overturning homeowner association regulations that ban solar panels and wind turbines.
12 May 2008 - 11:00am
USA Today

Summer Heat May Thaw Frozen Winter Roads

Officials in the United Kingdom are looking at a new technique to deal with frozen winter roads -- by collecting and saving summer heat.
27 April 2008 - 9:00am
The Guardian
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