If you read our blog regularly, you might have noticed that I’m always ranting about how solar needs to be popularized before it will really sweep the nation. Well, it’s not there yet, but the last couple of weeks have given me a bit of hope. For one thing, last week’s Democratic National Convention in [...]

Customers of nine California Sam’s Clubs can now purchase solar panel systems for their homes through Energy Efficiency centers inside the stores.

Is solar right for you? The first of two posts that will help you answer this question.

California signs a new law into action that makes it possible for local governments to offer low interest loans for residential solar installations.

This blog title could have been a headline for The Onion not so long ago. And yet now, it’s all in earnest. With oil topping $130 per barrel, a vehicle that gets somewhere around 10mpg suddenly seems like a burden rather than an asset. Remember when every new year seemed to bring another, bigger version [...]

Global warming will reduce the frequency of hurricanes in the Atlantic by the end of the century, reports a new study released yesterday online in the journal Nature Geoscience. A number of scientists have attributed recent increases in Atlantic hurricanes to the warmer waters resulting from climate change, yet research meteorologist Tom Knutson, one of [...]

It doesn’t take long much time in London to see the city’s attitudes towards a greener lifestyle.

In spite of the popularity of going green, we live in a country driven by car culture. We love our cars, our industries and our independence. Even if they were manufactured and assembled elsewhere, we adore our heavy-duty SUVs, our sleek sedans and our cute Hybrids—but above all, we love the freedom that a personal [...]

HGTV’s list of ways your home can save the planet turns out to be a shopping list. Getsolar.com wonders why renewable energy and conservation aren’t even mentioned.

The typically interesting Timothy Ferris, author of bestseller The 4-Hour Work Week, has come out with a great post about the return on investment for going green. It gets to the heart of a lot of what we talk about here, but, most importantly, it emphasizes the fact that responding to climate change is [...]