At 11:00pm, EST, November 4, Barack Obama was officially declared the presumptive 44th President of the United States of America. Congratulations, Senator Obama! There’s no way of knowing what the four years of his term will bring to the nation, or the world, or really even to the solar industry: but during his campaign, the [...]

This news is rather old, but please bear with me: the World Bank announced four weeks ago that its funding for renewable energy and energy-efficient projects and programs in developing nations increased by 87 percent over the past fiscal year. For the year ending June 30, 2008, the World Bank had committed a total [...]

While solar power has proven to be profitable and easily adopted in developed nations, it is also one of the renewable energies most suitable for the developing world. Countries such as India, Brazil, and Nigeria, where sunlight is plentiful and the costs of climate change are likely to be high, are well suited to adopting [...]

Lately, the air quality in Beijing has been astonishingly pleasant. For the past three weeks, when the skies haven’t been a sunny cerulean, they’ve been a rainy shade of gray, more cool than the usual muggy. Even when I was in the neighboring countryside two weekends ago, the difference between the rural and urban air [...]

The Bureau of Land Management has put a freeze on applications for solar installations on public land in the Southwest.

London proposes a cable car to cross the Thames instead of a bridge, significantly reducing the crossing’s carbon impact.

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 [...]

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.

We’ve always known that our institutions of higher learning are home to some of our brightest citizens. Galvanize them with the prestige of an award and the thrill of competition, and it’s likely that the results won’t disappoint. Perhaps this is precisely what the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency reasoned when they [...]

Yesterday, the U.N. and the World Blank announced plans for a task force to address skyrocketing food prices worldwide (Forbes.com).
The food price shock now roiling world markets is destabilizing governments, igniting street riots and threatening to send a new wave of hunger rippling through the world’s poorest nations. It is outpacing even the Soviet grain [...]