News: Telegraph.co.uk
For the London Olympics in 2012, the planners are trying to go green. One of their newest ideas, in addition to dissuading attendees from driving to the event, is to make the fuel source of the Olympic flame something more environmentally friendly than the usual paraffin.
It’s a nice gesture, but of course it won’t [...]

Retractable floors, solar-paneled louvres surrounding the entire house, a home so efficient that passive heating and cooling could meet the needs of the occupants almost entirely without support from power sources, not to mention the nifty television that turns into a mirror when it’s not wanted. You have to hand it to the Technische Universitat [...]

Long lines, hot sun, and shrieking hordes of schoolchildren: this is not what getsolar expected of the DOE’s mid-October Solar Decathlon, being held this week on the Mall in Washington, DC, but that’s what we got. Getsolar sort of wished there had been cotton candy and skeeball, too, but we made do with with interactive [...]

News: New York Times
A New York Times article about rising energy prices and increased scarcity shows us that we have a pressing issue on all of our hands.