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Silicon Valley becomes Solar Valley
How the tech bubble people are now rushing to become the solar valley people....
Don’t bother with solar backpacks
Solar panels embedded in bags and briefcases, just don’t do a very good job yet....
Germany tops world solar league
Germany has 200 times the installed solar capacity of Great Britain. Its all because they buy solar electricity at a sensible rate....
MIT does zero-carbon home
Early sketch of MIT’s Solar 7 Members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solar Decathlon team head out for Washington, D.C. next week taking wit...
$100 barrel looms again
Renewables, please OPEC is once again under pressure to boost production ahead of a winter supply crunch in northern Europe. The group decided to hike a small a...
Eco con trick
New line of wind power credit cards may help your conscience but they won’t help the planet....
Home Depot’s solar deal spurned on net.
Reputational issues BP Solar this week tried to take us a step closer to mass-market off-grid living. The solar energy giant announced the availability of its h...
China endorses off-grid future
China will provide electricity to remote regions and alleviate fuel shortages in rural areas through renewable energy microgrids....
Energy and global warming
The Intergovernmental Climate Change Panel’s 2007 low-end temperature prediction for this century is a 3.6...
Solar Decathlon
Last year’s battle Teams from 20 universities have spent the summer building enough homes for an entire solar village. The off-grid, self-powering homes w...
Zero carbon living
The meaning of Zero carbon living – 5 tips on how to do it and what are the tax advantages going to be....
Green Gadgets of 2008
Even Apples may turn green You might think the very idea of green gadgets is self defeating. After all its just more consumption, right? Wrong The best kind of ...