PACE Bonds are small municipal loans that allow property owners to increase their home or building's energy efficiency with little to no upfront cost.
Find out how Sarah Beatty, a determined new green business woman, has earned Green Depot's moniker as America's leading one-stop shop for building solutions.
Dozens of private industry executives, investors, and business leaders from the clean technology sector have delivered a letter to the US Senate calling for swift congressional action on an American Clean Energy & Security Act.
New York may be on the verge of becoming a world leader in energy efficiency. Working late into the night, the State Senate passed the historic Green...
Did you know that the diesel engine was originally invented to run on vegetable oil? Or that ethanol was the preferred fuel for Henry Ford's Model T?
Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an over-sized effect on our human world.
China could tighten its control over metals essential for a wide array of green technologies, raising the specter of a unilateral OPEC for rare earth metals.
Last month I attended a pivotal event: the opening of the Omega Center for Sustainable Living, a progressive environmental center slated to be the first certified "Living Building" in the United States.
Like everything we consume, beer has an environmental footprint -- sometimes a significant one. The good news is that there are breweries, big and small, that are doing their part to consume less while making sure the beers still taste great.
Mobile couponing growth has been explosive. Better technology has made it easier for brands to embrace this new method of communication.
Preserving books is one of our most important duties if we are going remain relevant in the eyes of future societies.
On Monday, Joe Romm of Climate Progress publicly attacked us for publishing an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle called "Will America lose the clean energy race?"
I was in Iceland last week, and in addition to eating some delicious marinated whale steaks, I came across this house under construction in Reyjkavik with awesome geothermal coils.
My loneliness is crystal clear. I call it the Big Empty. Awareness and acceptance will have to do as my prayer.
Having spent more than two decades pushing back against the sometimes appreciable damage that "greenwashed" products can wreak, I think a green product certifying agency has a lot of merit.
The salient and problematic underlying political reality is that it climate change the culmination of longstanding processes of colonization and realpolitik.
Homebuilding needs to join the 21st century and apply the best, efficient technologies to lower costs and reduce energy and resource consumption.
NYC utilities provider Con Edison estimates that if 1,000 businesses keep their doors open, they are wasting 4,600 barrels of oil and releasing 2,200 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Two reports conducted by four cooperating groups show that investing in sustainability (energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy retrofits) c...
On Sunday, the first day of Summer, San Francisco is giving birth to Solar Day. If you won't be in the Bay Area, consider creating your own solar celebration.
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