2020 Is Our Last, Best Chance To Save The Planet
by Justin Worland: From our vantage point today, 2020 looks like the year when an unknown virus spun out of control, killed hundreds of thousands and altered the way we live day to day… [...]
Jane Goodall: Every Day You Live, You Impact The Planet
by Jane Goodall: Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall says that humanity’s survival depends on conservation of the natural world… […]
$100 billion “Universal Fiber” Plan Proposed By Democrats In Congress
by Jon Brodkin: Ambitious legislation would deploy 100Mbps symmetrical broadband throughout US… […]
Got Gökotta?
by Sarah Bowen: This Swedish practice will start your morning on the right note… […]
Coming Out Of The Crisis: A Safer, Healthier, Stronger New York
by Michael Sachse: COVID-19 has hit New York hard, and New York has responded with its trademark toughness and attitude… […]
23 Holy Places With A Deep Connection To Nature
by Anna Norris: Engulfed by nature… […]
Temperatures In An Arctic Siberian Town Hit 100 Degrees
by Scottie Andrew: An unprecedented heatwave in one of the coldest places on Earth just reached a distressing milestone… […]
How China’s Giant Solar Farms Are Transforming World Energy
by Chris Baraniuk: China is not only home to some of the biggest solar farms; its technology looks set to influence energy policy across the globe. But how feasible are these grand plans? […]
Electrification Of Transportation Sector Nears Tipping Point
by Megan Colonel: Transportation accounts for nearly 70 percent of U.S. oil consumption and 28 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions… […]
The Largest Electric Plane Ever To Fly
by Chris Baraniuk: As electric planes pass another milestone, Future Planet asks how long will it be before they are ready for everyday aviation? And just how far can they go? […]
US Poll Shows Broad Support For Renewables, Climate Measures
by Scott K Johnson: Latest Pew poll of 11,000 US adults shows (almost) everybody wants more solar… […]
California Approves First-Of-Its-Kind Rule On Electric Trucks And Vans
(CBS): California regulators approved new rules on Thursday that would force automakers to sell more electric work trucks and delivery vans… […]
Forest Bathe For Your Well-Being
by Desiree Bell: Shinrin-yoku was developed in 1982 in Japan for preventative health care and as healing medicine… […]
Cleaning Our Toxic World With Hemp
by Lex Pelger: Phytoremediation… […]
New Campaign Calls For All New Homes In 10 States To Be Built With Solar Panels
by (Renewable Energy World): In January 2020, California became the first state to require all new houses to be built with solar panels… […]
Spinning Reserve Displacement
by Sriram Emani: Using batteries for a more efficient and cleaner way to back up power… […]
‘Black Neutron Star’ Discovery Changes Astronomy
by Pallab Ghosh: Scientists have discovered an astronomical object that has never been observed before… […]
GE Will 3D Print The Bases Of Wind Turbines Taller Than Seattle’s Space Needle
by Jason Dorrier: If you’ve seen a wind farm in action, you know modern wind turbines are pretty awe-inspiring… […]
Xcel Proposes Almost $3B Energy Investment Plan To Fight COVID Job Losses And Reach Clean Energy Goals
by (Clarion Energy Content Directors): In response to the COVID-19 devastating impact on jobs… […]
How Elon Musk Aims To Revolutionize Battery Technology
by Justin Rowlatt: Elon Musk has perhaps the most exciting portfolio of businesses on the planet… […]
US Interior Department Approves Plan for the Largest Solar Project in U.S. History
This would be the 8th largest solar project in the world […]
New York To Pass ‘One Of The Most Aggressive Clean Energy Mandates In The Country’
by Jim Efstathiou Jr: New York is poised to pass its own version of the Green New Deal […]
U.S. Renewable Energy Consumption Surpasses Coal For The First Time In Over 130 Years
by Mickey Francis: In 2019, U.S. annual energy consumption from renewable sources exceeded coal consumption for the first time since before 1885… […]
EVs Could Surge In 2020s, Says Analyst, But Technology Breakthroughs Are Still Needed
The second half of the 2010s saw the rebirth of the battery electric vehicle (BEV) however… […]
The U.S. Can Get To 90% Clean Electricity In Just 15 Years
by Adele Peters: And by 2045, the electric grid could be entirely renewable… […]
Great Britain Becomes Europe’s Second Highest Producer Of Wind
(REW Team): Britain become the second highest producer of wind generation in Europe, surpassing Spain, according to data released by EnAppSys… […]
The Amazon: How Do We Heal A Burning Heart?
by Charles Eisenstein: Like a lot of people, I’ve been deeply affected by what’s been happening in the Amazon in 2019… […]
New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles In Electric Cars
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Electric cars had their biggest year ever in 2019… […]
Clean Energy News – Renewables
by Dan Gearino: The Kansas Supreme Court has provided a rare and sweet victory for renewable energy advocates in the state, with national implications… […]
Net Zero Energy Buildings
by Charles F. Kutscher: How to design whole communities that give as much as they take… […]
Fixing What’s Broken: If We Build a Moral Economy, The Future Will Be Better
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve been eagerly awaiting a return to normal… […]
Recent Australian Droughts May Be The Worst In 800 years
by Mandy Freund and Benjamin Henley: Australia is a continent defined by extremes, and recent decades have seen some extraordinary climate events… […]
The Great Medicine Wheel, Our Earth
by Rob Larson: This is a time of renewal, rebirth, and stretching to the sky… […]
Inside Clean Energy – Renewables
by Dan Gearino: One of the big debates in the regulation of renewable energy is about how best to compensate owners of rooftop solar for electricity they sell back to the grid… […]
Inside Clean Energy
by Dan Gearino: Battery storage is a vital part of a cleaner grid because it helps to fill in the gaps left by the fact that wind and solar are intermittent resources… […]
Solar Steel Production Research Scoops National Innovation Prize
by Sophie Vorrath: Research that promises to halve the greenhouse gas emissions produced by steel-making using heat from concentrated solar power has won the 2019 AMP Amplify Ignite competition… […]
General Motors Says It Is “Almost There” On Its Own Million Mile Battery
by Bridie Schmidt: American auto giant General Motors (GM) says it has, like Tesla, been working on a “million mile battery” and that it is “almost there”… […]
Buildings Consume Lots of Energy—Here’s How To Design Whole Communities That Give Back As Much As They Take
by Charles F. Kutscher: Although the coronavirus pandemic has dominated recent headlines, climate change hasn’t gone away… […]
A Human-Centric World of Work: Why It Matters, And How To Build It
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Long before coronavirus appeared and shattered our pre-existing “normal,” the future of work was a widely discussed and debated topic… […]
Coal’s Decline Continues With 13 Plant Closures Announced In 2020
by Benjamin Storrow: The fuel is increasingly uncompetitive with cheaper natural gas and renewable energy… […]
Planting Trees Doesn’t Always Help With Climate Change
By Michael Marshall: Reforestation is seen as a way to help cool the climate, sucking excess warming carbon out of the atmosphere. But it’s not always that simple… […]
Big Cost Swings Point To More Big Battery Storage, Less Pumped Hydro
by Giles Parkinson: The Australian Energy Market Operator is expected to make significant revisions to its 20-year blueprint for the national grid after conceding that the capital of costs new transmission links… […]
Spain Approves Push For 100% Renewables
by Joshua S Hill: Spain bans all new fossil fuel projects… […]
What Is The Future Of Cities?
(NPR): Over the last couple of weeks, some major companies have signaled that remote work is here to stay… […]
Use Less Coal, Save Money. Sounds Good, Right?
by Dan Gearino: I wrote this week about how Xcel Energy continues to be a trend-setter in the transition to clean energy… […]