Doing Justice to Climate Activism Michael Wolkind is the lawyer who defended the Greenpeace activists for disrupting operations at a British...
A major obstacle to improving health and business in rural Africa is a lack of connectivity. In some nations, 95 percent of the population lives...
Lawn Mower Fritz Haeg knows a thing or two about fecundity. It's not just that the artist has been impressively prolific in a variety of...
Taking Stock of the Sun The challenges facing a widespread shift to solar power are not small: Complicated physics, materials shortages, and...
All for Solar If you work with your neighbors, you can get solar panels at a bulk discount. Americans want solar panels-80 percent of us do,...
The day will come when solar power isn't just for tree-hugging eccentrics and the trendy rich-when it becomes as cheap as or cheaper than the...
Here Comes the (Chinese) Sun: How Chinese innovation is going to revolutionize solar power for the rest of the world Residents of the city of...
A Case Study In New York, the Solar One education center-the city's only stand-alone solar building-and its I Heart PV campaign are working...
Fake Plastic Trees Some 2.4 billion years ago, tiny blue-green algae figured out a neat trick. Using sunshine, water, and carbon dioxide, they...
Here's a conundrum: If solar power is still prohibitively expensive even in the richest nations on the planet, how will it ever spread to the...
There aren't too many places in the world where you can't buy a Coke, and that includes some of the remotest parts of developing countries....
Garage Talk The lauded nonprofit TED's "Ideas Worth Spreading" series is truly inspirational. Through its legendary talks and annual...
Now in its third year, the Designers Accord-the so-called "Kyoto Treaty of Design"-continues to recruit members under the promise of positive...
To the Gardener Go the Spoils Last century, the necessity of supporting our troops during the First and Second World Wars inspired so-called...
Endanger Is Their Middle Name If you've ever wondered how the polar bear became the de facto global-warming mascot, look no further than the...
Blonde Ambition How the polarizing politician has successfully reinvented herself. Again. Whatever you think about Hillary Clinton, you no...
Design Can Save The World But only if it's excellent Emily Pilloton is an architect and designer, the founder of Project H, and the author...
Dear Old People Who Run the World, My generation would like to break up with you. Every day, I see a widening gap in how you and we...