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Here's how to keep your factory, school, or commercial building climate controlled without fossil fuels, with no upfront investment.
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Evans Wadango invented a solar LED lantern and is giving away thousands to rural families throughout his native Kenya. Not bad for a 23-year old.
It's great when technology gives an everyday household banality an entirely new life.Such is the case with this wallpaper that changes according...
Savvy speculators cash in as the world burns.
Backpedaling, frustration, and, finally, hope in international climate relations The Kyoto Protocol is set to expire in 2012. A global...
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a...
A couple of scientists over at MIT have come up with something novel and potentially very useful: They've figured out how to harvest body heat to...
Researchers at Georgia Tech have recently found evidence that in decentralized and sprawling cities (such as Los Angeles), the frequency of very...
A borough council in England is considering an idea some find creepy: Heating a pool with warmth from an adjacent crematorium.
There are better ways to beat the heat than artificially cooling a building. And even for those not ready to go A/C-less, options abound.
At Vermont’s Green Mountain College, students designed and built a chicken coop that helps heat the college farm's greenhouse.
It's in the shadow of Copenhagen, but Obama's first trip to China could prove to be a real turning point in climate legislation. Last week, the...
It's not every day that a friend and mentor is interviewed on Letterman. Nor is it every day that any climate change expert or advocate is...
Those Scandinavians have done it again. Excess body heat in Stockholm's Central Station is being used to heat a building across the street.
Fungi that live in 150-degree compost piles love heat, are good at breaking plants down, and could help make biofuels more efficiently.
We're not entirely sure, it turns out. For a long time now, climatologists have believed that the contrails–those white vapor trails left by...
On August 14, 2003, the Northeastern and Midwestern United States were hit by the biggest blackout in the nation's history. In total,...
In Helsinki, Finland, water from the Baltic Sea cools a database server center in the former bomb shelter in this cathedral. Then, the hot...
