Patrick James
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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San Francisco Will Pioneer Electric Bike Sharing
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Make it by Monday: A DIY Valentine's Day
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
Tomorrow evening at GOOD, our friends from 1 Block Off The Grid are introducing their radical concept of community group purchasing of solar to...
We've already told you about One Block Off the Grid's efforts to encourage communities to install solar panels, and now Treehugger reports that...
For decades, Xcel Energy has provided Boulder, Colorado, with electricity. But the city wasn't getting what it wanted—enough clean energy.
You've probably heard about our outdated energy grid and the need to create a new, "smart" one. Here's what the problem-and a possible...
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...
If implemented by 2030, a smart grid could have incredible effects on our energy use and carbon emissions.
The day will come when solar power isn't just for treehugging eccentrics, but is as cheap, or cheaper, than buying electricity from the grid. This...
NPR just released an extremely good interactive map that shows how America makes and moves electricity. You can see what our current electrical...
Yesterday, Obama announced he'd be giving $3.4 billion in stimulus funds to projects aimed at modernizing our outdated energy grid. The goal...
There's been lots of talk about building a "smart grid"-a new energy transmission infrastructure that would cut down on wasted energy, reduce...
A smart energy grid—which can measure usage and help efficiently manage power grids—could reduce power costs and benefit the environment as...
If you’ve heard the term "smart grid" but aren’t sure what it means or how it pertains to you, a new website will help bring you up to speed on...
This cool, if wonky, chart from 1366 Technologies shows just how close solar energy is to the current electric grid costs.
Interesting tidbit from a New York Times story about protesting in Iran: "A flier circulating in Tehran... asked people to turn on all their...
If we start switching over to plug-in electric vehicles, that will represent a huge change in our use of electricity, and there are questions...
On August 14, 2003, the Northeastern and Midwestern United States were hit by the biggest blackout in the nation's history. In total,...
A new proposal by AMO, the thinktank arm of architect Rem Koolhaas's firm OMA, has a plan to make the United States carbon-neutral by 2050. The...
The smart grid has the potential to revolutionize how we use electricity. But there's a catch: We need to make it invulnerable to hackers.
What will happen when we all plug in our electric cars at the same time?n
An effective smart-grid infrastructure would mean less consumption, lower bills, fewer power plants and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
