The Nation's Largest Rooftop Solar Installation

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• Environment

  

  Making "Virtual Worlds" to Get the Most of out Rooftop Solar

  Geostellar sends low-flying aircraft over the landscape to create detailed 3D maps that show where solar panels would pay off.

  by Ben Jervey

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• Environment

  

  Behold: America's Largest Solar Carport

  The nation's biggest solar carport is ready to go. Ecofriend reports: A massive 1MV grid-connected solar power system is ready to supply power to...

  by Andrew Price +

• Environment

  

  America's (New) Largest Solar Array

  A GlaxoSmithKline distribution center is set to strip that FedEx shipping center of the title of America's largest rooftop solar array.

  by Andrew Price +

• Lifestyle

  

  Mapping the Nation's Largest "Factory Farms"

  Food & Water Watch has released its latest map, charting the concentration of more animals on fewer and fewer of the nation's factory farms.

  by Peter Smith +

• Environment

  

  The World's Largest Concentrated Solar Plant Is Coming to California

  Plants like this one can replace coal. The planet might survive after all.

  by Ben Jervey

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• Environment

  

  Praise, the Lord! Vatican To Build Europe's Largest Solar Plant

  The tiniest nation in Europe-and for that matter, the world-is planning to build the continent's largest solar power plant. From...

  by Patrick James 8

• Environment

  

  Solar Decathalon Kicked Off the National Mall, Will Be Watched Over By MLK and FDR

  Check out the cool solar-powered designs that'll grace DC's National Parks this September.

  by Ben Jervey +

• News

  

  Photographing Government Installations That Don't Exist

  Trevor Paglen is trained as a geographer, so it fits that his work photographing covert government installations began when he noticed something...

  by Theo Schell-Lambert +

• Education

  

  View the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools' Public Art Installation

  The labyrinth, a public art installation at a public school in L.A., inspires creativity and artistic freedom.

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks +

• Culture

  

  Slovenian Artist Uses Plastic Bags and Cups for City-wide Art Installation

  Made from more than 40,000 plastic bags and 7,500 plastic cups, this monster winds its way through the streets of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

  by Zach Frechette +

• Environment

  

  Making Solar Sexy: SMIT's Amazingly Versatile and Attractive Solar Panels

  The SMIT team's new Tensile Solar Structures are lightweight, modular energy-generating systems, inspired by fabric architecture.

  by Ben Jervey +

• Environment

  

  Rooftop Bees

  With space at such a premium in Manhattan, New Yorkers are accustomed to thinking vertically when it comes to housing. Now bees are getting in...

  by GOOD, Matthew Waxman, MacKenzie Fegan, Erik Winkowski, Danielle Flug, Michael Schaubach, Morgan Currie, Lindsay Utz, Jody L +

• Environment

  

  Cheaper Solar Panels Are Causing a Solar Boom

  As prices for solar panels have dropped, more companies and utilities in the United States have decided to invest in solar.

  by Sarah Laskow

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• Environment

  

  Solar Mosaic: Bring Solar to Your Community for Just $100

  The new Solar Mosaic program in Oakland lets residents buy $100 shares of solar panel installations on the roofs of local schools and nonprofits.

  by Ben Jervey +

• Environment

  

  A Visual Feast of Rooftop Gardens

  I don't know what it is about overhead greenery that's so compelling, but Oobject's list of 12 Stunning Rooftop Gardens, a collection of photos...

  by Patrick James +

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  LOOK: Six Thousand Feet of Rooftop Vegetables

  New York City has very little land that is not covered with buildings, forcing New Yorkers to find innovative solutions if they want to keep...

  by Morgan Clendaniel +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Incredible Interactive Panorama of Sana'a Rooftops at Sunset

  On the heels of yesterday's Yemeni round-up, I highly recommend taking a look at this stunning interactive photo-feature by Stefan Geens, which...

  by Patrick James +

• Environment

  

  Rooftop Gardens Provide Food While Decreasing Energy Costs

  If it's flat, chances are an architect or environmentalist somewhere will want to plant vegetation on it. Green roofs? Been there. Vertical...

  by Alicia Capetillo +

• Environment

  

  Signs of the Enwhitenment: How Painting Rooftops Could Slow Climate Change

  Here's a stat that might blow your mind: "Painting 100 square feet of roof space white offsets the effect of one ton of CO2 emissions." So say a...

  by Zach Frechette +

• Environment

  

  The 10 Largest Earthquakes of the Last Century

  The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck the nation of Haiti on January 12, 2010 has begotten widespread devastation and unfathomable ruin,...

  by Patrick James +