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Environment
How Electric Delivery Trucks Could Help Renewable Energy Succeed
If delivery fleets went electric, any truck on a city street could provide storage and stability to the grid.
Environment
The Next Generation of Renewable Energy May Be Created Under Water
When reporters, politicians, and environmental advocates talk about renewable energy, they talk about wind and solar. This makes sense: Of the...
Environment
America Is Getting More Power from Renewables than From Nuclear
Renewable energy had a good year in the United States in 2011.
Environment
Where Should We Build Utility-Scale Solar Power Plants?
It's accepted fact that solar projects will continue to multiply, but it's unclear where they'll all be built.
Environment
What If Electric Cars Could Charge Without Plugs?
MIT researchers developed a technique for wireless charging for years ago. Now it could be used for electric cars.
Environment
Massachusetts Shows the Way to Saving on Electricity Costs
Greater energy efficiency means more money to spend on health care, education, and basics like groceries. And Massachusetts is leading the way.
Environment
How Manure-to-Energy Projects Make the Best Out of a Stinky Situation
Waste-to-energy projects make the best of the world we have. Manure becomes electricity. Steel gas becomes jet fuel. Garbage power people's homes.
Environment
The End of the Power Cord: Solar and Typing-Powered Laptops
A new solar laptop could free computers from their power cords. And in the future, the pressure created by typing could be used to charge batteries.
Education
Meet the World's First Solar Powered Study Lantern
Thanks to this solar lantern, for less than $10, students living without electricity could have light to study by when the sun goes down.
Environment
Mini-Nuclear Reactors: A Cheaper, Risk-Free Solution?
Could small, modular nuclear reactors really be a clean, affordable, and safe energy solution?
Environment
The Dirty Energy Powering Your Web-Based Life
A new Greenpeace report show just how much energy it takes to run our internet lives.
Business
Infographic: The High-Energy Cost of Getting High
For 4/20 (a date we hear has meaning for marijuana enthusiasts), we take a look at all the electricity it takes to grow America's indoor pot.
Cities
U.K. Neighborhood Records Its Electricity Use on the Street
A group of residents in Brighton are recording their daily electricity use on a giant infographic painted on the sidewalk outside their homes.
Environment
Not So Kind: Weed Growers Suck Down 1 Percent of All U.S. Electricity
All those grow lights, it turns out, inhale enough juice to power 2 million American homes.
Environment
Interactive Map: The Real Seismic Threat to Our Nation's Nuclear Power Plants
This great interactive map from Climate Central lets you see the specific seismic threat to all 104 of the country's active nuclear reactors.
Lifestyle
Feast Your
EyesEars: Forks That Make Music with Your FoodCould a musical fork change the way we eat? Watch as researchers at Japan's Ochanomizu University demonstrate chicken skin vibrato.
Environment
GOOD Video: Coal Country
Nearly half of America's electricity still comes from coal, and we're burning through it by the trainload. An original GOOD Video.
Environment
Why Does Georgia Import Expensive Coal While Exporting Home-Grown Biomass?
A Union of Concerned Scientists slideshow exposes the absurdities of electrical utilities' reliance on coal.
