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Environment
Why It's Time for You to Demand a Smart Meter
Developing a smart grid would save consumers money and conserve energy. But utility companies are dragging their feet.
Environment
The Military-Approved Portable Clean Energy Kit
Whatever you make of the military, it's pushing innovation in clean energy, and this new Mobile Renewable Power Station is leading the way.
Environment
Utilities Can't Convince Us to Save Energy—Can Facebook?
A new Facebook app will allow users to monitor, share, and compare information about their energy use.
Environment
The Power of the Smart Grid
If implemented by 2030, a smart grid could have incredible effects on our energy use and carbon emissions.
Technology
You Want Electric Cars? You Can't Handle Electric Cars
The New York Times examines what some cities-most of them in the San Francisco Bay Area-are doing to prepare for this new crop of plug-in cars,...
Culture
Anatomy of a "Smart" Word
Spiders, mobs, and power: An intelligent word trend takes off. I’ve seldom been told I dress smartly, but I have always felt like a smart guy....
Environment
How to Hook Up Your Home to the Smart Grid Today
This is your house on the smart grid. What the future of home appliances will look like when we're managing our electricity better.
Business
Lean and Clean: How One Company Makes Factories Greener and More Competitive
One company has figured out how to make energy more competitive, and more sustainable.
Business
In Oklahoma, a Utility's Smart Grid Leads the Way
An effective smart-grid infrastructure would mean less consumption, lower bills, fewer power plants and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Technology
Smart Grid Security: Keeping Hackers Out of Your Power Meter
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.
The Community Board
Empower The People: Energy Production For Everyone
Fast Company magazine covers the latest best and "next" practices in the business world. In their July 2009 article "Beyond The Grid," Pulitzer...
Environment
How Much Would a "Smart Grid" Reduce Carbon?
There's been lots of talk about building a "smart grid"-a new energy transmission infrastructure that would cut down on wasted energy, reduce...
Environment
Who Uses the Most Energy per Capita?
Yep, you're absolutely right! It's Qatar! The Economist tells us what should stand out here: ...what should stand out is that most of the...
Business
GOODCo Finalists: For a Cleaner Future, Three Firms Build a Smarter Grid
These three GOOD Company finalists are making our electrical infrastructure smarter.
Environment
Intelligent Transmission
A dummy's guide to the "smart grid" Wind turbines and solar panels may be the sexy, new stars of a clean energy future, but they'll be nothing...
Technology
Keeping Energy Use Down with the Joneses
A few utility companies have been trying pilot programs that show customers how their energy use compares with their that of their neighbors. It...
News
Al Gore's Five-Point Plan for Energy Independence
This weekend in The New York Times climate change Cassandra and Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore laid out five steps for helping the U.S. gain its...
Environment
Could Our Grid Handle 1 Million New Plug-in Cars?
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...
