Coyote Springs Land Company And a new home for solar power.
What to do when building a 159,000-home city in the Nevada desert and the housing market collapses?
Go solar.
The Coyote Springs Land Company this week expanded a deal with BrightSource Energy, a solar power developer based in Oakland, Calif., to carve out 12 square miles ...read more
In increasingly dense urban areas, sometimes the only way to build is up. And with a movement to grow more food locally and to add more green to our urban environments so too has grown the impulse to build skyscraper farms, solar tower parks and other unique and uncanny forms of vertical vegetecture such as ...read more
The Age of Stupid is a docu-drama by Franny Armstrong, which is meant to serve as a call to action regarding imminent climate change, highlights a devastated world in 2055 with only one survivor.
The film was released internationally on September 21st and 22nd at the “Global Premiere”. A green carpet, solar-powered cinema tent in New ...read more
On August 5th, the company eSolar opened the Sierra Sun Tower, the newest example solar power towers. According to the website of esolar, the Sierra facility supplies 5 MW of clean, renewable energy to the grid. As the only commercial CSP tower in the United States, supplies electricity to Southern California Edison (SCE) and will ...read more
Website: Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
Established in 1995, the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) is an ongoing project of the North Carolina Solar Center and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC). It is funded by the U.S. Department ...read more
By Harriet Blake
Green Right Now
Daryl Hannah brings a personal sweetness and actor’s intensity to the stage of environmentalism, a term she doesn’t like.
Like many environmental terms — green, eco, sustainability, organic – “companies have co-opted and glommed onto these words,” she told an audience in Fort Worth this week. Luckily, she says the public is ...read more
You may have heard about them: Off-the-gridders living in radical opposition to modern amenities by growing their own food and cutting themselves off from the rest of society. Not so. Sure, more people are choosing to cut their dependence on the power grid, the grocery story and fuel pump. But these new homesteaders are hardly ...read more
SAN JOSE, CA — In a partnership with IBM, Cisco and Pacific Gas & Electric, the City of San Jose has launched a project to add smart meters to 75,000 businesses and homes, while also expanding the amount of solar energy generated on buildings within ...read more
Getty Images Gov. Schwarzenegger announced his own goals for procuring energy from reneable sources on Tuesday.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order today requiring that the state get 33 percent of its electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind power by 2020.
The move establishes California’s as the strictest renewable requirement in the ...read more
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