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This Solar-Powered Tiny House Is Less Than $18K
At $17,999, this solar-powered tiny house costs less than most new cars but delivers something far more valuable: a legitimate path to off-grid living without the typical six-figure price tag. After reviewing dozens of prefab housing solutions over…
How Solar Energy Could Transform Geopolitics
In the month of May this year, China created more new wind and solar capacity than the electricity, from all sources, that Poland installed in the entirety of 2024. While part of the outlandishness of this statistic is because of companies racing…
Solar Desalination Electricity Plant Promises Power & Water, Can It Deliver?
What if solving three of the world's most pressing challenges, water scarcity, energy demand, and environmental sustainability, could be achieved with a single, innovative system? Imagine a technology that not only transforms seawater into fresh…
Why China's mega coal-fired power plants thrive amid green energy boom
Over the Hexi Corridor, a ribbon of fertile land on the edge of the Gobi Desert blessed by the Yellow River in western China, a gleaming forest of wind turbines and solar farms stretches to the horizon. This is Gansu, China's renewables frontier, a…
Modern Jobs : How To Make Over $100,000 A Year As A Shepherd
Fitchburg, MA - June 5: More than 200 sheep graze amidst 15,000 solar panels at the Fitchburg Renewables solar farm. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) When you think of shepherds, if you do at all, you probably think of…
5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10
Ten years ago the world came together to forge a path out of the climate emergency in the form of a global treaty dubbed the Paris Agreement. Under the accord, nations committed to keeping global temperatures to “well below” a…
Sustainability Sparks Calls for Industry Reform at International Film Festival of India: 'The Beginning of a New Era'
Sustainability in filmmaking isn't advancing fast enough, and real progress will require structural reform, cultural change, and mandatory standards — that was the blunt consensus from filmmakers across Japan, Spain, Australia and India at…
Pacific Ocean rowers turned their small boat into a floating farm - BBC News
How do you grow food on a small boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? It's a question Miriam Payne and Jess Rowe found themselves asking when preparing to row non-stop from South America to Australia. The answer was a 'smart farm' that allowed…
Trump's policies risk Texas' new solar and battery projects
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. President Donald Trump's policies targeting U.S. renewable…
Promising Canadian Stocks To Keep An Eye On - November 21st
5 High Short Interest Stocks Getting Squeezed With Upside To Go Canadian Natural Resources, Celsius, and Canadian Solar are the three Canadian stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Canadian stocks are shares of…
Nuclear Reactor Restart at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Plant Expected to Power Economic Growth
Movement has begun toward restarting the No. 6 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant within the current fiscal year. With the restart of a TEPCO nuclear reactor, which had long appeared…
Why now is the best time to invest in climate tech
Conventional wisdom suggests that climate tech is entering a winter season, where political and investor interest and investment levels are cooling — an ironic contrast with the climate itself, which keeps delivering years of record warmth.
Google Wants to Power Their Chatbots By Filling Our Skies With Garbage
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Earlier this month, Google researchers released a paper about “Project Suncatcher,” the company's research…
UCF cuts 57 jobs at renewable energy research center amid federal funding decline
ORLANDO, Fla. – The University of Central Florida has announced dozens of job lay-offs at its Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC), citing financial challenges and shifting federal funding priorities. After a thorough review, UCF said the…
WATCH: Power grid regulator says PNW in 'crosshairs' for potential winter blackouts
(The Center Square) – The Pacific Northwest could be facing a challenging winter ahead when it comes to the demand for power and potential blackouts. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which develops and enforces mandatory…
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