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the-gadgeteer.com - Vincent Nguyen - This Solar-Powered Tiny House Is Less Than $18K
This Solar-Powered Tiny House Is Less Than $18K
The Gadgeteer

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…

foreignpolicy.com - Ravi Agrawal - How Solar Energy Could Transform Geopolitics
How Solar Energy Could Transform Geopolitics
Foreign Policy

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…

geeky-gadgets.com - Julian Horsey - Solar Desalination Electricity Plant Promises Power & Water, Can It Deliver?
Solar Desalination Electricity Plant Promises Power & Water, Can It Deliver?
Geeky Gadgets

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…

scmp.com - Victoria Bela - Why China's mega coal-fired power plants thrive amid green energy boom
Why China's mega coal-fired power plants thrive amid green energy boom
South China Morning Post

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…

forbes.com - Joshua Pearce - Modern Jobs : How To Make Over $100,000 A Year As A Shepherd
Modern Jobs : How To Make Over $100,000 A Year As A Shepherd
Forbes

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…

scientificamerican.com - Meghan Bartels - 5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10
5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10
Scientific American

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…

variety.com - Udita Jhunjhunwala - Sustainability Sparks Calls for Industry Reform at International Film Festival of India: 'The Beginning of a New Era'
Sustainability Sparks Calls for Industry Reform at International Film Festival of India: 'The Beginning of a New Era'
Variety

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…

bbc.co.uk - Linsey Smith - Pacific Ocean rowers turned their small boat into a floating farm - BBC News
Pacific Ocean rowers turned their small boat into a floating farm - BBC News
BBC

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…

sacurrent.com - Arcelia Martin, Inside Climate News - Trump's policies risk Texas' new solar and battery projects
Trump's policies risk Texas' new solar and battery projects
San Antonio Current

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…

marketbeat.com - Promising Canadian Stocks To Keep An Eye On - November 21st
Promising Canadian Stocks To Keep An Eye On - November 21st
MarketBeat

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…

yomiuri.co.jp - 小暮 - Nuclear Reactor Restart at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Plant Expected to Power Economic Growth
Nuclear Reactor Restart at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Plant Expected to Power Economic Growth
読売新聞オンライン

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…

techcrunch.com - Tim De Chant - Why now is the best time to invest in climate tech
Why now is the best time to invest in climate tech
TechCrunch

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.

slate.com - Susan Rigetti - Google Wants to Power Their Chatbots By Filling Our Skies With Garbage
Google Wants to Power Their Chatbots By Filling Our Skies With Garbage
Slate

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…

clickorlando.com - Haley Coomes - UCF cuts 57 jobs at renewable energy research center amid federal funding decline
UCF cuts 57 jobs at renewable energy research center amid federal funding decline
WKMG

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…

thecentersquare.com - Carleen Johnson | The Center Square - WATCH: Power grid regulator says PNW in 'crosshairs' for potential winter blackouts
WATCH: Power grid regulator says PNW in 'crosshairs' for potential winter blackouts
The Center Square

(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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