If these UCLA researchers are right – and we might find out pretty soon – energy storage could be in for a big change. Richard Kaner and his graduate student Maher El-Kady have been trumpeting ...

On the EarthTechling Utterly Cool Projects Scale™, the EnviroMission Solar Tower project might be unrivaled. More than 2,600 feet tall, with a mile-in-diameter greenhouse canopy at its base creating ...

The ticking clock – and fallout from the Solyndra bankruptcy – appears to have claimed another loan-guarantee victim. SolarCity said the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) told it that a $275 million ...

More companies and organizations are finally putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to sustainability. Most recently, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which provides non-profit ...

Drones have been a hot topic in the media lately. Whether they’re for surveillance or combat, the idea of drones patrolling our airspace is one that’s not taken lightly by the public. As we struggle ...

Everyone has seen them, those tiny dark spots that spring up around the bathtub, on window sills, and on shower curtains. Mold. Mold is a type of fungus that loves to grow in dark damp places and can ...

We all know about ways to build greener more energy-efficient buildings, but what about the other side of this coin? Is there such a thing as “green demolition”? Many of today’s small buildings are ...

A nice hot shower can be an invigorating way to start your morning or the perfect end to a long day. Wouldn’t it be nice to enjoy those hot showers without having to worry about wasting energy or ...

To help you find the best solar spot lights, we’ve done the grunt work for you, looking at the dozens of lights available and picking our top five favorites. When narrowing down our picks, we focused ...

There are just 5,800 publicly available EV charging stations in the United States and people say that’s a roadblock to selling more electric vehicles. So imagine the challenge for fuel-cell vehicles: ...

The Obama administration says that SunShot, the R&D program to bring down the cost of solar-generated electricity to where it’s competitive with conventionally sourced electricity, is 60 percent of ...

It was a fateful day, forever etched into the memories of those who live on the American Gulf Coast, and beyond: August 29, 2005. This was the day Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the City of ...