New Yorkers Get Government-Sponsored Hackathon to be more Sustainable By Tayyab Shaikh Last weekend, the Mayor’s Office and NYC Digital hosted the first Cleanweb Sustainability Hackathon at NYU-Poly in Downtown Brooklyn. Over 100 programmers, developers, and business strategists created teams and competed against one another to build applications or web … [continued]
Here’s a fun guest post. Good luck to you if you enter! And happy 4th of July! “IF WE harvest icebergs, just one could provide half a million people with fresh water for a year.” There are parts of the world where economic growth is limited due to limited … [continued]
This post may be a bit basic for our long-time readers and solar experts, but I think it makes a good intro post for anyone thinking about going solar, and someone passed it on to me just as I was thinking about putting together a little “Going Solar” series, … [continued]
Community solar is a critical type of solar that needs a lot more love. Here’s a more on Community Solar from NREL: Many individuals want to get into the driver’s seat by securing solar photovoltaic (PV) power—but how do you get into the pole position? By using Community Solar. The … [continued]
The Vauxhall Ampera is a special car. Or so we’re supposed to believe! It’s one step closer to the clean motoring future that awaits us all. I have not exactly been blown away by the electric vehicle offerings we’ve seen in the past, so I feel skepticism is an … [continued]
From recent news reporting a global investment in renewable energy of more than $257 billion, to headlines highlighting green changes implemented by companies across the globe, this past year was a notable era of progress in enhancing the environment’s sustainability. However, as most of us know, there is still much that can be done to further improve environmental health. Focusing … [continued]
A promising way of approaching renewable energy is with Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) construction that, in 2011, received a big move forward as Sunlogics PLC, which is a US solar panel manufacturer, purchased Phoenix Solar Holdings Corp and their operating subsidiaries. One of those subsidiaries was EPV Solar Germany GmbH, … [continued]
by WWF Humanity is using resources and emitting waste (particularly carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning) at a rate 52 percent faster than the Earth can sustain according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2012. The report was launched from the International Space Station on the 15th of May by André Kuipers, … [continued]
This article was originally published on the NREL website by Bill Scanlon. During 30 years on a rooftop, a solar panel gets bombarded by UV rays, soaked by rain, buffeted by wind, pounded by hail. How well it stands up to that beating is a crucial factor in setting … [continued]
The following guest post comes to us from Midwest Energy News. Enjoy! by Dan Haugen Independence, Missouri, is the kind of place where when someone buys an electric car it’s unusual enough that the local newspaper writes a story about it. Stan Adkins of Cable-Dahmer Chevrolet sold a second Chevy Volt … [continued]
