April 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Buildings account for 67% of all carbon emissions in New York City. The city council has just passed a resolution mandating a reduction in emissions from large buildings of 40% by 2030.
April 5th, 2019 | by Nexus Media
Extreme weather is incurring expensive repair costs, forcing the Air Force to curtail operations
April 4th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Smart Cities are more than just sensors ushering you to an available parking space, standby street lights, or drones monitoring air quality. Citizens are the most important component in the smart cities of the future. We need their participation in order to collect data, track movement, share knowledge, and most importantly, resources. All of this is possible in the next few decades, but an important first step is to figure out how to incentivize citizens to get on board
April 1st, 2019 | by NRDC
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has made clean energy research and development (R&D) investments in every U.S. state over the past two years, sending more than $1.8 billion to the national laboratories and to hundreds of private-sector and academic researchers last year alone. Unfortunately, the Trump administration recently unveiled a proposal to slash the Energy Department’s budget next year. If enacted, this would have devastating impacts on American innovation
March 30th, 2019 | by World Resources Institute
Green infrastructure like healthy forests, wetlands and coral reefs can cheaply and effectively enhance the performance of traditional built, or “gray infrastructure.”
March 28th, 2019 | by World Resources Institute
When a city decides to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, headlines follow. But the work has only just begun. Cities have many options for generating and purchasing renewable electricity, each of which comes with distinct benefits and challenges
March 20th, 2019 | by The Beam
Here are some of the latest sustainable architectural projects coming out of Texas, California, and Singapore.
March 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
S2A Modular in California is constructing a factory to manufacture net zero modular homes that feature Tesla Powerwall and SolarRoof technology. They will cost about 20% less than a conventional home.
March 18th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
Smart cities aren’t IoT sensors for everything on every corner all of the time. They aren’t just dumb CCTV cameras everywhere providing post facto blame allocation for crimes and accidents. Sensors are just the start
March 8th, 2019 | by Carolyn Fortuna
Public health and safety requires greater security measures as more and more functions of a smart city are automated and connected. Smart cities offer great promise but will require significant public scrutiny so that individual privacy concerns are balanced with collective economic and social power
February 27th, 2019 | by Robyn Purchia
While companies are working to lower their data centers' environmental impacts, it's often done in a piecemeal manner. Companies' data centers are rarely completely green -- running on renewable energy, incorporating efficiency measures and reusing the waste heat.
February 25th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
The Sidewalk Labs Smart City proposal for Toronto envisions wooden buildings made from cross laminated timber, modular construction, full digital connectivity, and robots in tunnels underneath bringing in consumer goods and managing the flow of waste products. It its vision too bold or not bold enough?
February 16th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
This is what the Green New Deal looks like in real life. What an inspiration to experience first hand the harmony of a cooperative, decentralized, warm group of socially and environmentally attuned people — nonprofits working with other nonprofits, transitioning the skyscapes and the landscape naturally with an energized, renewable pulse
February 14th, 2019 | by Charles W. Thurston
Half a dozen California cities are hosting enough net-zero homes to place the state in first place nationally among other states like Arizona where the net-zero trend is catching on rapidly, both among legislators and among leading homebuilders. This trend is expected to accelerate markedly over the coming decade, as the cost of adding net-zero features, including solar, drops by 50%
February 12th, 2019 | by Tina Casey
If fossil fuel stakeholders want to hold on to the building energy market, they better act fast before the electrification movement boils over
February 4th, 2019 | by Matt Pressman
With so much buzz surrounding Tesla's new Gigafactory in Shanghai, some of those newer Model 3 owners might be secretly wondering — a Giga-what? So let's take a second to explain what this moniker really means. Mike Brown at Inverse dives (head first) into this topic, reminding readers: "One of the most impressive machines from Tesla isn’t a car, but a factory."
January 29th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
New drone footage of Tesla's Lathrop facility shows that the facility is all buttoned up on the outside. The Lathrop facility is shaping up to be a massive parts depot for the automotive manufacturer, based on job listings for the location. This seems logical as Tesla works to beef up its parts supply chain coming in and out of its Fremont, California, automotive factory
January 21st, 2019 | by Tina Casey
How AT&T is leveraging connectivity and energy efficiency to deliver on its promise of helping its clients cut carbon emissions
January 20th, 2019 | by Tina Casey
Until Elon Musk starts pitching insulator machines, energy efficiency won't be sexy -- but it will be the key to the low carbon economy of the future
January 12th, 2019 | by Nicolas Zart
Dassault Systèmes and CITE Research sent us the findings of a survey for understanding how consumers expect technology to impact their lives by the year 2030. The survey focused on home, travel, health, and retail. This comes on the heels of another NPR survey that says Americans are feeling more optimistic about their personal future, just not about politics. The study shows consumers expect Hyperloops, fully connected smart home systems, mobile payments, and personalized preventive health plans, among other things
January 3rd, 2019 | by Carolyn Fortuna
This 2nd New Year's Resolution article identifies ways to move toward renewable energy in a condo complex
December 29th, 2018 | by World Resources Institute
The WRI Ross Prize for Cities aims to spotlight exemplary real-world examples of urban transformation to help inspire better cities for all. Nearly 200 projects around the globe submitted applications for the inaugural $250,000 prize
December 28th, 2018 | by Charles W. Thurston
The snail-slow solar shingle race is moving once again, as Real Goods Solar accepts the first of its $127 million worth of Powerhouse preorders on December 27. The company also announced plans to ramp up production every quarter during 2019 toward a 5 megawatt annual capacity guarantee from its manufacturing partners. The announcement coincides with Tesla plans to ramp up its solar shingle production next year as well. May the best shingle prevail
December 24th, 2018 | by NRDC
Many of us learned in high school about Newton’s third law of physics: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. 2018 was a lesson in physics: the Trump administration’s furious assault on pollution protections has, in turn, catalyzed a powerful and growing movement that is pushing back against these misguided rollback attempts
