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Green Roofs are becoming blase, perhaps, as design moves into living walls.  A number of the Solar Decathlon teams have incorporated some form of living wall, think garden on the walls of the house.  These walls help cool the house in the summer (reducing solar gain), water management (reduced storm water runoff as they take water […]

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Well, the Decathlon is underway, with 20 innovative teams fighting for victory as the best solar home to grace the Mall in Washington, DC.  Today, the first event was judged.  The Germans (Darmstadt) are leading the pack, with 209.206 points.  Far, far behind them, in second place, the University of Maryland with 208.872 points.  (e.g., […]

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While it looks ever so simple, the Watercone® is a result not just of good design but serious development efforts with high-quality products.  :”…every day 5000 children die as a result of diarrhea coused by drinking unsafe water…”  UNICEF

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Want to take a virtual tour in the world of distributed power?    Thanks to Equity Green, I learned the news that San Francisco Launches Solar Energy Mapping Website. A solar mapping web tool was recently launched for the city of San Francisco.  Its actually pretty cool and addicting.  I liked scrolling over all the houses […]

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The vast majority of PV installed on rooftops is just that … installed on rooftops.  Developing in recent years have been Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics (BIPV) The objective being, the transition of solar PV, from being just a merely bolted on afterthought, into being an integral part of the building, dare we say part of every […]

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CSP — concentrated solar power — is producing electricity for supply to the grid in many places around the world.  There have been / are many efforts seeking to bring CSP into the retail marketplace.   (Such as SunCube.) Soliant Energy looks near to achieving this — not with using CSP to boil water to […]

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Well, while Walmart announced a major solar purchase, this is overshadowed by the even-larger plans that Kohl’s has for its stores.   Kohl’s has announced plans to provide solar power for 75% of its California stores.  The initial purchase will be for 24 of Kohl’s 80 stores. This one step will be 15% of California’s current solar […]

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Wal-Mart announced today a huge solar system purchase, a “pilot project … toward its goal of being supplied by 100 percent renewable energy”. For many, Wal-Mart has been an odd poster child for Green business management. While it is hard to say that its business model is ‘sustainbilility focused’ (importing things from far away, disposible (non-durable) […]

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Thanks to gmoke for the tips to the Boston Globe’s ‘green’ articles on Earth Day.  Green Light is subtitled “How to make Massachusetts the Silicon Valley of eco-energy”. This article begins: “Since the beginning of his gubernatorial campaign, Deval Patrick has made clean energy a pet issue …” “Pet issue”?  Well, perhaps regular readers might […]

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Interested in solar electricity?  Have I ever got the deal for you … That, in part, is CitizenRE‘s claim that has been viral through the web — advertisements at website/blog after website/blog. The promise: Citizenr? will put solar electricity on your rooftop and sell the electricity to you at a fixed price (based on your […]

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