Geothermal energy

How two mayors of small towns in right-wing America are showing the way to energy and climate progress: through local action.

29 | May 1, 2013 3:00am | By Chris Nelder

As SmartPlanet has long noted, there are better, safer ways to harness atoms than how the nuclear industry has gone about it for decades. Must be true, because now the paper of record says so.

8 | March 18, 2013 6:14am | By Mark Halper

The first net-zero retail store is coming to the United States.

5 | March 7, 2013 10:53am | By Tyler Falk

Where has all of Earth's carbon gone? A study says 90 percent is missing, and probably resides in the planet's deepest regions. We might be able to tap it. Uh-oh?

11 | March 4, 2013 9:00am | By Mark Halper

The Apple veteran has Jobsian ambitions and no apparent competitors in the energy space.

March 1, 2013 3:15am | By Rachel James

A British company says it has slashed the cost of fuel cells for cars by replacing expensive metal with a catalyst from detergents.

4 | February 20, 2013 5:25am | By Mark Halper

A simple chart from a Nobel prize winning physicist summarizes why nuclear power belongs in a low carbon economy.

29 | February 19, 2013 6:31am | By Mark Halper

Think "byproduct" and "methanol." A Reykjavik group strikes a deal with a Dutch oil company.

6 | February 13, 2013 5:16am | By Mark Halper

Saudi Arabia has completed its biggest ground-mounted photovoltaic solar plant, an installation that presented some unconventional challenges.

February 5, 2013 3:42pm | By Kirsten Korosec

A New Zealand innovation company says that "infrasound" can avert avalanches, scare birds from airplanes, and detect volcanoes and earthquakes.

7 | February 4, 2013 5:16am | By Mark Halper

People on the Mediterranean island of Ikaria live a decade longer than other westerners. Ninety-year-olds are sexually active there. Opa! Is it the water or the wine for these ancient Greeks?

13 | January 7, 2013 4:44am | By Mark Halper

Just a year ago, MidAmerican Energy, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, created a new business to handle its renewable energy interests. It kicked off the new year with a major purchase.

January 3, 2013 9:44am | By Kirsten Korosec

The former chief of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency has been hired by Google to drive energy initiatives at its philanthropic arm Google.org.

3 | December 17, 2012 1:37pm | By Kirsten Korosec

The 100% renewably powered grid is coming sooner than you think. The only question is whether grid operators will be ready for it in time.

98 | December 12, 2012 3:00am | By Chris Nelder

Wind turbines have a big recycling problem -- which is why plant-based turbines are the new focus.

6 | November 14, 2012 9:12pm | By Laura Shin

Carbon policy has failed to meaningfully cut emissions. It's time to try a new approach that uses carrots, not sticks. A national feed-in tariff could do the trick.

47 | November 14, 2012 3:00am | By Chris Nelder

Ready-to-build ideas for Staten Island, New York's hurricane-battered borough.

10 | November 7, 2012 3:52am | By Chris Sullivan

Dutch towns want to make sure their bike lanes are always clear by heating them with geothermal energy.

2 | October 24, 2012 2:21pm | By Tyler Falk

Wind and solar had a heck of a September, adding more new power generation to the grid than all fossil fuels combined.

1 | October 24, 2012 10:22am | By Kirsten Korosec

EVs can spew more CO2 than conventional cars. And then there's the toxic process of manufacturing them. Green comes in many shades!

26 | October 15, 2012 3:01pm | By Mark Halper