Green Blog

Kudos to Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) for bird-dogging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the need to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants. Yesterday, Rep.

Last week the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Energy Star program.

Atlantic sturgeon co-existed with dinosaurs - and they look like it. They can grow up to 14 feet long, weigh over 800 pounds, and have armor-like plates protruding from much of their body. They can also live up to 60 years of age. But modern times have not been kind to this unique fish.

Meeting its reputation as one of the world’s leading clean energy states, California is initiating incentives for solar power in the form of a new subsidy. Approved on Monday, the new subsidy is set to benefit users and distributors of clean, solar energy.

What is a bigger gamble than the largest bet in Vegas? The proposed Pebble Mine up in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The winnings? Low-grade gold and copper deposits or the home of one of the most productive salmon fisheries left in the world. The stakes?

They flew in from all over the world: Switzerland, Finland, Greece, Italy, Austria, Slovakia, and Canada, as well as many parts of the U.S.

Welcome to the Green Age.

We live in a time in which the threats of yesteryear are staring us right in the face. Gone are the warnings and predictions; summations and theories. The global problems terrorizing us now--climate change, deforestation, global warming, ocean pollution--are all too real and all too proactive to ignore.

Green is everywhere! Lately it seems like companies are jumping on the “green movement” so fast that it’s hard to tell what color they really are. Efficient light bulbs, eco-garbage bags, no VOC paints, the list is really endless.

It seems that many organizations are striving towards some form of zero-energy buildings.

Challenge - We set out to see if we could use the sun to cost-effectively do four key things: