If you drive an electric vehicle in Illinois, you’re going to get a little shock when it comes time for your annual vehicle registration. Last weekend, the Illinois National Assembly approved raising ...

Electrified vehicles are more and more on the minds of automakers, particularly in Germany, as we observed from the recent Frankfurt Auto Show a slew of announcements on concept and production models.

More companies and organizations are finally putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to sustainability. Most recently, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which provides non-profit ...

Drones have been a hot topic in the media lately. Whether they’re for surveillance or combat, the idea of drones patrolling our airspace is one that’s not taken lightly by the public. As we struggle ...

On the EarthTechling Utterly Cool Projects Scale™, the EnviroMission Solar Tower project might be unrivaled. More than 2,600 feet tall, with a mile-in-diameter greenhouse canopy at its base creating ...

The Passive House concept is said to have come out of a 1988 conversation between a German and a Swede. Research projects were funded, the first Passivhaus (PH) residences were built in 1990, and the ...

If these UCLA researchers are right – and we might find out pretty soon – energy storage could be in for a big change. Richard Kaner and his graduate student Maher El-Kady have been trumpeting ...

You may have never heard of enzyme cleaners, but trust us, you want to know about these incredible eco-friendly cleaners.These cleaners contain natural enzymes that break down and eat bacteria and ...

Soaking up the heat of the sun was never easier than with this solar water heater from Sunbank. These water heaters are closed-loop and ultra-insulated, making them the perfect choice for those who ...

There are just 5,800 publicly available EV charging stations in the United States and people say that’s a roadblock to selling more electric vehicles. So imagine the challenge for fuel-cell vehicles: ...

The Obama administration says that SunShot, the R&D program to bring down the cost of solar-generated electricity to where it’s competitive with conventionally sourced electricity, is 60 percent of ...

Editor’s Note: We’ve just posted an interview we did in early April 2012 with SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith about his company’s technology. You can read that here. The gray cylinder rising 540 feet ...