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Last month six community members living on President St, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope created the first local marketplace for… 
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Please consider donating to my crowdfunding campaign described in this YouTube video. The goal is to use the trip to Lakota Solar Enterprises as a catalyst to learn the skills necessary to start the Hack.Solar() open source solar technology network. I attended the largest open source programming conference in the world this past February 22-24…
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Saving the world isn’t going to be cheap. If you sell oil, coal or old-fashioned cars, that threatens disaster. For makers of stuff like solar panels, high-tech home insulation, and efficient lighting, it’s a potential miracle.
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Interest-free solar loans for community organisations 'pay for themselves'. Loans are repaid out of energy savings. Loan repayments fund subsequent projects via
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Google wants to help you harness the power of the sun. A new service called Project Sunroof aims to provide a "treasure map" of solar energy with the help of Google Maps. Sunroof gives homeowners...
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A new report released this week asserts that utility-scale solar is much more economical than small-scale solar. The clear implication is that we should let incumbent utilities build or buy solar from large-scale arrays instead of allowing customers to generate their own power. There are several reasons to seriously question the mistaken assertion that big…
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Are some of those anticipating the pope's message most in for a disappointment?
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Not long ago, dusk was a time of unease for the people of Magadi, a village in Kenya’s Kajiado County. As the sun set, farmers began worrying about their cattle, easy prey for hyenas and leopards. Children lit fires to finish their schoolwork, filling homes with smoke. Now as darkness falls, lights flick on across …
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Affordable energy technologies and new business models are bringing off-grid solutions to growing numbers of communities in the developing world
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Israeli transplant Yeloha has raised more than $3.5 million and launched a solar-sharing service that could pave the way for renters and property owners to share the many benefits of clean, renewable solar energy generation.
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With the arrival of low-cost solar, it's no surprise that the revolution taking place in developing markets these days is rooted in mobile-sun.
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Residential solar is becoming a financial decision, not an environmental one.
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Using carefully angled mirrors, this solar-powered steam generator can get very hot.
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Fighting for a fair go for solar owners and everyone who wants to go solar one day.
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Leaders from 147 countries have assembled in Paris for COP 21, the most important climate summit since the 2009 Copenhagen meeting. But climate justice activists worry the result will be the same: platitudes and handwringing, with no firm commitment from Global North countries to drastically curb carbon emissions.
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A Michigan State University research team has finally created a truly transparent solar panel.
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Do you live in France? If you're getting a new house, you might have to follow this incredible, sustainable law. A new law that was passed that mandates that new buildings in commercial lots need to have either plants or solar panels on the roof. Having a garden on your roof sounds like a paradise, one that's…
katelyn wellsby's curator insight,
September 14, 2015 11:06 AM
A law that makes you have to have plants or solar panels on top of your roof. I'm pretty sure a lot of people think that law would be stupid but if you read having that on top of your roof can help prevent leaks, provides a home to small critters and insects and importantly it connects us back to nature. And let's be honest having plants all over your roof would be beautiful to have. If someone doesn't do research on what having plants or solar panels on your roof, they wouldn't like the idea of having to have one of the other on there roof. 
Bryan "Sandstorm" Cepeda's curator insight,
September 14, 2015 11:07 AM
This is a good law. Though I don't know how solar plants could effect a major city
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"If properly harnessed, there's enough sunlight that falls on the earth in just one hour to meet the world's energy demands for a whole year."
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"For us, the impact of solar technology is unparalleled," said one of the women trained as a solar installer
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Can emerging technology defeat global warming? The United States has invested tens of billions of dollars in clean energy projects as our leaders try to save our crumbling economy and our poisoned planet in one bold, green stroke. Are we finally on the brink of a green-energy "power surge," or is it all a case of too little, too late?
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Community solar campaigns try to get a critical mass of customers to bring installation prices down.
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how to make a non-compressor based "5 gallon bucket" air conditioner. simple DIY. items needed: bucket, styrofoam liner, pvc pipe, small fan, and ice. (small...
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