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California County’s PACE Program Could Get Feisty with Feds

Does a Riverside County, CA, residential energy financing program put thousands of homeowners on a collision course with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)? In a proposed rule-making, the FHFA has suggested that Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) policies represent a threat to the safety and soundness of mortgages held by government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie […]

Coconut-based contraption makes your bike sound just like a horse

Warning: Contains Monty Python jokes.

Can’t we just skip ahead to the end of this U.N. climate conference already?

We've seen this movie so many times before.

Attempts to kill renewable energy just got dumber

The Heartland Institute, last seen blithely celebrating its ridiculous anti-climate billboards, is excited about its new project.

13-year-old genius from Sierra Leone builds generators out of scrap, makes you feel dumb

With almost no training, 13-year-old Sierra Leonian genius Kelvin Doe makes batteries, transmitters, and generators out of scraps he finds in the trash.

An easy how-to guide for making eco-friendly living graffiti

You mainly just need a blender, moss, buttermilk, and "water retention gardening gel," which I don't know what that is.

While we dither on spending to prevent disaster, Big Oil doubles down on causing it

Damage to New York from Sandy will run $19 billion -- but we don't seem to want to prevent it happening again.

Agricultural training ground The Farm School is bucolic, educational, and stupid expensive

Students learn to grow organic vegetables, tend livestock, and manage forests. Only problem? The cost.

Going undercover in the American factory farm

As the den mother for undercover CAFO investigators, Mary Beth Sweetland sends her employees into the field to witness acts of animal cruelty and environmental degradation.

The shells of ocean animals are already dissolving in acidic seas

This was expected -- just not so soon.