Climate Technology
All Stories
-
Reading the tea leaves for the future of the global food trade
Does your tea habit promote deforestation, soil erosion, gushers of pesticides, and poverty wages? Probably -- even if it's Fair Trade, I'm sorry to say. But it doesn't have to.
-
California's solar power increasingly Chinese made
The Chinese are moving quickly to fill the photovoltaic market created by the California Solar Initiative.
-
In his Wall Street Journal op-ed, Obama moves to the right on regulation
In today's Wall Street Journal, President Obama embraces a conservative frame for the coming discussion about the role of regulation.
-
Millennials not looking for McMansions (unless they have to move back in with the parents)
Will Generation Y choose to live in smaller spaces and more walkable communities than their parents did?
-
Did we learn anything from the BP oil spill?
The National Oil Spill Commission has given marching orders on how to prevent another disaster. But will Congress listen?
-
Report: Big solar thermal power's days are numbered
Competition from ever-cheaper photovoltaic panels could cool demand for solar thermal.
-
Global investment in green energy hit record in 2010
Venture capitalists, corporations, and governments worldwide pouring $243 billion into wind farms, solar power, electric cars, and other technologies.
-
California utility signs 831-megawatt photovoltaic farms deal
Seven new solar farms would have the capacity at peak output to power more than 540,000 homes.
-
Deal signed in big China solar project
The world's largest photovoltaic project, a massive 2,000-megawatt solar power plant complex, is finally moving forward in China.
-
Solar thermal industry set to boom
A new report says that employment in the solar thermal collector industry jumped 22 percent in 2009 from the previous year.