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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The Solar Roofpod is a piece of urban infrastructure which captures the most underutilized energy, the sun, and utilizes it through innovative engineering systems to feed power to a single pod, whole buildings, and the city's power grid.
Tags: sustainability, solar, Green, engineering, innovation, new york, architecture, Sun, pv, HVAC
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The University of Tennessee’s Living Light house incorporates the knowledge of Tennessee’s past and present to create an environmentally responsive, comfortable home to meet the needs of today.
Tags: solar, Green building, renewable energy, sustainable, architecture, climate, heating, homes, Solar Decathlon, Tennessee
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The Roofpod is more than just a house, more than an energy source or a garden; it is a piece of urban infrastructure, part of an integrated system to simultaneously address the challenges of electrical energy production, heating and cooling, storm
Tags: sustainability, solar, Green, engineering, architecture, power, design, students, City College of New York
Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University
Monday, January 27, 2020
Texas is known nationwide as being home to cotton, cattle, and oil booms. But renewable energy industries are quickly gaining popularity in the state.
Tags: storyfest2020, wind, turbines, energy, Green, rural, Urban, texas, industry, Ecology and Economics
SCIArc & Caltech
Thursday, September 15, 2011
CHIP'S Architectural concept is driven by the two sides of the net zero equation: energy production and energy consumption. Watch to find out how Team California makes the two sides meet!
Tags: NREL, Green, sustainable, college, students, #sd2011, Solar Decathlon. Department of Energy, CHIP, SCIArc, Caltech
energyNOW
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
In this animated Energy 101 video, energyNOW! correspondent Lee Patrick Sullivan looks at how one of New York City's most famous structures, the Empire State Building, is becoming one of its greenest.
Tags: sustainability, Green building, Efficiency, new york, energy credits, empire state building, energyNOW!, Empire state, lee patrick, sullivan
energyNOW
Friday, August 05, 2011
The same chemicals we use in shampoo and conditioner could capture CO2 from power plant smokestacks and help limit climate change.
Tags: coal, cap and trade, Carbon, sequestration, carbon capture, emissions, carbon dioxide, University of Texas, green chemistry, energyNOW!
Sunflower bed in bloom in the fall of 2019 at Homefields Incorporated, a 23-acre community-led farm. (Max Sano/Franklin & Marshall College)
Planet Forward Senior Correspondent | New York University
Friday, April 02, 2021
The U.S. food supply chain needs a complete makeover in light of the COVID-19 crisis. A new plan should incorporate several areas of focus, including expanding funding into current organic and regenerative agriculture.
Tags: environmental justice, regenerative agriculture, Green, minority serving institutions, storyfest2021, essay
White Caps, Green Collars LLC
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
It’s simple: our urban landscapes abound with flat, black roofs that absorb heat all summer long, driving up energy use, and contributing to the urban heat island effect as well as global warming.
Tags: climate change, energy, energy policy, Green building, Efficiency, energy savings, white roofs, cool roofs, white roof coatings, urban heat island
Middlebury College; U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
This summer the Middlebury Solar Decathlon team is building a 100% solar-powered home to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011. The biennial green-building competition draws 20 collegiate teams from all over the country and...