As it turns out, the United States and China are going to walk hand in hand into the renewable energy future. Yesterday, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the two countries have formed the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center and will ... [more]

Editor's Note: A couple weeks ago we posted a piece by Alex Aylett reporting on Portugal's impressive percentage of renewable electricity supply. Below, we revisit Portugal's renewable energy success and explore how their planning policies helped the... [more]

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If you love cruising along the city streets on your two-wheeler or charging along the sidewalks on foot, what better way to take advantage of the outdoors than with this super practical solar bag? Designed by Swiss company Sakku, the sakku.traveler i... [more]

Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging:2009Solar Panels To Boost Property PricesJoe Romm argues that as peak oil kicks in and the reality of human-caused climate change becomes painfully clear, energy efficiency, geothermal ... [more]

Electric Vehicles should be a more common sight on your local streets in the next few years as consulting firm predicts the lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery market will grow 125 percent from 2010 to 2016 according to consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.The ... [more]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up it's Carnival time! Welcome to the greatest show in the green business blogosphere the Green Business Blog Carnival!Hopefully, you made the trip to Green Building Elements last week for editio... [more]

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Yesterday's fire on Mariner Energy's Vermilion 380 production platform in the Gulf of Mexico thankfully resulted in neither loss of life nor another big oil spill. However, the timing of this event seems likely to complicate the debate over the dril... [more]

While the reflective and shiny solar panels that researchers have been making thus far look pretty, they're no match for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) recently discovered black silicon solar cell. The scientists at NREL discovere... [more]