sustainable energy
Put Your Computer to Use for Good When You're Not Using It December 23rd, 2008
Grid Computing Project Aims to Discover Next-Generation Solar Materials
You're probably using only a fraction of your computer's computing power when it's on. When it's idle, you're using even less. But now you can put that unused processing power to good use coming and...more
Green Your Phone with Renewable Energy Credits December 12th, 2008
Best Buy Offering Mobile Phone Energy Offsets
Looking for a way to make your cell phone a little bit greener? Best Buy has an idea -- visit one of their stores to buy wind-power energy credits to offset your phone's electricity use. The...more
An Idea to Green Your Grave November 28th, 2008
Solar Powers in Cemetery Help Power Spanish Town
Looking for an idea that can help the people you leave behind? The Spanish town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet has turned its cemetery into something better than a memorial. By installing solar panels on...more
Financial Crisis Inspires Investment in Cost-Saving Solar Technologies October 17th, 2008
Solar power is more than just green -- investors are hoping it will earn them a lot of green. You might call it a perfect storm for solar. The world financial markets are in turmoil, energy...more
Want Solar Power? Let RoofRay Calculate Your Solar Potential August 22nd, 2008
Thinking about putting solar panels on your house, but not sure how effective they'll be? RoofRay has an answer. This great online tool uses Google Maps to calculate the amount of energy that you will likely...more
Google Goes Geothermal. Can You? August 21st, 2008
Clean Energy Could Be Right Under Your Feet
Google recently announced it would invest $10 million into the development of geothermal energy systems. Geothermal, one of the hot new ideas in "clean technology," uses the natural heat under the Earth's surface to provide...more
T. Boone Pickens: Building Wind Power in America July 16th, 2008
Old-School Oilman Moving into Alternative Energy
When T. Boone Pickens founded Mesa Petroleum in the 1950s, he took $2500 and turned it into a three billion dollar oil empire. This guy is about as old-school oil man as you can get....more
Can You Harness Wind Power or Not? April 18th, 2008
Find Out if Wind Power Will Work on Your Land
In my series of posts last week related to choosing the perfect land for your green home, I mentioned wind power. Wind power is cool but not all plots of land will allow for decent...more
Clean, Renewable Energy: The Answer to Global Warming April 15th, 2008
Apollo's Fire: Look to the Sun, Today and Tomorrow
I must admit there are days when my six-mile bike ride to work seems like a straight uphill climb. In those moments of laziness, I wish the Idaho sun could just transport me there aside...more
Wicked Fun with the Sun April 4th, 2008
Book shows how to tap into the evil genius in your sol
OK, let's be honest -- most of us are still looking for our genius side, forget good and evil. But in Gavin D.J. Harper's book Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius, Harper appeals to...more
