Energy

'No Credits, Just Prerequisites'

The Living Building Challenge is a new environmental rating system that focuses on required environmental design elements, diverging dramatically from the credit-based approach of the built environment's dominant rating system, LEED.
6 November 2009 - 11:00am
Metropolis Magazine

Solar-lit Footbridge Opens in Brisbane

Last month saw the debut of one of the world's longest footbridges, which also happens to be 100% solar-powered. 36,500 people are projected to walk across the bridge each week.
6 November 2009 - 8:00am
Inhabitat

Funding the Fantastic

The Feds have given the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) $151 million to look at some highly unusual ways of creating energy. Are they so crazy they just might work -- or just plain crazy?
3 November 2009 - 11:00am
The Christian Science Monitor

Wind Power Gets Airborne

The motherlode of wind energy up, up in the air, say scientists. A handful of new technologies are being developed to harvest it at the source, roughly six miles up.
3 November 2009 - 5:00am
Miller-McCune

Ford in the Black, Thanks to Cash for Clunkers

Ford Motor Co. is reporting almost $1b in profits in the third quarter. CEO Alan Mulally credits the Cash for Clunkers program and cost cutting for their success.
2 November 2009 - 1:00pm
The Los Angeles Times

Chicago's Answer to NYC's High Line Will Generate Power & Food

A proposed plan from Gensler and 4240 Architecture would turn an abandoned rail line in Chicago into an energy-generating, food-growing powerhouse. Oh, and a park too.
2 November 2009 - 6:00am
Fast Company

Transportation Planning In Federal Climate Legislation

In this short radio broadcast, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer welcomes the support of influential land use planner Mike McKeever of Sacramento, who testifies in support of the bill that incorporates smart growth strategies first employed by his MPO.
30 October 2009 - 11:00am
Capital Public Radio

$3.4 Billion for the Smart Grid

Earlier this week, the Obama Administration announced a significant investment in smart grid infrastructure like improved transmission lines and smart meters in homes.
29 October 2009 - 10:00am
The White House blog

Coal & Oil - Biggest Health Culprits, Says National Academies

The National Academy of Science has released a report showing that health effects from burning fossil fuels cost the economy about $120 billion a year. Global warming was not included due to uncertainty, so it's focused mostly on air pollution.
27 October 2009 - 8:00am
The New York Times - Environment

Emissions Impact of Biofuels Undercounted

A new report claims that the way the global warming impact of biofuels is measured leaves out the land use component of clearing land and growing crops.
27 October 2009 - 5:00am
The Washington Post

The Prius Power Drain

PG&E CEO Peter Darbee says that it wouldn't take very many all-electric cars to create a serious drain on local power generators.
25 October 2009 - 11:00am
CNET

Denmark's Energy Efficient Poster Child

The Danish island of Samso is the poster child of clean energy. Its residents generate more energy than they consume. Now the Danish government wants to export that model back to the mainland.
25 October 2009 - 9:00am
Der Spiegel

The World's 'Greenest' City by 2020

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has announced a ten-point plan to turn his city in the greenest in the world by 2020.
23 October 2009 - 10:00am
The Vancouver Sun

Traveling? Take a Bike!

Bicycle commuting increased 43% in the U.S. from 2000 to 2008. And as commuters get used to having their trusty bike to get around, more business travelers are taking their ride with them.
22 October 2009 - 9:00am
New York Times

Transit and Ultracapacitors

Ultracapacitor batteries are a poor fit for domestic cars, but are a unique fit for transit. Michael Graham Richard looks at how this technology is working on electric buses in China.
21 October 2009 - 1:00pm
Treehugger

New Topographics

A photography show in 1975 is credited with changing the way artists looked at landscape, shifting towards looking at the built environment with a less romantic viewpoint. The original show is back on tour and opens at the LA County Museum of Art.
20 October 2009 - 10:00am
artinfo.com

Environmental Concerns Slow Solar in California

The White House is pushing for more solar power projects nationwide, but environmental concerns are stalling the progress of plans to build solar projects in the California desert.
20 October 2009 - 8:00am
The Los Angeles Times

An Ecotopia in Colombia

A small village founded in Colombia in the 1960s as an experiment in sustainable agriculture is still thriving. Experts like Amory Lovins are paying Gaviotas a visit to learn their secrets.
19 October 2009 - 2:00pm
The New York Times

Department of Energy Funds Trikes

Three-wheeled, alternative energy vehicles like the Aptera may soon qualify for funding from the Dept. of Energy.
19 October 2009 - 7:00am
autobloggreen.com

From Foreclosure to Green TOD in Phoenix

Foreclosed homes in Phoenix are a new goldmine for one developer, who is buying up land near the city's mass transit lines and marketing properties as transit oriented development.
17 October 2009 - 9:00am
NPR
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