Having clean floors can improve your life. That may seem like a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s true. Having debris in your carpet can be painful for your feet and bad for your health. Cleaner ...

Taking just a few simple steps each year can make a huge difference in preparing your home for a natural disaster. Keeping your yard neat and replacing combustible materials like mulch around your ...

Researchers at the University of California – Los Angeles have created a device that harnesses the static electricity inherent within snow. But while it’s certainly an exciting prospect for ...

Both hydropower and conventional thermal combustion electricity is depleted in a hotter new climate. A new paper published at Nature Climate Change, Power-generation system vulnerability and ...

Embedding haptic signals into a gas pedal just might be the next big step forward in driver-controlled fuel efficiency. With this tool helping the car and driver to work together to use as little fuel ...

An Oregon voters’ ballot initiative would garnish the wages of power company executives who won’t shut down coal power stations in the state. A ballot initiative, from the environmental group Renew ...

It’s not just about cozy ski lodges anymore. Aspen is earning nationwide attention for its green energy achievements. Aspen has long enjoyed a reputation as a lovely place to escape to for a ski ...

Lower income Americans pay more for energy as a percentage of their total income than more affluent residents, but they’re generally in a bad position to implement renewable, long-term cost-saving ...

China issued an update on its solar progress this week and made every other solar-seeking country around the world feel kind of pathetic. The National Energy Board said 5.04 GW was installed in the ...

It’s not a contest. Renewable energy is no zero-sum game (or doesn’t have to be, at least), and according to the experts, all of it and then some will be needed to keep global temperatures from rising ...

For a long time, creating a sustainable residence meant retrofitting your heart out. In addition to the home’s cost, you also had to find a way to finance solar panels, integrate an energy monitoring ...

The growth of wind power, if undertaken with reasonable care, should pose no risk to any particular bird species in Canada, according to a new peer-reviewed study. The study also suggests that highly ...