Cochin International Airport, the world’s first 100 percent solar airport, is generating so much power from its massive solar array that the airport no longer pays for electricity. Cochin International Airport is the world’s first fully solar powered airport in the world. Located in the state of Kerala, the Cochin is the fourth largest airport in India in terms […]
Facebook’s Menlo Park, California headquarters features an impressive, 9-acre rooftop garden—a welcome reprieve for the social media giant’s 2,800 employees. “Our goal was to create the perfect engineering space for our teams to work together,” Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg wrote last March about the company’s new HQ and rooftop garden. “We wanted our space to […]
Over the last year, no area of sustainability has drawn as much interest from students in Columbia University’s Sustainability Management graduate program than the environmental performance of the fashion industry. One of these students is Kwesi Blair, who has, himself, worked in the retail of fashion for a decade, and who has experienced, firsthand, the […]
Whole Foods is teaming up with NRG Energy and SolarCity to install rooftop solar on 100 of its stores and distribution centers across the country. Whole Foods is going even greener after striking a deal with SolarCity and NRG Energy to install solar panels across 100 stores. Fortune reported that SolarCity, co-founded by Elon Musk, will install roughly […]
Within six years, the cost of owning an electric car will be cheaper than purchasing and running a petrol or diesel model. That’s the conclusion of a report on the fast-expanding electric car market by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The report says that even if petrol or diesel driven cars improve their fuel efficiency over the […]
By Oceans 8 Films Dear President Obama, The Clean Energy Revolution is Now, narrated by 3-time Academy Award nominated actor Mark Ruffalo, calls on President Obama to ban fracking and join the “anti-drilling” majority growing across the U.S. Oceans 8 Films is excited to announce the film’s premiere in Washington, DC on March 18, as […]
By SUN DAY Campaign Two new federal government reports underscore not only the continued rapid growth of renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) in the electric power sector but also the ongoing failure of government forecasts to accurately anticipate and predict that growth. The new renewable energy capacity added in January is […]
In an effort to stamp down on food waste, Denmark has opened a supermarket that exclusively sells food that’s usually meant for the dumpster. Denmark's new grocery store #WeFood sells surplus food destined for landfills: https://t.co/2LTQCDBt2A #ZeroWaste pic.twitter.com/H38E8LR2Td — UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) March 1, 2016 WeFood, in Amager, Copenhagen, sells bread, fruits, vegetables, dairy, meats, […]
Want to get a good workout and get a mundane chore out of the way—all while not using electricity? Now you can, thanks to the Bike Washing Machine, designed by students at Dalian Nationalities University in China. The Bike Washing Machine allows you to wash your clothes while you work out. Photo credit: Bike Washing Machine Colin […]
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