energy efficiency
Here's How the US Could Pretty Much Eliminate Carbon Dioxide Pollution
A UN study says dramatic cuts are possible using existing clean energy technology and with will little to no economic impact.
We Have Five Years to Stop Building Coal Plants and Gas-Powered Cars
It's simple math: If we keep building fossil-fueled power plants and cars past 2018, serious global warming is locked-in.
The White House Wants to Save the Nation $28 Billion With New Fridges
The energy saved from these proposed rules would be equal to the amount of electricity used by 50 million homes in a year, they claim.
Let's All Prepare For Energy Independence With The Perpetual Energy Wasting Machine
Niklas Roy leads us down a path of efficiency through wastefulness, preparing us for the new energy age.
The World's Cities Are Set To Grow Explosively and Maybe That's Not a Bad Thing
A study published last week in "the journal":http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/11/1211658109 of the National Academy of Sciences forecasts massive global urbanization between now and 2030. Researchers estimate total expansion of the planet's...
The Mile-High Cities of the Future Will Be Miserable
In the year 2025, there will be buildings that stand over a mile high. There were, at one point, concrete plans for a skyscraper in a Middle Eastern nation that was to tower one and a half miles into the heavens. That one was shelved, but major...