Renewables

A couple in Oregon have transformed their home into a green home that mets all net-zero standards of living.

In India, low income families are receiving solar powered TVs to provide entertainment.

An old nuclear power plant in Charlotte, North Carolina has found new life as a solar energy hub.

Residents in Germany will offer some renters the option to add solar panels to their homes.

New legislation in France will make commercial buildings focus on sustainable practices.

A group of high school girls came up with a concept for a tent for homeless people via DIY Girls.

The Australian Coal Mine Museum has pledged to run completely on renewable energy.

Porterville is California's most polluted city but GreenPower Motor Company's zero emission buses will change all that, improving air quality while creating new green jobs for the San Joaquin Valley.

Supercharger stations in the United States will soon be getting upgraded by Tesla throughout major cities.

Renewable energy has passed nuclear power in the United States power consumption charts with Wind leading the charge.

Social Bicycles has created a new stationless e-bike service called JUMP Bikes and San Francisco will be giving them a trial run over the next 18 months.

Until this point, most scientists put their focus on curbing carbon emissions as the number one solution.

Processed food travels an average of 1,300 miles before hitting your plate, expelling huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

GE's blooming Renewable Energy sector has upgraded their onshore wind turbines to improve production across the world.

Egypt and South Korea are teaming up to build a large agricultural complex that’s full of renewable energy and smart greenhouses.

Packaged water has been met with growing criticism due to the environmental damage it creates, and Danone is doing something about it.

A former Amsterdam prison is going to be converted into a multi-use property.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) believes the cost of renewable energy sources like wind or solar will be cheaper or equal to fossil fuels by 2020.

Saudi Arabia plans to export more oil than consume and transition their population to renewable sources, with investments expectedto reach up to $7 billion.

According to the Fast Company, there is money to be made in the restoration economy aka reforestation has become a big business.

The Norwegian airlines Avinor is going to switch to electric planes for all short-haul flights — flights under 90 minutes — by 2040.

The Seabin Project is a trash can affixed to a dock that has a large fiber catch bag, collecting plastic debris as water is pumped through the system.

An interactive map from the American Wind Energy Association shows the rapid progress being made in increase in wind farms throughout the United States.

An initiative called Refill is working to limit plastic waste by placing "refill stations" in 1,600 businesses across the U.K. as well as locations in other European countries.

An energy company in Denmark is paying electric car owners to park their vehicles at charging stations. Find out why they're incentivizing this.

An Italian startup called Off Grid Box is producing a six-foot square solar array that also filters clean water for general use in areas with scarce resources.

Harley-Davidson is shifting gears and betting on electric motorcycly technology that brings the "quality and experience" of the iconic brand.

Jaden Smith hopes to revolutionize the bottled water industry in similar fashion to Elon Musk’s approach to electric vehicles.

Gumdrop provides an easy way to recycle chewing gum, using the polymer inside of the gum base to create new products.

Skipping Rocks Lab, a startup based in London, has received over $1 million US through crowdfunding to create the Ooho!

Furniture and design company Pentatonic revealed their innovative creation, the Trashpresso, at the London Design Festival this week.

California has been looking moreand more toward the future with renewable energy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected in part due to his promises to connect the many regions outside of India's electrical grid to power, according to Bloomberg.

Hurricane Maria didn’t make impact in the continental United States, but Puerto Rico saw a direct hit from the intense Category 4 hurricane.

Along with releasing information on the new Nissan LEAF, the car manufacturer is pushing out a series of pilot projects to showcase just how useful the electric vehicle battery is.

Researcher James Morris is rethinking what happens to the enormous number of mollusk shells that end up in landfills every year.

Two fully electric models from the manufacturer will be released next year, while 18 more will join the roster by 2023.

A team from the University of Central Florida has developed a nanomaterial that can release hydrogen from seawater much more cheaply and efficiently than existing methods, potentially giving us another way of unlocking this sustainable energy source.

HANS Power and Stage 2 Innovations have launched the Solar Briefcase 60, a portable array of solar panels that compliment a HANS PowerPack.

Microsoft has struck a deal with General Electric to buy all of the energy.