EVs Always Beat Combustion Emissions Performance
A pervasive story is that electric vehicles (EVs or BEVs) are actually dirtier than combustion vehicles if charged by a fossil fuel-based electricity grid. A new study reaffirms others that show, a…
The Undeniable ROI of Community Parks and Green Spaces - Trust for Public Land
What is the value of a park? - LSE European Politics
Wellbeing data suggests the monetary value of a park to residents of urban areas can be put at around €119 per resident, in any given year.
Why Your Neighbor’s Solar Panels Might Raise Your Power Bill
Vibes tell us solar is a win for the environment and the energy grid. But does rooftop solar negatively affect those without it?
We Mapped Rural Data Center Development – and Opposition. Here’s What We Found. | The Daily Yonder
Washington, D.C.’s metropolitan area has long hummed with data centers. The region, which encompasses much of Northern Virginia, has become known as Data
De-carbonization Is a Coordination Problem — and Private Markets Can't Solve It — Brief Ecology
Melanie Brusseler, US Program Director, Common Wealth
They’ve puzzled scientists for more than a century — and they’re almost everywhere in WA
More than 1,000 species of lichen grow in Washington. All of them offer a window into profound biological cooperation.
Illinois put community solar on a 150-year-old coal mine
For 75 years it produced coal. Now, this Illinois site generates community solar for local homes and businesses.
Clippership
Electric Vehicles Shall Prevail
US policy toward electric vehicles abruptly changed in 2025, rapidly winding down the sales incentives which had previously been in place an...
Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it
Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism. The cafes and other efforts try to offer an alternative to mass-produced, disposable goods that have dominated the economy for the last half-century.
Framework for a Living Future
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A truck-mounted nuclear reactor that runs for decades without refueling is being tested in China
The project is led by Wu Yican at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, who has described the system as a first-of-its-kind mobile nuclear unit. "Our...
Forget Lithium: a British Plant Is Banking Renewable Power as Frozen Air at 196 Below, in Tanks That Hold Their Charge for Weeks and Are Built to Last Half a Century
When people talk about storing renewable energy, they usually mean lithium. A wall of cells, a Tesla Powerwall bolted to the garage, a field of containers
Here's How Regulations Accidentally Killed Small Trucks in America
We used to have small trucks. Now, there's just the Ford Maverick. What happened?
Be Your Own Oil Company With Desktop Fischer-Tropsch Process
Plastics, oil, petrol– the modern world is entirely dependent on hydrocarbons. The good sources are slowly running low and supply is increasingly complicated by geopolitical factors we really…
While the world fights over oil, China just flew a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo plane powered by a megawatt-class hydrogen turboprop, climbing to 984 feet, covering 22.4 miles at 137 mph, and landing 16 minutes later with the engine running smoothly the whole way
China tests a hydrogen powered cargo plane, hinting at a future of cleaner flights without relying on fossil fuels.
RS-485 Sprinkler Control: Scaling Irrigation Across The Farm
Building your own sprinkler system controller isn’t that difficult on the face of it, but what happens when your system starts to grow, adding more distant areas? To tackle this, [Vinnie] leveraged…
Rare-Earth-Free Solar Cells Could Lower Costs and Boost Accessibility
Scientists have developed flexible, lightweight solar cells that do not rely on scarce and expensive elements. Using a perovskite semiconductor and microgroove embossing, this could reduce costs and expand solar adoption in low-income regions.
In Puerto Rico, an Innovative Water Treatment System Fortifies a Community - Inside Climate News
Researchers believe the portable system, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico, can be an essential resource for places that have long lacked reliable access to clean drinking water.
How Giant Tanks Of Fluid Could Help Support The Power Grid
If you’ve been paying any attention to the renewable energy space, you’ll know that generation isn’t really the problem anymore. Solar panels are cheap, and wind turbines are ever…
Overlooked 'in-between' materials could reshape solar fuel and battery design
Researchers have identified previously unknown materials, including a new form of a widely studied clean-energy material, by carefully controlling and tracking how molecular precursors break down during ...
Solar Thermal Energy Storage
georgesworkshop
georgesworkshop blog describing green diy projects designed and built by the author George Plhak
Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine
Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy
Scientists say we have reached an ‘irreversible tipping point’ that will see fossil fuels phased out
Op-Ed: Washington Is Caught in a Property Tax Trap. Here's the Way Out.
Here's the case for lifting Washington state's 1% lid on property tax levy hikes while at the same time implementing a homestead protection for primary residences and a renter's tax credit to shift the burden away from working families.
What is the Real Price of Carbon?
Effective carbon pricing is a critical tool to incentivize decarbonization and guide meaningful climate policy. But how we calculate the price of carbon matters, and there’s no global consensus on the process.
The City of Dragons is on the come up
Big news in Renton last week reminded me that my hometown is good and getting better.
David Sim of "Soft City": Making the Places We Live More Human
People might think of city life as necessarily “hard.” But the creative director at a Copenhagen-based urban design firm begs to differ. There are a few simple principles that can “soften” our city, drawing us closer together and radically improving our quality of life.