Why Masdar Matters
Feb 03, 2012
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Walking among Masdar City’s buildings reminds you how smart design has a massive effect on the sustainability of our built environment.
Bosnia’s Future Strength: Water
Dec 01, 2010
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Bosnia has its challenges, but one resource from which it strongly benefits is water. Water is everywhere in Bosnia, in all forms.
You Can Sweat in Paris – Body Heat to Warm Apartments
Sep 13, 2010
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Now a public housing project in the center of Paris will benefit from all those commuters darting across Paris–body heat from subway commuters will heat 17 flats starting next year.
St. Lucia, Future Geothermal Energy Exporter for the Caribbean
Aug 10, 2010
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St. Lucia’s government signed an agreement with US-based Qualibou Energy for the development of a geothermal plant. The plant will generate 12 megawatts of electricity by 2012, and another 108 MW of capacity will be in operation by 2015.
A Devil of a Time With EU Mandates
Nov 13, 2009
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What do you do when you’re new to the EU and face that 20% renewables target by 2020? Ask Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city and the country’s largest logistics and economic hub. Home to 350,000 people–10% of whom are students–Kaunas faces difficult choices in the next several years as Lithuania struggles to meet EU regulations. [...]
Djibouti, a geothermal model?
Aug 31, 2009
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Despite its proximity to the oil-rich Arabian peninsula, Djibouti has no fossil fuel sources of its own. Lack of resources in general has led to high unemployment, almost no industry, and a huge national debt.
A Greener Battery
Aug 08, 2009
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Assuming that battery technology is a panacea for our current energy woes is ignoring one side affect: the toxicity, energy and expense racked up from extracting the materials that allow the battery to work. Newer generations of batteries generally use lithium ion technology, and as companies manufacture more and more batteries, these same companies are [...]