One of the popular tourist attraction is the Circle Line boat that laps the waters around NYC. The Circle Line aka a 3 hour tour, serves as a ferry that shows off the status of liberty as well as ellis island. Circle Line has unveiled their solar/wind power hybrid electric ferry. It looks pretty futuristic [...]

Sarnia, Ontario will be the future site of the largest solar installation in North America. This solar installation will be a 40 megawatt field of panels. This installation will not be the largest solar installation in the world, currently Germany is building their own 40 megawatt solar farm. The solar farm in Canada, OptiSolar Farms [...]

While doing some research today I stumbled across some great website to help lower the cost of going green. With most technologies the new they are the more they cost. Over time the price goes down and economics of scale play a role. Anyway, please take a look at DSIRE for tax breaks for adding [...]

The German town of Dardesheim will soon be running completely on renewable energy. Most of the town has solar roofs installed as well as some huge wind turbines, like the 6 megawatt turbine, the E112. This turbine produces 12 to 15 million kWH per year! The 1,000 residents of Dardesheim want to attach tourist who [...]

It seems a lot of companies want to go green in the working world. There are many ways to easily accomplish this. One of the first ways to go green is to teach your employees/customers. You can teach this by doing something green yourself and promoting it. This is a big of a greenwashing, but [...]

Yesterday Kohls a large department store announced that they were going green by converting more then 75 percent of its California department stores to solar power starting Next month. Kohl’s plans to covert 24 of its 80 stores immediately while waiting for permits and approval for the others. Kohl’s plan to generate more then 35 [...]

Seeing how fast people are moving into cities and how much the price of a square foot costs, it only makes sense that we look at building up. We need to look at utilizing all the space we have in our large cities. While I was visiting Japan I saw many unique structures that saved [...]

The demand for solar engery has been growning expotentialy in recent studies. The solar equipment industry will grown from $20 billion last year to a predicted $90 billion in 2010. The falling cost of solar panels have also raised the demand and help the average houseown setup and install his own source of “free energy”. [...]