Over the past few decades eco-friendliness has become ever more important as devastating effects of climate change have been emerging globally. Almost everyone is aware of global warming to some degree and measures have been implicated so that proprietors and business owners have to adhere to certain rules regarding waste and…

The heat wave that has already taken 22 lives has reached the East Coast. I confess to cranking up the air-conditioning, though not to the icebox-like conditions of my local supermarket. I’m just hoping we won’t have a power outage like the three-day one that Ottawa had. As Bryan Walsh writes in Time magazine, the heat…

According to a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, wind energy is now cost competitive with coal power in many parts of the world. With demand rising for wind turbines over the last couple years, many manufacturers have reduced their prices. The Bloomberg…

Sewage treatment facilities in New York City are now on course to begin generating and selling clean energy. Methane gas will be captured from digesters, heating fuel will be extracted from waste, and butanol — a gasoline alternative — will be extracted from algae that grows in wastewater. This will help reduce the 1,200 tons…

U.S.- based SunEdison has successfully launched Europe’s largest single site solar plant, a 70-megawatt facility generating enough green energy to power around 17,000 homes each year. Located in Italy between the cities of Venice and Bologna, the project was approved by the Italian government in March and construction was finished last month. For a project of this magnitude to be completed within such…