Buying LED bulbs: What to look for
Inefficient light bulbs – like incandescents and fluorescents – are being phased out for LEDs. To get the right LED, you’ll need to know how to pick the right brightness, color and bulb type for your home.
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Life after life: A second chance for EV batteries
EVs offer the promise of clean transportation, but recycling their batteries is no easy task. Researchers are looking to give end-of-life EV batteries a new purpose: in our power grid.
An opportunity for renewable energy: California offshore wind
Developing just a fraction of California's immense offshore wind resources would be a big step towards achieving the state's climate and energy goals. The California Energy Commission's recent draft report lays the groundwork for the emergence of offshore wind.
How crypto made me fall in love with carbon pricing all over again
There is no earthly reason why cryptocurrency miners should be allowed to pollute the climate cost-free to support an endeavor whose contribution to our well-being is minimal, if not negative.
True “Confessions”: Lessons on building dynamic systems from a recovering engineer
Building systems that are designed from the start to be flexible, adaptable and reliant on empowered people can be an effective strategy to build up not only strong towns, but sustainable ones as well.
The highways had to go somewhere. Fixing the deficit in our political imagination.
If we are ever going to address a problem as big as, for example, climate change, we need to relentlessly question the absurdity of the status quo, to go beyond considering ways to make our current systems and modes of development incrementally less bad or less unjust, and imagine how those systems can be transformed into something qualitatively better.