Here’s some sunny news from the Star Tribune: this summer, the IKEA in Bloomington will install a rooftop solar array nearly twice the size of the one on the Minneapolis Convention Center roof (currently, the state’s largest), increasing the amount of solar in Minnesota by about 20 percent.

We’ve long maintained that clean energy and efficiency are good for the economy. Now there’s even more proof.

Contrary to what you might have seen on the news or read online, 100-watt incandescent light bulbs were not banned as of January 1, 2012.

Minnesota’s Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) requires utilities to increase the amount of renewable resources in their energy mix. So how is that affecting your power bill?

Is there a way to harvest renewable energy at home and sell the electricity you don’t use?

Don’t throw old, broken, or unwanted holiday lights in the garbage. Recycle them!

Burning coal pollutes our water and air and affects human health. But it also leaves behind a mess called coal ash. Coal ash contains all of coal’s heavy metals and contaminants—like arsenic, lead, mercury, and more—but in a more concentrated form.

Community-owned renewable electricity generation projects, the kind owned by local individuals and businesses, provide communities substantial economic benefits. But sometimes it’s hard to get financing for small projects. That’s where the Community Wind Act comes in.

The back and forth about subsidies is becoming tiresome, don’t you think? Especially since, no electricity generation technology or resource has been developed in the United States without significant subsidies.

And the winner of Environment Minnesota’s solar short film contest is…