After reading this month’s Powering Progress and discovering how essential building codes are to a modern community’s safety and energy efficiency, you’re undoubtedly wondering, Whence came building codes?

We’ve written frequently about the public health toll of coal plants. We all know someone with heart disease or asthma, and it’s infuriating to imagine coal plant pollution worsening those conditions. Ratchet that anger up a notch: a recent NPR story, “A Disappearing Town in the Shadow of Big Coal,” tells the story of how a coal plant destroyed an entire village.

Arguably the Earth’s most tried-and-true energy source, the Sun rises every day, providing light and heat, inspiring poetry, and making us squint. It gives us vegetables, tan lines, and—once we’ve got the right equipment—endless free fuel for electricity.

4.11.2012 // Please join us for a discussion about moving northeastern Minnesota to a clean energy future.

The way you make electricity, Fresh Energy executive director Michael Noble once said, is “not very complicated. You just need to spin a turbine.”

Tell your U.S. senators to block any provision for approving the Keystone XL pipeline.

Greentech Media’s “Solar Power Year in Review 2011” takes a look back at the top news and trends in solar from the last 12 months.

Decreasing U.S. demand for tobacco and coal leads execs in both industries to seek new markets, and they’ve found seemingly insatiable demand in China.

Ever wonder what’s going on under the surface of a hybrid car?

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