Clean Energy

How to tap the sun, wind, tide, and other planet-friendly sources of power.

Growing Power in an Urban Food Desert

by Roger Bybee

posted Feb 13, 2009

Will Allen’s farm offers fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, and a taste of the delicious possibilities of farming the urban food deserts.

Social Change not Climate Change

by Juliette Beck

posted Aug 14, 2008

Activists and communities in the United Kingdom—where over two hundred years ago, the first lumps of coal were burnt to power the industrial revolution—are igniting a historic revolution of their own. Last week, over 1500 people from all walks of life converged in the Kent countryside, just one-hour southeast of London by train, to rally against climate change in a demonstration of collective, sustainable living and creative direct action.

The First Rural Women Heroes of Tombouctou

posted May 07, 2008

If a village in Tombouctou can be solar electrified against such tremendous odds adopting a Barefoot approach, then it is possible to replicate this process anywhere.

The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of the Gambia

posted Feb 14, 2008

See the solar installation in process, start to finish: follow two rural illiterate women from The Gambia who learn how to become Barefoot Solar Engineers.

Let the Sun Shine In (and some wind, too)

posted Feb 08, 2008

 

Barefoot Photographers :: Photo Essay :4:

posted Feb 08, 2008

 

13 Best Energy Ideas

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Jan 29, 2008

Investment in energy projects will total $16 trillion in the next two decades. Sarah van Gelder lays out over a dozen sustainable energy policies and technologies that can make our infrastructure more climate friendly.

Electricity: An Astonishing Abundance

by Guy Dauncey

posted Jan 29, 2008

Solar energy from photovoltaics, energy from wind, energy from waves and times and from geothermal sources add up to enough to transition from fossil fuels. It is doable.

Local Energy, Local Power

by Winona LaDuke

posted Nov 07, 2006

Energy for Democracy - wind on the Great Plains could power the country. Tribes are working to bring energy production home.

It Takes Energy to Make Energy

by Doug Pibel

posted May 11, 2006

Biofuel creation graphically explained.

Peak oil preview: North Korea & Cuba

by Dale Jiajun Wen

posted May 05, 2006

Cuba survived much more comfortably than North Korea after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent diminished oil supply. The government reaction of both countries is examined as a precursor to Peak Oil throughout the world.

Cool Technologies

posted Aug 10, 2004

Ten of our favorite simple ways to cut oil dependence.

Getting There on Less

by Guy Dauncey

posted Aug 10, 2004

How might we get around with less oil? Here’s a 12-step program to kick our addiction to gas guzzling.

Resource Guide: Can We Live Without Oil?

posted Jul 27, 2004

Books and website listings that deal with alternatives to oil, and conservation. energy efficiency and renewable energy/fuels, alternative transportation, understanding the problem with oil

Tribes Find Power In Wind

by Winona LaDuke

posted May 20, 2004

Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, COUP, first wind generator dedicated on Rosebud Reservation, clean energy windshed. sustainable homeland economic development. summer 2003.

A Sustainable Energy Plan For the US

by Guy Dauncey

posted Sep 30, 2001

Examines the policies, technologies, and strategies that could lead the US and the world to a sustainable energy future.

Where There's a Way

by Michael M'Gonigle

posted Jun 30, 2001

Where there's a way, by Michael M'Gonigle. Global Trade Agreements are just the latest way local communities are losing control over the surrounding forests and the watersheds. If there was a way to reclaim the commons, might there also be a political will?

Yes But How?

by Doug Pibel, Annie Berthold-Bond

posted Aug 30, 1998

Green Electricity, Avoiding Dry-Cleaning , Using Black Birch , and Non-toxic Wood Stain