Clean energy projects for Washington groups including public utilities, the Yakama Nation, and others will receive funding from grants announced this week by the U.S. Department of Energy and the… Read More
Sustainable Living Innovations, a Seattle tech company that’s created a new way to build commercial structures, broke ground Thursday on a 15-story development that’s pegged as the world’s first “net… Read More
Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it will provide key communications and propulsion capabilities to Southwest Research Institute in support of a NASA mission to study how the sun’s corona whips… Read More
Amazon announced its first solar energy facility in China on Thursday, one of five renewable energy projects the company is planning around the world. The other facilities will be built… Read More
In many ways, Burning Man is an eco-urbanist paradise. It is a (mostly) car-free city designed around pedestrians and cyclists, where respect for the land and reducing waste are deeply… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos celebrated the opening of Amazon’s newest wind farm, and he did it in style. A tweet from Bezos showed the Amazon chief executive perched high atop… Read More
Amazon is pledging to install solar energy systems on 50 of its fulfillment center rooftops around the world by 2020, starting with 15 U.S. facilities this year. The initiative, announced this morning,… Read More
It’s time for iCloud to soak up some rays. Apple’s data center in Reno will reportedly be powered by a solar farm. The company is partnering with NV Energy to… Read More
One of the challenges with solar power in Seattle — in addition to the abundance of gray skies — is that many people live in apartments and condos where they… Read More
The way the rains have been hammering Seattle over the past few months, I am not sure if this technology will actually prove beneficial or not. But Qwest Field’s Event… Read More