August 12th, 2022
Via Good News Network, a report on an innovative use of storage facility roof space to bring power to 1,400 homes: New Jersey’s largest community solar owner and operator had the bright idea to cover storage space with solar panels. The project was seen through to its conclusion, and now an Extra Space Storage site in Neptune, NJ, boats a […]
Read more »Why Putting Solar Canopies on Parking Lots Is a Smart Green Move
August 10th, 2022
Via Yale e360, an article on why placing solar canopies on large parking lots offers a host of advantages — making use of land that is already cleared, producing electricity close to those who need it, and even shading cars: Fly into Orlando, Florida, and you may notice a 22-acre solar power array in the […]
Read more »June 8th, 2022
Via GreenRoofs.com, an article on the potential to utilize malls for a more ecological purpose: Alexandra Lange of The New York Times writes: It is easy to think of indoor and even outdoor malls as anti-landscape: big asphalt parking lots, blank walls, artificial lighting, manufactured scents, digital sounds. But the origin of mall architecture was […]
Read more »Installing Rooftop Solar Can Be a Breeze. Just Look at Australia.
June 8th, 2022
Via The New York Times, commentary on Australia’s leadership in the rooftop solar sector: I recently moved back here to my home country partly because I believe Australians can show the world how much money households can save through simple climate solutions like rooftop solar How is it that Australia, a country that historically has […]
Read more »June 7th, 2022
Via 3M, news of how one million trees’ worth of smog-fighting capacity has been installed on roofs using Malarkey Roofing Products shingles with 3M Smog-reducing Granules: Since the launch of the world’s first smog-reducing shingle, Malarkey Roofing Products has provided the industry with enough roofing materials to protect more than 400,000 roofs. Because each roof […]
Read more »EU Set to Make Solar Panels Mandatory on All New Buildings
June 4th, 2022
Via Earth.org, a report on the EU’s decision – in order to make solar the largest electricity source in the EU – to propose plans for mandatory solar panels on all new buildings by 2029: The EU aims to bring online over 320 GW (320,000 MW) of Solar Energy by 2025 & 600 GW (600,000 […]
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