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 […]
Read more »June 1st, 2022
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on Hawaii’s efforts to to replace coal and oil with solar energy, aiming to rely extensively on rooftop panels on single-family homes: Toddi Nakagawa, who lives in a suburb of Honolulu, has spent years battling her family’s high electricity bills, which once topped $500 a month, by gradually […]
Read more »Airports: Giant Solar Farms?
May 12th, 2022
Via WIRED, a look at the potential of turning airports into solar farms: The next time you’re staring out a plane window during takeoff or landing, give the airport a scan. You’ll see hangars and other support buildings and, of course, the terminal. But mostly, you’ll see lots of empty space. Airplanes, as many aeronautical […]
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