Via EarthTechling, a report on IKEA’s solar power strategy: You imagine Ikea’s renewable energy people greeting the news that the store in Stoughton, Mass., outside Boston, would be expanding with whoops and hollers and high-fives. Because at Ikea, more roof seems to mean more solar. The company said this week that the solar capacity at the […]
Read more »Via Celsias, an article on three investment vehicles that could revolutionize rooftop solar: There is no denying that the solar industry is growing at an incredible rate. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) estimates 723 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic (PV) capacity was installed in the first quarter of 2013, representing a 33% increase in deployment levels […]
Read more »Via Forbes, a look at residential solar leasing: Solar upstarts like Sunnova will lease you a roof-full of panels for about the same price you pay your old-fashioned electric utility. This has the makings of a solar boom. With the loud bang of an exploding transformer the power went out at my house last Friday […]
Read more »Via NPR, a look at rooftop farming: Stacey Kimmons and Audra Lewicki harvest lettuce at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 20,000-square-foot vegetable garden atop McCormick Place West in Chicago. From vacant lots to ,” urban farmers are scouring cities for spaces to grow food. But their options vary widely from place to place. While farmers in […]
Read more »Via The Guardian, an article on how offices are increasingly turning their roofs into edible gardens and bee sanctuaries: The edible roof garden on top of the Bloomsbury Street Hotel. Photograph: inmidtown Green roofing – the practice of planting vegetation on a building’s roof or terrace – is the ultimate in urban landscaping, making the […]
Read more »Via Business Insider, a look at five reasons solar energy is apt to explode in the near-term. Of particular note is the evolution of yield co’s: We just told you that if current rates hold, there will be one new solar installation built in the U.S. every 83 seconds by 2016, for a total of […]
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