It’s not necessary to become a nerd to know how wind power works
Wind is a result from the uneven heating of the Earth by the sun and the fact that temperatures will always be attempting to reach an equilibrium (heat is definitely moving to a cooler area). With the rising price of energy and the [...]

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Only two things are certain in life and neither one is an ideal topic for a blog post. But April is just around the corner, and now would be a good time as any to talk about taxes, particularly, your energy tax credits.

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These days I can’t seem to think of Copenhagen without thinking of the game charades, which our artsy-fartsy group back in college used to play every weekend – no offense to our Danish friends. But the NatGeo video above showcasing Danish families generating their own electricity through windpower is quite inspiring. I think it shows [...]

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One of our more popular stories last week was about China taking the leadership on renewables development and overtaking the United States as the world’s largest clean energy market. We waited for an answer and it wasn’t long in coming. Who else would take the cudgels for the US but our own energy capital, the [...]

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America invented the renewable energy industry but China is surging ahead with its renewables program and is on track to overtake the US as the world’s largest market for new wind power installations. A study conducted by researchers from Harvard University and China’s Tsinghua University suggests that the Chinese will be able to meet all [...]

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Recession has undeniably dealt a devastating economic blow to almost every town and city in America. And nowhere is the economic difficulty more deeply felt than in auto-manufacturing towns in the north. One of these towns is  Wixom, in Michigan, where a Ford plant used to employ 3,000 people making Lincolns and Continentals – until [...]

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