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February 19th, 2017 by Chris Dragon In Part 2, we talked about heating hot water with electricity with a goal of supplying 100% of that electricity with solar panels. Remember, we aren’t trying to cover 100% of instantaneous electricity use with solar...

Durban, South Africa. Sometimes a single event reveals crucial stories about our strengths and weaknesses in advancing progressive social change and ecological sanity. Early last month I sought out intersections between three simple phenomena: the predatory...

Avoiding the 'Energy Abyss' John Hofmeister doesn’t call it ‘peak oil,’ instead he calls it the ‘energy abyss,’ the point at which the global economy ceases to grow because the oil industry can no longer meet demand. Hofmeister is the former president...

Kia Ceed SW, 2013 Just three months after the arrival of the stylish all-new Kia cee'd hatchback a second model joins the family - the Kia cee'd Sportswagon. Replacing the former Kia Ceed SW, it introduces a new model name which perfectly captures the...

Plug-in hybrids were first introduced in late 2010, and several automakers have said we will be seeing several more over the next few years. To date the selection for sale in the U.S. tallies to nine but reasons why they are on the rise include they...