Living on Sunshine: A Real, Sustainable Energy Model

Living on Sunshine: A Real, Sustainable Energy Model

A farmstead in Virgina has built a sustainable low-energy lifestyle. Can the rest of us follow their example?

By Alexis Zeigler | January 2, 2019 | Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Society | AC Power, Agriculture, Batteries, Community, Daylight Drive, DC Power, Fossil Fuels, Green Energy, Heat, Infrastructure, LEDs, Living Energy Farm, Photovoltaics, PV, Refrigeration, Renewable Energy, Scalability, Solar Power, Sustainability

Are We Conditioning Our Air or Ourselves?

Air conditioning is ruining our body’s ability to adapt to heat, while it wastes a tremendous, and growing, amount of energy.

By Samantha Maxwell | September 15, 2018 | Environment | Acclimatization, Air Conditioning, Architecture, CFCs, Comfort, Cooling, Electricity, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Heat, HFCs, Willis Carrier

Portland Becomes First US City to Stop Fossil Fuel Expansion

Responding to powerful grass-roots activism, Portland’s government passed a law, recently upheld by the Oregon Court of Appeals, to arrest further construction or expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in the city.

By Kevon Paynter | March 7, 2018 | Community, Environment, Government, Health, Law | 350.org, Activism, California, Carbon Dioxide, Chevron, Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Climate March, Energy, Environmentalism, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuels, Idaho, Kayaktivism, Natural Gas, Oil, Oregon, Pipelines, Political Action, Portland, Propane, Renewable Energy, Shell, Washington, Willamette River