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In an interesting interview with Yale Environment 360, David Crane CEO of NRG Energy – a Fortune 500 power company in the United States – describes climate change as a ‘slow-moving catastrophe’ and discusses why he, who runs a company with huge investments in oil, coal and gas, is a renewable energy advocate. A very [...]

The race is on for tech giants Facebook, IBM and Apple all announcing their investments in solar power; IBM’s rooftop solar array in India vs. Facebook’s hybrid solar plant at Menlo Park campus vs. Apple’s plans for a giant solar farm in North Carolina. For Facebook  however the decision to go solar was most likely [...]

Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics  last week indicate under one in ten home owners have a solar hot water system. That means nine out of ten home owners are spending copious amounts on water usage – and have a high electricity bill to prove it. Read the article below to see what the government aims to [...]

Did you know that on 31 October 2011, the world’s population will reach 7 billion people? This is definitely an amazing achievement but while we are all celebrating the gift of life, we tend to forget the implications a world of seven billion people has on our environment, infrastructure, employment & overall well-being and standards of living.  [...]