Green in the News: September 2013
Living Roof to be Installed at Connecticut’s Phoenix Plaza Hartford, Connecticut’s historic “Boat Building,” touted as the world’s first two-sided building, is undergoing renovations that will include...
View ArticleGreen in the News: October 2013
The World’s Largest Solar Boat—MS Tûranor PlanetSolar—Traverses the Globe Once More Another glorious voyage of the exclusively solar-powered boat has concluded in Paris after a transatlantic mission...
View ArticleGreen in the News: November 2013
Reforest Arizona Green Living magazine is partnering with The Arizona Community Tree Council to replenish the forests in northern Arizona that were devastated by fire three years ago. More than...
View ArticleGreen in the News: January 2014
Agribusiness Leader Announces Policy to Protect Forests and Communities Climate Advisers and The Forest Trust (TFT) joined Asia’s largest agribusiness company, Wilmar International, and global consumer...
View ArticleWhat does soccer have to do with sustainability? Event connects communities...
by Katie Peige Halfway around the world in Africa, rural communities are coming into the light. Here, along the equator where there are about twelve hours of sunlight a day and twelve hours of...
View ArticleTeaming Up for Ghana: Earth Day Soccer Classic Registration Begins
By Katie Peige Registration is now open for the inaugural Earth Day Soccer Classic: Kick-it with Africa, a bi-continental co-ed soccer tournament to be held April 12 at Arizona State University’s Tempe...
View ArticleSolar Generator Benefits Haitians
ExTreme ReTrailers, LLC, announced it will be donating a custom-designed, mobile solar generator to Hope for Haiti’s Children, a non-profit organization that provides a bridge for individuals,...
View ArticleGreen in the News: May 2014
Solar at Fort Huachuca The U.S. Army has announced plans to develop a solar array that will provide about 25 percent of the annual installation electricity requirement of Fort Huachuca. The Fort...
View ArticleThe Potential of Solar Power
By Daniela Applegate Solar power is a growing trend and an eco-friendly and abundant form of energy that everyone, including homeowners, should be made aware of. As many people are beginning to...
View ArticleGet Ready For The Solar Revolution
By Anton G. Camarota, PhD Something very important happened in 2013 that you may not have noticed: the price of electricity from solar rooftop cells dropped to the point where in most locations...
View ArticleGreen In The News: July 2015
Solar Impulse 2 to Make a Stop in the Valley The Solar Impulse 2, one of the world’s first solar powered planes, is scheduled to land in Phoenix in mid-July. It will be one of the plane’s 12 scheduled...
View ArticleFueling the Future: Q&A with GreenFuel Technologies
By Rachel Gossen Established in 1999, GreenFuel Technologies (GFT) has become one of Arizona’s leading solar energy businesses. Chief Operating Officer David Brooks shared with us how GFT has remained...
View ArticleWISE Women Work in Solar
by Roxanne Bowers The solar energy industry is growing at an amazingly rapid pace, at 20 percent faster-than-average job growth, according to The Solar Foundation. However, when we look at the solar...
View ArticleSolar Impulse 2 Grounded in Hawaii
By Rachel Gossen One of the world’s first solar powered planes, the Solar Impulse 2, has accrued damage to its battery system, and will have to halt the second half of its round-the-world flight. The...
View ArticleLiving with Less Water: The Energy Connections
by David Schaller In his recently acclaimed 2013 treatise “A Great Aridness,” William deBuys states emphatically that energy “is the most underreported story in the looming water crisis of the...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Energy Recognizes Arizona School
By Rachel Gossen On Wednesday, the Dysart Unified School District and Kingswood Elementary was recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as a leader in energy efficiency and renewable energy...
View ArticleSRP to Purchase Energy from Apple Solar Power Plant
By Bharat Venkatesh The Board of Directors of Salt River Project (SRP), a community-based nonprofit public power utility that serves about one million customers in Maricopa and Pinal counties, have...
View ArticleGeneral Motors IT Innovation Center Achieves LEED Gold Certification
By Bharat Venkatesh The General Motors IT Innovation Center in Chandler recently achieved LEED Gold level certification, greatly assisted by the many high-performance building strategies Green Ideas in...
View ArticleLiberty Wildlife Opens Remarkable New Facility
By Gail Cochrane Any animal lover who has found a featherless baby bird lying forlorn on a sidewalk, or come upon an injured raptor that’s flown into a window or been hit by a car, knows the...
View ArticlePrescott’s Palsolaral House Shines: The Towering Achievement of Falcon Nest
This home soars. At 124 feet, Falcon Nest is the country’s tallest single-family house. It was designed by Phoenix architect Sukumar Pal, AIA, and built beside the 6,514-foot Thumb Butte in Prescott,...
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