Category: Climate Action & Science

In June, Germany’s Manager Magazin reported that Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume had a plan to close four factories in Germany and eliminate 100,000 workers, both in Germany and around the world, by 2030. It said the…

I will soon be insulating and finishing an interior scissor truss ceiling in climate zone 7 with a vented attic above.  The bottom truss chords will be insulated with rockwool… Source: Green Building Advisor.

For almost nine years, we have been helping our client, Qing, build a 730-square-foot cottage on the water in Bodega Bay, California, the foggy coastal village where Alfred Hitchcock filmed The Birds in 1963.…

Architecture that relies on the strength of horizontal planes to create shade, comfort, and presence. At the client’s request, we developed a home for the family to spend extended periods at the beach while…

If you are thinking about buying an electric car, just do it, buy a pure battery electric car! A battery electric vehicle (BEV) is more reliable, more convenient for local driving, smoother, and better…

Drivers opening an EV charging app for the first time today will be presented with thousands of so-called “public” chargers at local car dealers. Once they arrive, however, the store’s customers, store hours, security…

Earlier this week, a home solar shopper took to Reddit looking for a home solar panel + home backu battery system that could intelligently manage solar and grid power, auto switch in a power…

Editor’s note: The following article by Allison Bailes originally appeared in Fine Homebuilding #265, March 2017. While many discussions about ductwork focus on wasted energy and comfort, this article explains… Source: Green Building Advisor.

A Village Where Street Culture, Community, and Nature Converge – Bangkok is a cultural palimpsest shaped by layers of street markets, temples, contemporary skyscrapers, and organically evolved urban structures. Born from the streets of…

In a recent post on X, Elon Musk lauded Tesla Australia in reaction to this post from Tesla Australia and New Zealand: “For the first time ever, EVs outsold ICE vehicles in Australia 🇦🇺…

Hydrogen cost forecasts often borrow one of the clean-energy transition’s most useful empirical tools: the experience curve. If a technology has historically fallen by a given percentage in cost every time cumulative deployment doubles,…

Energy Transfer has not yet been charged, but it is already moving to head off a criminal case over the monthslong jet fuel leak into a neighborhood’s drinking water source.By Marianne Lavelle Energy Transfer,…