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EarthTalk

Perovskite Solar: Bring On The Future

Roddy Scheer cells, energy, panels, perovskite, power, solar

Could the added efficiency of perovskite solar cells make solar power usable for more people around the world, even in less-than-sunny locales?

EarthTalk

Future Home: Green Upgrades Becoming The Norm

Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss array, efficiency, energy, future home, photovoltaic, roof, rooftop, solar, turbine, wind, windmill

With California leading the way mandating all new residential construction meet strict “net zero emissions” standards beginning in 2020, the home of the future is almost here.

Conscious Consumer

Mineral-Based Sunscreens: Better for the Environment, Human Health

Kate Harveston block, Chemical, consumer, mineral, mineral-based, oxybenzone, radiation, solar, summer, sun, sunblock, sunscreen, ultraviolet, UV

Mineral-based sunscreens are better for the environment and our personal health, but can be harder to find and more expensive than their traditional counterparts.

EarthTalk

Ready For A New Solar Roof?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Apollo, BIPV, building integrated, CertainTeed, Forward Labs, photovoltaic, PowerHouse, RGS Energy, roof, Silicon Valley, solar, solarroof, start-up, startup, Tesla

Forward Labs and Solar Frontier are two of the companies challenging Tesla’s dominance in the nascent solar roof technology market…

Podcast

Interview: VSF Solar’s Walter McLeod Discusses Ramping Up Solar to Utility-Scale

Ethan Goffman alternative, Dominion, Duke Energy, energy, George Mason, George Washington, grid, podcast, power, renewable, scale, solar, University, utility, Virginia, VSF Solar

Walter McCleod of VSF Solar discusses the challenges of ramping up solar power to utility-scale across the mid-Atlantic region and beyond…

Trump Watch

Renewable Sector Reeling from Trump’s Tariff on Foreign-Made Solar Panels

E The Environmental Magazine solar, SolarWorld, Suniva, tariff, The Hill, world trade organization, WTO

Consumers can expect to pay 15% more overall for rooftop solar installations once President Trump’s 30% tariff on foreign-made photovoltaic panels kicks in.

Podcast

Interview: Solar Mowing Founder and Author Lynda DeWitt

Ethan Goffman alternative, DeWitt, energy, lawn, Lynda, mow, mower, mowing, podcast, power, powered, push, solar

Solar Mowing founder Lynda DeWitt discusses how working as a children’s book author and editor at leading environmental periodicals led her to start her sun-powered lawn mowing company Solar Mowing…

Soap Box

We Need to Reevaluate Our Relationship With Oil

Kate Harveston accident, alternative, barrel, demand, energy, extraction, geotherman, leak, oil, petrol, petroleum, pipeline, price, renewables, solar, spill, supply, wind, workers

Given rising prices, dwindling supply and environmental hazards, the United States desperately needs to reevaluate its relationship with oil…

EarthTalk

Rooftop Solar: Now’s the Time to Get Started

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer alternative, Arizona, California, Database, Department of Energy, DoE, DSIRE, energy, Energy Sage, Hawaii, incentives, Massachusetts, NABCEP, New Jersey, power, renewable, Residential Consumer Guide to Solar Power, solar, SolarCity, State, sun, Sunnova, SunPower, SunRun, Vivint

There’s never been a better time to go solar, given how much prices have come down while efficiency in converting sunlight to electricity has risen…

Behind the Greens

How You Can Convince Leaders in Your Community to Adopt Eco-Friendly Practices

Megan Wild activism, allies, alternative, buy local, carbon dioxide, change, community, community solar, confront, convince, do it, energy, face-to-face, food, in-person, leaders, policy, policymakers, renewable, research, retro-commissioning, solar, urge

If you want to convince your community leaders to adopt eco-friendly practices, you’ve got to do your research & look for in-person opportunities…