Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"?

In a Canadian province where a winter heating with electricity might cost a few hundred dollars per month minimum, this man manages to cut his heating bill by using free solar energy.

This cool, interactive solar map put out by the San Francisco Department of the Environment lets you identify exactly where and how many solar panels are on houses in San Fran. Even better than that, the site has a search

UC San Diego is using one of its free gifts - some of the best solar exposure in the country - to further power and shade the campus. Several solar trees (solar panels installed on a vertical racking system that supports

Image source: Sun Strides Sun Strides is merging two things that southern Californian's love - the sun and athletic activities - to raise funds for solar projects in Africa. 5, 10, 15K, whatever your passion or punishment, there is a spot for you at the

If you live in San Diego and find the prospect of banding together with your neighbors to get better rates on installing your own solar panels interesting, then this one is for you: 1BOG (that's One Block Off the Grid ...) has announced that they will

Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation Los Vecinos, the first LEED-Certified Platinum, 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 million USD project opened its doors

Solar grid parity will vary from city to city. A new interactive map helps show how it will spread.

A typical pacemaker could be powered by solar cells as small as 3.6 square centimeters, which could be implanted under the skin, thereby avoiding the need for periodic battery replacements.

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The

From the Redskins' huge solar installation to a solar-powered NASCAR track that mows its grass with sheep, major sporting venues can be an ideal location for solar power. From large expanses of rooftops and parking lots to their high energy needs to

Western Michigan University is installing solar-powered electric car charging. But it has to chop down nine trees to do it.

An Ann Arbor brewery has just completed a $350,000 overhaul of its facilities, all in the name of greener beer.

It wouldn't solve everything, but becoming a solar power hub could give a new spark to the area.

This could turn 5-7 billion square meters of glass in the USA alone into solar power plants, plus power your cell phone and other gadgets

Solar power is a wonderful thing but the benefits are not evenly distributed.

Fewer solar panel manufactures are willing to share information about their manufacturing practices, and that can't be good news.

Big business may be coming to the climate party late. But it is making its presence known.

When I wrote about Robert Llewellyn's solar car charging in rainy England, commenters noted that solar at home is unlikely to benefit most car drivers, as they will typically charge overnight. Situations will obviously vary

Designer Matt Kovaleski integrates a solar power system into a picnic table setup for workers at Vice

Hawaiian engineers think that it can address many of the world's problems. Are they too ambitious?

As subsidy-free renewables proliferate, it will become harder to derail decarbonization.

Haitian schools connect to the internet for the first time, powered by the sun.

Small-scale solar panels promise many off-grid applications for renewable energy, and the SolarPuff is a particularly elegant example.

Duke Energy Corp. is reportedly discussing with BMW Manufacturing Co. the potential for building a solar energy plant at the car company's Spartanburg South Carolina USA facility. Well, isn't that a German sort of response to US government pressure?

For as long as our planet has spun 'round the sun, there's been solar energy cascading down on the earth, and, for a long time -- since the 7th century B.C., when glass was used to magnify it -- humans have been working to

Pollinator power, y'all.

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.

Move over, regular solar panels.

Buying products from solar farms is just one more way to support clean energy.

Now that's progress...

Home owners are going solar, without having to put anything on their roof.

Stanford scientists figure out a way to get hydrogen out of seawater. Does this matter?

Sometimes we should just let a bad idea die.

The mapping technology will eventually be used to get precise solar power potential information for any location around the world.

One solution for purifying water in remote off-grid areas comes in the form of a wagon, complete with solar panel and water purification system.

As you can see in the satellite photos above, California is experiencing a massive drought over most of the state. The most visible aspect from space is the snow cover (or lack thereof) over the Sierra Nevada mountain range

Not long ago, my parents installed a sizable solar array on their home in England. Now my brother has just emailed with photos of his own installation. What's going on? Besides providing more evidence that solar feed-in

The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of

As it turns out, personal energy choices can be contagious.

Simmer like a crock pot and bake like an oven, using the clean energy of sunlight.

It's urban, Passive House and prefab. What's not to love?

Braving polar bears and subfreezing temperatures, years of preparation pay off for a University of Hawaii astronomy team.

When the oft-predicted water wars start, we're going to want this technology on our side. Let's hope it survives the budget wars.

However the referendum in South Sudan turns out, one thing will not go away quickly: the lack of water in the region. The International Committee of the Red Cross, however, is at work on a project that will mitigate that

Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that

Solar Sister showcased just some of the efforts taking place around the world. Here, the Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Mauritania install solar panels in their villages. They received training in Rajasthan, India. Image: Barefoot Photographers of

Here's a building that saves up to 50% CO2 by controlling the sunlight with screens on its facade.

TreeHugger just keeps on having to eat its hat with these guys.

Solar power has grown up, and it's ready to blow up.