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Nothing in our world – cars, coffee, cat videos, canned pineapple – would exist without energy. But although energy makes everything work, most of us don’t know answers to even the most fundamental questions: How much energy do we use? And where does our energy come from? This animated video looks at how our energy sources and uses vary across time and geography.
Wind power is growing rapidly across the U.S. But the country’s oldest wind farms are reaching retirement age. So what happens when a wind farm dies?
Wineries in New York are jumping on the solar bandwagon. For some vintners, it’s an ethical decision.
Some of the world’s biggest data companies—Google, Microsoft and Facebook—have joined a new coalition that is pushing for easier access to renewable energy. Through that push, they are trying to change the nation’s energy landscape— even in states that haven’t fully embraced that change.
Picture the wind turbine technician, a worker with a hard hat and climbing harness perched atop a tall white tower, making sure those power-generating blades are spinning just right. That job is the fastest growing profession in the country right now.
Aspen, Colorado is known for being a wealthy ski town. And now it’s trying for another claim to fame — a 100 percent renewable city, only the third in the U.S.
Oregon lawmakers have passed a landmark clean-energy bill that lays out a timeline for Oregonians to stop paying for electricity from coal-fired power plants through its two largest utilities, PacifiCorp and Portland General Electric. Cassandra Profita of EarthFix reports.
As part of our series Feasting On Fuel, Grant Gerlock of Harvest Public Media looks at farmers who are turning to renewables to lessen their reliance on fossil fuels.
It takes a lot of energy to produce the food we eat, but technologies are improving to give some of that energy back to us after we’re finished with it.
