Small Dollar, Big Impact

August 29, 2025

The Earth doesn’t care where cuts to heat-trapping pollution happen. So if we’re interested in getting the biggest bang for our climate buck,...

Solar Power to the People

February 14, 2025

At this moment, the cheapest way to create electricity is by pointing a solar panel at the sun. That’s good news for the climate. It’s also...

Even Old Houses Can Learn New Elec-Tricks

January 17, 2025

If we include personal cars, along with appliances like water heaters, stoves and furnaces, more than 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions...

Transfer of Power: Life After Coal

December 13, 2024

For more than a century, coal powered much of the U.S. Now it's on its way out. That means all across the country, the communities that were built...

Green Energy / Red States

July 14, 2023

Billions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act have started flowing into renewable energy projects and manufacturing. That’s bringing jobs...

REWIND: Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival

January 6, 2023

After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the climate crisis as an...

Rebuilding for Climate: Successful City Strategies

June 24, 2022

83% of people in the United States live in urban areas. And these days that’s where important climate progress is happening. Cities all over the...

Solar Flare-ups

April 1, 2022

Solar power has become one of the cheapest sources of electricity and is viewed as a cornerstone of our clean energy future. But it wasn’t...

Mark Carney, Fatih Birol and the Narrow Path to Net Zero

July 9, 2021

Five years ago, most of the world’s nations entered into an agreement to dramatically ratchet down their carbon dioxide emissions with the goal...

Superpower: How Renewables are Transforming America's Energy Future

August 16, 2019

What’s new in renewable energy?
In April, 23 percent of America’s electricity came from renewables, surpassing coal for the first time. Ten...