Green Options

Taipei Pop Music Center has opened up an amazing architecture design competition for it’s new building. Nabito Architects has drafted and shared their vision of the new Taipei Pop Music Center composed of a “photovoltaic screen and a wall of LED panels”

The screen of the Pop Music Center may:

• have a LED media wall reporting news, weather, event info and ads.
• be powered entirely by the sun and set an example for green energy in the city of Taipei
• include photovoltaic cell technology, with an LED wall
• have controls set by a central computer, to show all events scheduled and more

A Spanish company called Turtle Airships is working on plans to build a luxurious solar-powered blimp which can take passengers from New York to Paris.

Perhaps the only thing cooler than being powered by lightweight photovoltaic cells, this airship is also designed to rest on land or water.

A recent study finds that one chemical’s emissions are four times more common in the atmosphere than previously thought, and thousands of times more effective at trapping heat than Carbon Dioxide.

There’s good news for the future of green-collar employment, but it comes with a caveat: maximizing job growth in green industries will require the right public policy support. That means law-makers need to approve measures such as a renewable portfolio standard, incentives for renewable energy, public education programs and adequate funding for research and development.

If such measures are put in place, the U.S. could see as many as one out of every four [...]

The demand for solar energy is expanding rapidly, but one of the industry’s obstacles to even faster growth has always been the difficulty of getting enough silicon to make photovoltaic cells for solar panels.

This week, though, IBM announced a new potential source for much-needed silicon: waste silicon wafers used to make semiconductor chips for computers,

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The City of San Diego launched today a new 1.1 megawatt solar power installation at the Alvarado Water Treatment Plant. The system, which is only the start of a large photovoltaic expansion, will provide about 20% of the plant's power with expected savings of $40,000 a year.

With sunny skies one reason people love San Diego, the city is using this natural renewable resource to green several facilities over the coming years. Eventually, multiple

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