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I’m writing from a restaurant in the Mexico City airport, a plate of spicy fajitas in my belly.

The end of the solar company--with $1 billion in investments and hundreds of millions in government loans--is bad for the U.S. economy.

I was lifting weights at my gym, a community center in New York City, when he caught my attention. His name, I later found out, was Marvin Moster. He stood a few inches over five feet, mostly bald with some white hair on the sides of his head, sporting a mustache, and wearing a light blue shirt and dark blue shorts.

New technologies don't just recycle plastic into new plastic.

Responding to criticisms that its ratings can be meaningless and easily gamed, the USGBC is introducing new rules so buildings must continually recertify and measure their energy use against their neighbors.

From superstar athletes to self-help devotees, advocates of positive thinking--imagining yourself succeeding at something you want to happen--believe it is a surefire way to help you attain a goal. Past studies have backed that idea, too, but now researchers are refining the picture. Paint your fantasy in too rosy a hue, and you may be hurting your chances of success.

Here comes the next generation of innovators revolutionizing batteries. Paula Hammond makes superthin batteries that can store a lot of energy and discharge--and charge--rapidly

Utilities are big and slow and doing a bad job preparing for the smart-grid-enabled future. Those who can't wait are setting up smaller grids, which are becoming test sites for smart energy management technology

It sounds like a forward-thinking energy policy, but giving away the bulbs won't solve the country's electricity problems, and the money could be spent on developing truly innovative solutions. Zimbabwe's power supply is erratic, to say the least

Everything that needs to be said of Steve Jobs has already been written. Here's the most meta version of the story you will read online, offline, and everywhere else. If you read only one story about Steve Jobs today (yeah, right) make it this one

The expression “beauty’s only skin-deep” has often been applied to the chemistry of materials because so much action takes place at the surface.

While it may seem that people want to cut back on spending, companies that shape up inefficient buildings and get paid back via the energy savings are doing booming business. What's the ideal economic environment to get a free high-efficiency upgrade worth tens of millions dollars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers utilizing high-brightness x-rays at the U.S.

New renovations will let even "Post-Panamax" ships cross the isthmus, altering the economics of global shipping to the advantage of countries that produce cheap goods for the developed world. What a difference a century makes.

Cleaning the dirty water from our drains and toilets is an expensive and energy-sucking task.