Printable solar cells have long been a dream of the renewable energy crowd. Just the thought of being able to slap some paper in your inkjet and run off a few hundred solar cells makes even the person with an average interest in “going green” take notice. While the specialty materials aren’t available to the [...]
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There’s no way to have missed the news that Dallas has gone green if you live there; a Dallas mayor (Mayor Laura Miller) helped form the Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition in the summer of 2006. April 9th, 2008, the Dallas City Council passed a comprehensive green building standard for all new construction. What about [...]
By now, everyone has heard the term “green building” as a description for environmentally safe, sustainable construction. However, for some, green building brings to mind something out of a science fiction novel: roofs sparkle and shine with solar powered panels, wastewater is recycled, and geothermal pumps heat and cool water while small white windmills, cables [...]

