Homegrown Energy Empowers Resilient Communities
The power to change our energy future? It starts at home. "Homegrown energy" is transforming how communities generate, store, and utilize power.
Small Steps, Big Impact: Powering a Sustainable Future on Earth Day and Beyond
While the challenges facing our planet are significant, the solutions are within our reach, starting with our everyday actions.
Ten Tips to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint at Home in 2025
We all have a role to play in reducing our carbon footprints. As we usher in the new year, a great starting point is improving energy efficiency at home.
Shifting Energy Use to Off-Peak Hours is Smart for Your Wallet and the Planet
Shifting energy use to off-peak hours is a smart move for your wallet and the planet.
Cool Your Home and the Planet with Nature’s Air Conditioners
Harness the power of strategically planted trees, which are nature’s air conditioners, keeping your home cooler and reducing your reliance on AC.
French Company Uses Discarded Oyster Shells to Conserve Energy and Cool Buildings
Cool Roof France is using white paint for good around the world.
How Consumers Can Help Power the Energy Transition
With the increasing frequency of climate-related disasters, our children are growing up in a changing world. This is a growing concern..
Turn Eco-Anxiety into Climate Action
The wildfire smoke from Canada that choked New York, the Northeast and Midwest this summer made it clear there’s no escape…
How EVs Challenge and Strengthen Grid Resilience
Electrifying transportation will require more EV options, a reliable charging infrastructure, upgrades to the grid, and collaboration with consumers.
Lower Your Carbon Footprint With These Simple Tips
Personal carbon footprints are the result of decisions we make about how we get around, what we eat, what we buy, and where we live.
How Food and Climate Change Create a Vicious Cycle
Our food systems and climate change are interconnected in a destructive cycle that threaten global food security.
Climate Literacy Can Empower Climate Action
Today’s young people are living through a constant barrage of climate disasters. Most are not taught why and what can be done.
Our Warming Climate is Fading Fall Colors
Scientists have discovered that warmer weather is making the fall foliage start later, end sooner, and even change the palette.
The Complicated Relationship Between Water and Energy
We need energy systems for our water and we also need water for our energy systems
Invest in the Future of Our Planet on Earth Day
Personal carbon footprints are the result of decisions we make about how we get around, what we eat, what we buy, and where we live.
Replacing Old Windows Reduces Your Carbon Footprint
Heat gain and loss through windows are responsible for 25%–30% of residential heating and cooling energy use.
Switching to LED Bulbs Saves Money and The Planet
Solar panels and wind turbines get a lot of attention, but a more basic medium is also helping reshape the energy economy: the light bulb.