Elizabeth Wilder is a freelance writer based in Houston, Texas.
Before she was a surgeon, she was a volunteer firefighter. Her favorite song is “A Few More Rednecks” by the Charlie Daniels Band. She loves to…
What is the right to emit carbon worth? One dollar per metric ton? Fifty dollars? One hundred? There are two markets for carbon: The compliance market,…
Joy may not be the first word that springs to mind when Westerners think about electrical power, but gorudubu (“joy” in the Bariba language) describes the…
On March 2, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to invest $3.7 million to expand collaboration on the sometimes competing goals of maintaining…
Everybody cooks. Whether using World Health Organization-designated “clean fuels” – electricity, biogas, natural gas, liquified petroleum gas (LPG), solar or alcohol – or “dirty fuels,” such…
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 Immortal words – and incorrect. When the topic is diversity on public…
Off-grid living may sound like an attractive, natural experience to those who don’t have to experience it every day. The reality of life without access to…
Envision a new clean-energy technology that is abundant, safe and produces affordable, non-carbon-based electricity. This process has been studied and developed for decades. Thanks to scientists,…
When four MIT graduates pooled resources to locate prototyping lab space in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2011, they didn’t realize they were starting a business incubator; they…
It doesn’t matter where carbon dioxide originates or is sequestered. When it comes to reducing greenhouse gasses and slowing climate change, “Every molecule counts,” says Kristine…
Encouragement changes lives. Erika Symmonds, vice president of Workforce Development and Service at GRID Alternatives, knows that for a fact. GRID Alternatives, founded in 2001, is…
Imagine driving one hundred miles each way to and from your office – before loading up your crew and heading in a different direction to the…
