Energy and Climate Change

Through a combination of conservation, reuse and desalination, the country now has more water than it needs.

Throughout much of the U.S. and the world, we manage water and energy as if they were unrelated. In reality, they are Siamese twins.

In an effort to make rentals more sustainable, city officials in 14 college towns banded together to create a website that shows renters what they would pay in utilities.

When it comes to price, these numbers are hardly cheap, but they’re also lower than some analysts were suggesting — figures like $13,000 were common in press coverage prior to Tesla’s announcement.

While home batteries aren’t as sexy as electric luxury cars, Tesla CEO Elon Musk portrayed the Powerwall Home Battery and the business system, called the Powerpack, as helping to wean the world off oil and gas.

Former Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer observed that the Rocky Mountains are becoming North America’s "energy breadbasket."

Transmission grids are one of the biggest bottlenecks to growing the world’s share of wind and solar power.

"It’s a perverse consequence of a well-intentioned program that low-income people enrolled in budget billing programs actually spent more than they would have otherwise."

"The idea of using a renewable resource is really important for us and the more we can do, the happier we are and the happier it is for our fish," said Diane Bristol, senior director of community and employment engagement at Simms Fishing Products.

With the rise of the Internet of Things, the demands placed on our data centers may be growing, but the technology needed to handle those demands is improving as well.