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5 Reasons to Be Optimistic about Sustainability in 2014

Posted by rackfokus on Friday, 27 December 2013 in Sustainable Development

This is the time of the year when you see endless summaries of 2013. The ones about sustainability can usually be characterized as a bag of mixed news, filled with both good and bad news from the past year. And it can be quite depressing, right? After all, mixed news means that at best we...

How a Power Grid Shapes Our World

Posted by malikaali on Sunday, 27 October 2013 in Energy Efficiency

Minutes before 4 p.m. on a sizzling September day two years ago, right at the time when they were most needed, San Diego's air conditioners suddenly died. Thousands of television and computer screens also flickered into darkness. Stoplights stopped working, gas stations ceased pumping, and traffic s...

IKEA Flips the Switch on a 65,000 Square Foot Solar Array in Sacramento

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 01 July 2011 in Solar

Furniture giant, IKEA, just switched on a 573-kW solar power system, which covers 65,000 square feet of space at their Sacramento, California store. The array is made up of approximately 2,548 panels and will help to cut 630 tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere. The solar array i...