Plan to Make Renewables Cheaper Than Coal Within 10 Years

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Sep 4, 2014 Plans for an international effort to make solar power cheaper than coal within 10 years are to be unveiled at the U.N. secretary-general's climate summit in New York this month. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Thousands of Birds Meet a Fiery End at the World’s Largest Solar Power Plant

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Aug 27, 2014 Solar power also comes at a price, and in the case of California's BrightSource Energy plant, the cost may be the lives of 28,000 wild creatures. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rooftop Solar Power in Australia Forced Fossil Fuel Plants to Give Away Free Electricity

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jul 10, 2014 Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

New Discovery Promises a Future of Cheap, Ubiquitous Solar Power

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jun 12, 2014 Every year, the Sun bathes the Earth in about 10,000 times the total energy used by all humans. Pity we don't take better advantage. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Swapping Coal for Panels

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Jun 8, 2014 Dig deeper

Solar Power for the Global Masses: The Next Revolution

Juan Cole / Truthdig May 31, 2014 As the price of solar panels drops, they increasingly are being spontaneously bought and installed by villagers throughout the world, who are often ill-served, or not served at all, by the central power grid in their countries. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Round-the-Clock Solar Power Is Here

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network May 1, 2014 Solar power has suffered from one serious drawback: there are times when there is no sunshine to provide it. Now that is changing. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Facebook Solar Drones Aim to Transmit Internet to Just About Everywhere

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Apr 2, 2014 Facebook's planned drone program competes with Google's Project Loon for global dominance in the race to make the Internet available to all earthlings. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

5 Signs Solar Power Is Taking Over the World

Juan Cole / Truthdig Mar 22, 2014 Burning fossil fuels (coal, natural gas and oil) is putting 32 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually into the atmosphere. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

More Solar Workers in U.S. Than Coal Miners, and Solar Doesn’t Poison Drinking Water

Juan Cole / Truthdig Feb 18, 2014 By the end of 2013, the number of workers in the solar energy industry in the U.S. had grown to 143,000. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Making Solar Power While the Sun Shines

BLANK Oct 22, 2013 New solar power installations are surging, but a tax rebate that has helped propel them will decrease in 2016. That raises a related question: Why isn't solar power required in all new building construction? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Summer 2013

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Aug 31, 2013 Dig deeper