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Portugal Preparing Several Billion-dollar Clean Energy Projects for Post-Coronavirus Future

05/08/2020

Spared from the ravages of COVID-19 suffered by her neighbor Spain, Portugal is aiming to leap, rather than tip-toe, out of their lockdown initiatives by launching a series of [...]

Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimated to Fall by 8% in 2020—the Largest Recorded Drop in History

05/01/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic represents the biggest shock to the global economy in more than seven decades, but new research says that the outbreaks are likely to result in a [...]

Record-Breaking Amounts of Solar Electricity Generated in Germany After String of Sunny Days

04/25/2020

Good News Network recently explained how traditional consumer-driven supply and demand market forces are pushing coal further and further to the edge of the bed (and economic [...]

Exciting New Data Says Renewables Accounted for Almost Three Quarters of New Energy Capacity in 2019

04/14/2020

In an exciting reported victory for sustainability, new renewable power accounted for a whopping 72% of all global power expansion in 2019. According to new data released last [...]

These New Solar-Pavement Driveways Made of Plastic Bottles Can Power the Average Household

04/09/2020

Photo by Platio Solar Solar panel driveways may soon be powering all our households with clean electricity thanks to this Budapest-based startup. For the last five years, Platio [...]

Free Market Forces Will Obliterate Global Coal Reliance Within 10 Years, Says Study

04/03/2020

Contrary to the image of greedy fossil fuel billionaires lobbying politicians for favors, it is now the free market, not world governments, that are doing the most to advance the [...]

Amsterdam is Enjoying Quieter Canals as Boats Go Electric Years Ahead of Diesel Ban

03/09/2020

The buzz and rumble of boats passing through Amsterdam’s famous canal system is one of the most iconic traits of the Dutch city. However, a newly-elected Green Party mayor is [...]

Scorched Australia is Getting Power Back Thanks to New Solar Grids Funded by Philanthropist Couple

02/25/2020

Since the bushfires and flooding across southern Australia have left dozens of communities without power, several tech companies have begun installing solar panels and electrical [...]

Apple and Pear Cores Turned Into Chemical-Free Sweetener as an Alternative to Artificial Sweeteners and Sugar

02/16/2020

A Dutch company aptly-called Fooditive, is turning pear and apple cores, as well as bruised and discarded fruit from producers and suppliers into a chemical-free, calorie-free, [...]

Revolutionary New Recycling Method for Plastic and Waste is Killing Two Birds With One Stone

02/08/2020

Carbon capturing and carbon sequestering, meaning the uptake and storage of CO2 molecules in a solid object, like a building or a tree which it can’t escape from, is one of the [...]

Denmark Researchers Use Seaweed to Power a Car

01/13/2020

Each year, 25 million tons of seaweed is harvested, most of which is in Asia and used for human consumption and cosmetics. But what about using it to power our vehicles? Danish [...]

Wind Farms in Africa Aim To Power New Era of Clean Reliable Energy While Saving a Billion Tons of CO2

01/12/2020

Senegal is preparing to take a large step in the emerging market of African renewable energy with the construction of the 340 million euro Taliba N’diaye Wind Farm. Almost all [...]

Impelled by Reactor Meltdown, Fukushima Japan Vows to Achieve 100% Renewable Energy Use in 20 Years

01/11/2020

Nine years ago, an earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan caused one of the most significant nuclear disasters in human history in the area around the Fukushima Daiichi [...]

Oil-Dependent Canadian Province Launching New Solar Farm Next Year—One of the Largest in the World

01/03/2020

Canada will soon be welcoming the largest operating solar energy project in the country—and it is also being hailed as “one of the largest in the world”. Back in August, [...]