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by Mike Chino

San Franciscans rejoice! The Transbay Joint Powers Authority just approved a stunning green design for the new Transbay Transit Center to be constructed in downtown SF. Planned by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the project consists of a graceful glass tower paired with an elegantly sweeping transit center topped with a five-and-a-half acre public [...]

A start-up company called Envision Solar has begun installing solar canopies in shopping center parking lots. Parking lots, which are usually barren, heat-producing landscapes, can now provide shade for customers, while generating up to a half-megawatt of electricity. Envision’s “Solar Groves” incorporate lights that turn on automatically at night, while blocking skyward light pollution.
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Sunrgi, a Hollywood-based start-up, came out of stealth mode this week claiming it can collect twice as much sunlight as other photovoltaic designs and convert it to electricity for 5 cents a kilowatt-hour, on par with fossil fuels.
The company’s core technology is concentrating solar power, which uses lenses to focus sunlight onto small strips of [...]

By Alexis Madrigal 03.18.08 | 8:45 PM

Engineers Malcolm Knapp and Heather Fleming helped design a low-cost turbine that will be deployed in the rural areas surrounding Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second largest city.
Photo courtesy Jim Merithew/Wired.com
A group of volunteer engineers are finishing the design for a home-brewed wind turbine that will bring electricity to [...]

Javier Blanco rescató cientos de cuerdas de terreno que de otra manera hubieran sucumbido al desarrollo acelerado.

Foto por Tito Guzmán
Carmen Dolores Hernández / Especial para El Nuevo Día
Como director del Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico, desde que se constituyó en el 1968 hasta hace unos años, el arquitecto Javier Blanco rescató cientos de cuerdas [...]