by Katie Banks | Sep 30, 2011 | Education, Environment
The U.S. Dept. of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011: Parsons the New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology’s team built the cheapest house in this year’s decathlon. Spending $229,890 on its high-efficiency, solar-powered home, the team tied with Purdue...
by Katie Banks | Sep 29, 2011 | Education, Environment, Topics
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges collegiate teams to design affordable, solar-powered houses. Medill’s Katie Banks visited the temporary exhibit in Washington’s West Potomac Park to learn how these student architects are...
by Katie Banks | Sep 27, 2011 | Environment, Science + Technology
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges collegiate teams to design affordable, solar-powered houses. Medill’s Katie Banks visited the temporary exhibit in Washington’s West Potomac Park to learn how these...
by Jamie Coughlin | Sep 27, 2011 | Environment, Politics
If you look up in Washington on Wednesday, you might think you’re seeing Spiderman. But, no, it’s likely a team of engineers getting set to rappel down the 123-year old Washington Monument to check for cracks in the structure. The monument was damaged last month...
by Randy Leonard | Sep 26, 2011 | Business & Tech, Environment
WASHINGTON — California is shooting for a third of its energy to be produced by renewable resources by 2020, but renewable technologies like wind, solar and electric vehicles present a series of complex challenges to power and distribution companies, the smart...
by Ramsen Shamon & Mary Cirincione | Sep 19, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Chemical Safety Board will release a study in September with recommendations to combat a little-known frightening trend among young people during the last three decades: teens and young adults being killed or injured in explosions at...
