When JR Howard considered selling his small flock of 27 sheep, he was struggling to make…
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First private player gets licence to distribute power in Gurgaon, Nuh | Gurgaon News
More than 8.3 lakh consumers across the two districts, including households, farms, shops, industrial units and…
Scientists discover ‘hidden materials’ that may lead to better batteries and solar fuels
An international research team has uncovered a class of previously unknown “hidden materials” by tracking the…
A 21-year-old Mexican environmental innovator is developing microbial fuel cells that use discarded materials to generate electricity and improve polluted water; her project aims to produce 50 working units by 2027
Maritza Sanchez Photo credit: https://www.broweryouthawards.org/winner/maritza-sanchez/ Growing up in Cuautlancingo, a town in Mexico’s Puebla state, Maritza…
A Massachusetts dairy farmer nearly sold an unfarmable slice of his land to Walmart, but put an 11-acre solar field there instead; the lease paid $1,000 a week while rooftop panels erased a $1,400 monthly power bill
A Massachusetts dairy farmer once considered selling an awkward, hard-to-farm patch of his property to Walmart.…
In 2013, a New Jersey teacher saw workers mowing a solar field near home and asked to bring in her sheep; by 2021, her flock had grown from 50 sheep on 15 solar acres to 450 sheep managing 85 acres
Bishop’s journey into solar grazing began at her six-acre farm in Newfield, New Jersey. With limited…
In 2018, a Vermont couple started with 30 sheep; seven years later, their solar-grazing business had 500 sheep managing vegetation across 1,500 acres of solar sites in the Northeast
What started in 2018 as a small trial with just 30 sheep has grown into a…
In 2024, 75-year-old Iowa farmer Evie Haupt said three wind turbines on her 160 acres were bringing in about $35,000 a year while using under 3 acres and had helped reduce $350,000 in farm debt to $67,000
On a 160-acre farm in central Iowa, three tall wind turbines quietly rise above the fields.…
Offshore wind farms may be quietly stealing rain from Europe’s coasts; study says: The more energy turbines pull from the wind, the less…
Europe is counting on offshore wind to move away from fossil fuels, and the North Sea…
In 2011, a Massachusetts dairy installed the state’s first agricultural digester; by 2020, manure and food waste were saving it $155,000 a year on heat, fertiliser, and bedding
For generations, cow manure was simply an unavoidable byproduct of running a dairy farm. At Jordan…