SAN DIEGO — The solar eclipse is less than two weeks away. While San Diego is not in the path of totality, people can still safely view the partial eclipse with solar glasses or they can make their ...

Marin high school students who like to work with their hands got to make and take home a solar box over the weekend. The event, a maker’s workshop, was organized by the Marin nonprofit Big Skills, ...

US big-box retail and grocery stores have enough rooftop solar potential to power more than 7.9 million homes – utilizing all that unused space for clean energy is a no-brainer. UnderstandSolar is a ...

Sunlight has a couple of advantages over your traditional gas and coal. It’s cheap, it’s powerful, and there’s a lot of it. But there’s a barrier to entry — to harness solar power, you need your own ...

Tyler Gerardot is an electrical maintenance technician Sweetwater Sound. He maintains the company's 260 rooftop solar panels. Indiana is expected to add a lot of solar power in the next five years — ...

This is part of a series on distributed renewable energy posted to Grist. It originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project.

As the US attempts to wean itself off its heavy reliance on fossil fuels and shift to cleaner energy sources, many experts are eyeing a promising solution: your neighborhood big-box stores and ...

America’s big-box retail and grocery stores could fulfill half of their own electricity needs and generate enough clean electricity to power more than 7.9 million U.S. homes if they covered their ...

Use a cereal box and items around the house to make a pinhole eclipse projector. — -- If your approved solar eclipse glasses didn't come in time or stores near you are sold out, it's not too late ...