alternative energy

Food waste is an expensive problem. The average U.S. family puts upward of $2,000 worth of food in the garbage every year.What some see as a problem,…

Every day, a facility on the outskirts of Grand Junction, Colorado, takes in 8 million gallons of what people have flushed down their toilets and washed…

Colorado's booming pot industry is draining the state's electric grid. In Pueblo, one grower is looking to the sun for a solution. Using greenhouses could…

There’s a handful of machines in this corner of the massive Intertek testing facility in Cortland. They’re all designed to make sure solar energy panels…

Governor Cuomo’s state of the state address saw a significant push for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and the implementation of smart grid…

With several tax credits and incentives for the wind industry extended by Congress for at least another year, wind projects in upstate New York can move…

New York state ranks third in the world for the number of clean energy patents issued in the third quarter of 2012. The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index…

In this edition: Forget the fiscal cliff, wind energy producers are racing to finish projects before the Production Tax Credit expires tonight, and why…

The historic F.X. Matt Brewery, maker of the popular Saranac line of beers, is getting more "green" next month.It won't be making green beer on a regular…

Good Morning and welcome to the Innovation Trail Mix.As you answer the call of nature today, spare a thought for the 1.1 billion people out there who…