Our annual symposium, New Perspectives on Energy Innovation, convened in October 2023.
The archive of outdoor enthusiast and inventor Leonard Karr features kayaks, decoys, and other technologies originally developed by Indigenous Peoples...
In honor of Earth Day, the Lemelson Center celebrates inventors whose problem-solving has resulted in greener, more sustainable energy solutions.In...
There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imaginations. — Leigh Hunt...
Birds are singing, the sun is shining, flowers are blooming, the weather is warm (or even downright hot), and the pandemic continues to encourage us...
Sunil CherianSunil Cherian, the founder and CEO of Spirae, Inc. in Fort Collins, Colorado, works on smart grid technology that balances variations in...
In June, I traveled to Yerevan, Armenia as part of My Armenia, an initiative of the Smithsonian and the United States Agency for International...
On a hot summer morning, I walk into the National Zoo. Just inside the Connecticut Avenue entrance to the park I’m greeted by a giant parrotfish. I’m...
At Kansas City’s science center, Science City, guests learn about fossil fuel emissions, water conservation, and sustainable energy. While these...
Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century...
This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affects the environment (here defined broadly to include all forms of interaction...
I was saddened to read about the death last month of Paolo Soleri, the Italian-American architect who was one of the godfathers of the eco-city...
From time to time in earlier columns, I have reported on the rising global phenomenon of eco-cities, an urban innovation touted as one of the...
So many of the sustainable environmental technologies of today hold promise but are distinctly futuristic--from nanotechnology-based photovoltaics and...
In 1982, Sally Fox was working for a cotton breeder in California when she came across a bag of brown cotton seeds. The breeder was considering...
