The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has launched the Renewable Energy Learning Partnership (IRELP) to provide an online platform for renewable energy education and training.

Amazing composites of photographs taken from space of cities from around the world created for CNN by NASA and the U.S. Geological survey.

What’s missing from renewable energy technologies? The answer is practically a cliche: how to inexpensively store access energy for when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining. A recent TED Talk describes an interesting energy storage possibility.

Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), UN-Habitat, and the European Commission (EC) have begun a project entitled Promoting Low Emission Urban Development Strategies in Emerging Economy Countries. This project will help cities to lower their carbon emissions and will run from March 1st, 2012 to August 31st, 2015.