EcoMetro

When Washington lawmakers approved a set of incentives in 2005 for producing electricity from the solar power, they hoped to encourage residents to install solar panels and recruit businesses to build them in the Evergreen State. Four years later, we are seeing slow, but steady and growing progress....

I just returned to Seattle from the Mediterranean, where I was pursuing the conservation of some personal energy. Besides catching up on some rest, relaxation and the relics of the ancient world, I was impressed to see the extensive use of solar energy that is taking place in southern Europe and Egypt...