Author Archives: Zachary Shahan


About Zachary Shahan

I'm the director of CleanTechnica, the most popular clean energy website in the world, and Planetsave, a leading green and science news site. I've been covering green news of various sorts since 2008, and I've been especially focused on solar energy, electric vehicles, bicycling, and wind energy for the past few years. You can also find my work on Scientific American, Reuters, Think Progress, GE's ecomagination site, several sites in the Important Media network, & many other places. To connect on some of your favorite social networks, go to zacharyshahan.com or click on some of the links below.

Case For Vegetarianism Made By Young Boy (Video)… And Food Journalist (Video)

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Case For Vegetarianism Made By Young Boy (Video)… And Food Journalist (Video)

Someone shared this video with me awhile back. Thanks to it being a catchup Sunday, I just got around to watching it. It makes the case for vegetarianism using the heart in an excellent way. Check it out: If you’d like a more sophisticated, intellectual case for going veggie, watch this one below from meat-eating food journalist Mark Bittman. Just one note I’ll add (also added at that link above): research has found that 51% … Read More

Father’s Day Petition To President Obama

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Image Credit: Obama & daughter via spirit of america / Shutterstock.com

One of our great writers, Don Lieber, has created a petition on MoveOn.org targeted at Obama that I thought was worth quickly passing along. It’s a Father’s Day petition pushing Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Here’s the petition statement: Dear President Obama, Father’s Day represents a celebration of our cherished obligation to protect our children, and to help prepare them for happy, healthy and fulfilling lives into the future. We, the … Read More

Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 5 (#41–50)

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We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. Learning from the Top 33 EV Stories article I recently published, I’m splitting this one into 5 posts. Otherwise, the page would take forever to load. Plus, it’s easier to swallow 10 at a time. It’s pretty hard to actually rank these top 50 articles, so … Read More

Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 4 (#31–40)

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homeroofs

We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. Learning from the Top 33 EV Stories article I recently published, I’m splitting this one into 5 posts. Otherwise, the page would take forever to load. Plus, it’s easier to swallow 10 at a time. It’s pretty hard to actually rank these top 50 articles, so … Read More

Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 3 (#21–30)

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We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. Learning from the Top 33 EV Stories article I recently published, I’m splitting this one into 5 posts. Otherwise, the page would take forever to load. Plus, it’s easier to swallow 10 at a time. It’s pretty hard to actually rank these top 50 articles, so … Read More

Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 2 (#2–21)

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We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. Learning from the Top 33 EV Stories article I recently published, I’m splitting this one into 5 posts. Otherwise, the page would take forever to load. Plus, it’s easier to swallow 10 at a time. It’s pretty hard to actually rank these top 50 articles, so … Read More

Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 1 (#1–10)

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mauritinia-solar-power-plant-largest-in-africa

We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. Learning from the Top 33 EV Stories article I recently published, I’m splitting this one into 5 posts. Otherwise, the page would take forever to load. Plus, it’s easier to swallow 10 at a time. It’s pretty hard to actually rank these top … Read More

Planetsave Hacked, But We’re Back

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You may have noticed some weirdness on Planetsave the past couple days — that is, no new articles. The story is, we were hacked. Since Monday morning/afternoon, our team hasn’t been able to log in to the backend (where we write and publish articles). We haven’t even been able to access the login pages. Actually, this happened across our network (Important Media) and on other multi-site WordPress installs across the interwebs. The issue seems to be resolved. … Read More

Top 33 Electric Vehicle Stories Of 2013 (So Far)

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We’re trying to get more electric vehicle (EV) stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, below are 33 of the top EV stories of 2013 so far. To keep an eye on upcoming (or older) EV stories, bookmark and scroll through our EV category from time to time. It’s pretty hard to actually rank these top 33 articles, so I didn’t even try. The list is in no particular order. The numbers are basically just … Read More