Earth day, April 22, comes on a Sunday this year, making a weekend paint project a perfect way to celebrate. Just painting the surface of a black roof white can lower its temperature on a hot ...

White roofs are one of those climate solutions that sound too good to be true. Compared to solar panels and electric cars, painting the roof of a building white is a suspiciously cheap, analog way to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - For David Bryan and Laura Phillips, their Spanish Town home was the one when they bought it in 2021. “We can walk downtown. We can walk to restaurants so it’s not just the ...

A new super-white color of paint is so bright you might just need shades. Developed by scientists at Indiana’s Purdue University, the new whitest white acrylic paint reflects 95.5 percent of sunlight.

Jon Parker of American Home Contractors in New Jersey says painting a roof white can cut air conditioning bills by reflecting the sun's rays. If you're waiting for the hot weather to cool down, get ...

Scientists have developed a light-reflecting “ultra-white” paint, which they say could negate the need for air conditioning and even reduce carbon emissions, if used on a mass scale. The paint, ...

Dear EarthTalk: I've heard that simply painting your roof white can reduce household electricity bills by 40 percent. Is this something any of us can do? — Susan Pierson, Sumter, SC Yes anyone can do ...