SmartPower has announced the winner of our $10,000 Energy Smart Ad Challenge, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. We called out to filmmakers around the country, challenging them to create what they think is the best 30-second video ad that compels young people to save energy.

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It's fair to say that environmentalists have just about always considered America's utility companies the bad guys. While utilities create and deliver the energy we rely on everyday to power our homes and our lifestyles, they also typically fight most environmental regulations and clean energy expansion.

However, these days...

Not to get too personal, but I haven't exactly been counting calories this summer.

So I decided to dust off my online South Beach Diet account. I enter in the website that I want to lose 20 pounds this winter, and it tells me how to craft my diet to...

Hot from the successful passage of the historic climate legislation, the Obama administration has kept at its plug and chug motif, working hard to revise the initial house legislation to bring America back into the climate change race. And while the speed and intensity from the congressional factory is both...

Recently, New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman offered readers of Newsweek a surprisingly peculiar suggestion about how Americans should fight climate change. "My motto is change your leaders, not your light bulbs," said Friedman. Really? Is one of the most recognized thought leaders on energy and the environment actually...

When Obama Girl is behind your cause, you know you're on to something.

In partnership with ClimateCulture.com, SmartPower is proud to officially roll out the America's Greenest Campus contest. Here's how it...

There's certainly been much talk about colleges going green in recent years. In today's world, schools know they need to be committed to environmental sustainability in order to attract the best students and fulfill their mission to improve the world. Now there is a way for ordinary students, faculty and...

On Tuesday, the US Senate began confirmation hearings on Secretary of Energy Designate Steven Chu. And to be sure, the nomination of Chu -- like almost all of the Obama appointments -- represents a striking and hopeful departure from the approach we've seen under President Bush.

There's real opportunity for...

Despite Friday's piece in the Times, there seems to be a growing consensus around Washington that the road to our nation's economic salvation will be laid in large part by a comprehensive, long term domestic energy initiative.

For starters, President-elect Obama has called for the doubling of our...

This election may have been the most exciting one in our lifetimes, especially for those engaged in the energy debate. Energy policy was one of the most important issues of the presidential campaign, and the fact that the election is over does not mean the campaign to get our nation...

Those of us who work to spread the message of clean energy and energy efficiency need to learn from Barack Obama's presidential campaign and its unprecedented success at mobilizing young Americans.

Sure, the clean energy and efficiency industries may lack the hundreds of millions of dollars in donations...

The New York Times published a feature piece earlier this month on Ainsworth, Nebraska, a town that has been generating clean energy from a state of the art wind farm for the past two years. According to the article, the 36 windmills at the facility have now added...

Much has been said and written about environmental and pollution concerns in Beijing and across China in advance of the Olympics this month. To be sure, there is room for improvement in the air quality in Beijing, but before attacking China, take a moment to consider the U.S. and China's...

Going green is all the rage these days--we see it practically everywhere. I recently received a flyer in the mail offering me a lawn service that uses "100% renewable energy" to mow my lawn. I was skeptical of the claim, but upon further inspection, it seems true -- the company's...

The U.S. Senate is currently stalled on approving renewals for clean energy production tax credits. These tax incentives have promoted investment in the clean and renewable energy industry for the last fifteen years. In years that the credits have been in place, the clean energy industry has grown at an...

Writing about the environment on the Huffington Post may not be much of a surprise to its avid readers. Progressives everywhere are worried about America's alarming and disproportionate dependence on fossil-fuels and their effect on our ecological well-being and national security.

The problem for progressives is strategic. Americans...