Edward Humes

The idea of greener Wal-Mart would have been inconceivable a few years ago -- laughable, even. Yet now the likes of Jeffrey Hollender, cofounder of the green home products company Seventh Generation, for years a vocal Wal-Mart critic, says, "Wal-Mart has become a legitimate sustainability leader... Wal-Mart's enormous size and...

A simple truth about climate change: We have the technology, legal framework and economic incentive to act now to alter our wasteful, global-warming ways. In transportation, energy, land use and sprawl - all the pieces are there, right now, except the will to act decisively.

In the next 11 days,...

The Sunday Times of London publishes its first ever Green Rich List today, featuring the 100 wealthiest tycoons in the world with major investments in green technology, conservation, and environmental causes of all stripes.

The usual suspects are on the list - Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Ted Turner,...

As Congress dickers over a landmark green stimulus bill, with vital energy, environmental and climate provisions placed on the chopping block, it's worth recalling the last time an American president tried to spend big to go green - and had the country poised to save the planet before the plug...

Outgoing Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has just finalized last-minute regulations gutting the endangered species act, a move opposed by the public, Congress, and President-elect Obama, but a favorite cause of the oil, coal and mining industries, as well as the free-market, anti-regulatory ideologues who brought us our current recession.

Congress is understandably skeptical about the Big Three's plea for a multi-billion-dollar bailout of their failing auto businesses. These are, after all, the same carmakers who LOVED the Hummer and smirked at the Prius as the height of folly, and who lobbied hard to make sure Congress provided many years...

Two highly suspect yet seemingly unkillable narratives continue to swirl through the presidential election largely unchallenged: The supposedly undeniable success of "The Surge" in Iraq as touted by Senator John McCain, and the related matter of McCain's reputation as a proven military leader who, in his running mate Sarah Palin's...

Imagine you picked up the newspaper one morning and read that the supposedly unbeatable investment fund safeguarding your retirement savings was a pyramid scheme, that the fund managers' preening assurances of low risk were lies, that their investment strategies were colossally flawed, and that your money was gone with...

While our political press obsesses on Fred's trophy wife, John's haircut and Hillary's cleavage, a far more revealing political milestone has passed with barely a ripple: the moment when ten Republican candidates for president, during the first in their endless series of sort-of debates, were asked if they believed in...

In the wake of Charles Darwin's 198th birthday last week, it's worth noting that, even after so many years, as many as two-thirds of Americans doubt or reject outright his "dangerous idea" - the theory of evolution - notwithstanding its embrace by an overwhelming majority of scientists.

If you're wondering...

If you visited the official, taxpayer-financed website of the US House Veterans Affairs Committee recently, you would have found a remarkable headline at the very top of the page: "Pelosi Majority would abandon system that provided strong veterans budgets, premier health care and effective oversight."

A diatribe from committee chairman...

When Ronald Reagan convinced the nation that the nine most dangerous words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help, the Gipper knew better, even if his audience didn't. Reagan was a member of the WW II generation and half his colleagues in Hollywood,...