"Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a drop of electricity could light up a mouse...."

I am spending my holiday with my family and friends in the mountains of Idaho in our log cabin, and after a lovely Christmas Eve pizza party, when we arrived...

Our country is making a huge mistake in the way we are dealing with global warming. Instead of following the old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," we are doing the opposite: committing massive dollars for mitigation strategies while at the same time refusing to...

The Copenhagen Accord is weak and will not pressure countries to do more on climate change. There were too many competing national interests and not enough leadership to push for a real deal. Obama came too late and had too little to offer; China never conceded its bottom line, which...

Last week, I addressed a "green" conference on economic sustainability in Mumbai, India. The talk, other than the argument about whether we could survive in a room without air conditioning, was mostly about how much shucking and jiving the U.S. had done in Copenhagen, all in an effort not to...

MIAMI--Drought, that killer of crops, destroyer of rivers and lakes, may turn out to have its good points - particularly in the Florida Everglades.

One result of severe dry spells in the Everglades, scientists say, is an abundance of food for beautiful wading birds...

Serious about energy conservation? Consider hibernation; curling up into a ball and snoozing away the winter while surviving on surplus fat might just be the way to go. You'd wake up next Spring feeling lighter and brighter, rested and ready for the new decade.

Then again, if the next ten...

"Bicycle Christmas lights - drivetrain" (SF Bay Area), by Richard Masoner (creative commons)

How should we interpret last week's climate conference? Nearly everyone agrees that the "Copenhagen Accord" falls far short of what we need. Carbon prices have dropped since Friday, reflecting the sentiment that the result was worse than people's expectations. Most blame either Obama or

Tonight four of my friends sit in a Danish jail, in isolation, detained without trial over Christmas and New Year. I've had friends in jail before, but never under circumstances quite as ludicrous as these. On Thursday December 19, Juan Lopez de Uralde, Nora Christiansen and Christian Schmutz's three-vehicle convoy...

The Copenhagen climate deal that President Obama hammered out Friday night with the leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa broke through years of negotiating gridlock to achieve three critical goals.  First, it provides for real cuts in heat-trapping carbon pollution by all of the world’s big emitters. ...

"Christianity isn't moving people's lives today. What's moving people's lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It's a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn't even an ideal that anybody's fighting for." --the late Joseph Campbell

It's a strange...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your iPod has a carbon footprint.

With the holidays upon use, consumerism is alive and well. It makes me think about all the gifts I've purchased for loved ones and their greenhouse gas emissions.

It's difficult to pinpoint what went wrong in Copenhagen. It was, of course, the politics - the U.S. and China petrified about giving away economic superiority to the other; developing nations crying foul at the developed nations' pledges for more money - remembering the same empty words that came after...

If the goal is environmental activism, we can rally around far more unifying and less controversial topics than climate change.

As my mother always says, "all you have to do is put your head next to a tail pipe of a car and breathe in and you know it's...

Silicon Valley -- Newly minted rock star of green business, Kevin Surace shares his motivations and future vision for Serious Materials in an exclusive Fresh Dialogues interview. The CEO of Serious Materials was just picked as Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. Magazine and...

Many are reporting that the Chinese represented the most serious stumbling block inhibiting meaningful progress in Copenhagen.

Should we conclude that China's at fault for the world's failures to move forward?

Are the Chinese against action on climate change?

Is the Chinese leadership simply a roadblock to progress?

These are...

U.S. leaders are returning from Copenhagen with fresh global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They're also heading home for the holidays preparing for an election year when jobs and the economy will be issue #1 at kitchen tables across America.

As our nation looks to establish its bona fides...