The story of health care reform is about legislators, lobbyists, taxpayers, and shareholders.

But it is also about Kathleen Kelly.

Born in upstate New York, Kelly is a wife and a mother, married to a Canadian and living just outside Vancouver, B.C. where she co-owns a consulting company that works...

TOBA INLET, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- When it comes to renewable-energy generation, location is everything. The southwest is a shoe-in for solar. Texas offers wicked wind. And this corner of the continent boasts steep, roaring glacier-fed rivers, and a growing group of companies harnessing them to generate carbon-free electricity.

The technology...

If you believe the soothsayers at The Department of Energy, by about 2020 or so, America's transportation sector will reach a dubious milestone. At that point it will be kicking out around two billion metric tonnes of heat-trapping carbon dioxide per year.

Or not. There is another option, and President...

Do you know how much carbon that quick Google search just kicked up? Or the atmospheric price of that orange juice?

Me neither. In fact -- even though I theoretically stay on top of this stuff for a living -- I don't care.

Evidently I'm an odd man out,...

Plug-in hybrids, windmills, and clothes lines? Dude, that stuff is for chicks, right?

All glibness aside, a new survey of what Americans believe about the climate crisis -- and why -- reveals that a majority of those surveyed consider the issue to be more soft and feminine than strong and...

Could a scrappy web site have a shot at squeezing America's leading and most reliable supply of petroleum?

It's a long shot, but its organizers sure hope so. As Canadians go to the polls Tuesday to choose a new federal government, hundreds of thousands of green-leaning voters are logging on...

When Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani belittled the work of the nation's community organizers, they dissed the often-thankless efforts of change agents working to solve the pressing challenges of America's inner cities.

But along the way they also pshawed a still-largely-invisible army of regular people like you and me who...

I once worked with an art director who had a unique approach to dealing with the tricky conflicts and bitter power struggles that festered away in his department. When I asked him how things were going, he'd flash me a thumbs-up, paste on a grin, and say, "Hey, it's all...