Tuesday night, President Obama spoke about the economy, education, immigration, and how we need to improve. The United States is lagging behind other countries in several important areas. While these are all important there is one issue he spoke about for a few minutes that I'm going to focus on....

Generally when people talk about needing to slow down and stop climate change they point to the world's most egregious emission offenders. While countries like the United States and China have the ability to make the largest impact on emission reduction, every country must do its part. Africa...

We all know energy reform bills are dead in Congress. Another thing we know is that in order to push a bill through Congress, it has to pander to what is important to the Congress people, so that they can go back home with a bill to tout for re-election....

According to the Global Footprint Network I am responsible for about 27.5 tons of co2 per year which is higher than average Americans 19.78 tons, which is higher than the average world citizen's emissions. I am energy...

The UN Climate Change Conference is almost through its twelve day session in Copenhagen. The UNFCCC brought representatives from countries all over the world together to try and agree on how the world community is going to face climate change. Solutions, debate, and international talks are...

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) just sent out an email that had an article from The Wall Street Journal promoting about what has been comically dubbed as “Climategate.”    “Climategate” should be filed under the same category as Birthers and the Tea Partiers: Trash. 

I am going to...

Climate change is real.  If we do not get our act together soon there will be serious consequences.  In order to avoid what some scientists call an apocalyptic scenario by century’s end, we must stop increasing global carbon emissions by 2015 and cut carbon emissions by 25-40 percent to...

Health care reform seems to be the issue du jour.  Everyone’s talking about it, whether for or against any particular bill.  It is hard to ignore something when it has an initial price tag of over a trillion dollars.  However, health care isn't the only issue that needs attention.  There’s...

Not only do solar panels help reduce carbon emissions they can look pretty too. Dan Nosowitz of Gizmodo posted about a Solar installation in Austin, Texas. The installation consists of sunflower shaped solar collectors along a walking and biking path.

The collectors will provide shade as they collect...

While I was not around to remember the boom and bust of the alternative energy sector in the 1970's and 80's, I think even a superficial understanding of that era explains why that isn't what we're facing today. Joshua Green of The Atlantic illustrates some of these differences in his...

In 2004 North Americans generate the equivalent of 20 tons of CO2 each. Activities such as electricity generation to industrial production, driving to work and powering your refrigerator all contribute to this number. While much of this is an inevitable consequence of modern living, a large portion is...