Alternative Energy Sources

Recycling and Reusable Grocery Bags Won't Solve the Climate Crisis: We Must Do More

Ed Haemmerle | Posted 12.09.2009 | Green


Ed Haemmerle

Recycling and reusable grocery bags should be a part of everyones routine. However, if you pride yourself in thinking you have made a difference I must sadly report that you have not.

Nuclear Power's Second Act?

Michael Rose | Posted 12.07.2009 | Technology


Michael Rose

Let's hope the delegates heading to Copenhagen to create a new energy future remember the problems of the past.

The Midwest Is Going Off The Grid ... One Turbine At A Time

Jeff Bocan | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business


Jeff Bocan

My infatuation with wind power was titillated in the unlikeliest of places: the background of a Monday Night football game where a tall wind turbine spun gently beyond the stadium's walls.

Big Oil Goes Green

newsweek.com | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green


It's not just that these projects involve bigger money, which will grow exponentially if new technologies work. That's still peanuts for oil majors, w...

11 Strange Clean Energy Sources: Watermelon, Dead Turkeys, Urine And More!

EarthFirst | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green


Why stick with boring old oil when you could be powering your home, car and gadgets with slaughterhouse waste, garbage and onions? As strange as trans...

Wind Farms Can Appear Sinister To The Weatherman

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green


SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Wind farms have been blamed for disrupting the lives of birds, bats and, most recently, the land-bound sage grouse. Now the...

British PM Calls For $100 Billion Global Green Fund

AFP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday called for a global fund worth $100 billion a year to tackle climate change in the developing world, ahead ...

Stimulus Money Goes To Nissan, Ford, Tesla

ecogeek.org | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


Both the big auto giants and the lightweight electric startups applied for as much of said money as possible, and the Department of Energy is moments ...

Fuel-Cell Toyota By 2015

AFP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


Toyota Motor, the world's top automaker, plans to roll out a fuel-cell car by 2015 in its push to stay ahead in the global race for green autos, vice ...

A Sustainable New Orleans Rises After Katrina

nytimes.com | KATIE HOWELL of Greenwire | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


There is a big push in the Big Easy for dramatically improving energy efficiency in homes and public buildings....

Solar Land Rush

nytimes.com | Todd Woody | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green


The Department of the Interior's move last month to accelerate development of large-scale solar power plants on federal land in six Western states cou...

GE Plans Tools To Reduce Household Energy Costs

BusinessWeek | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


General Electric Co. said Tuesday that it is developing a package of energy saving and generating tools that could help homeowners achieve zero cost o...

The Seven Great Challenges of Sustainability

Tri Robinson | Posted 03.06.2009 | Green


Tri Robinson

I had always thought of the Amish as being a people who weren't troubled with the cares of the outside world, especially those that were living as sustainability as this family clearly was.

Fuel Cell Stickers for Charging Gadgets

Treehugger | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green


Slap a sticker on your cell phone and consider it charged. Well, that's the goal of myFC, anyway. The Swedish-based company is working to make charg...

America's First Human-Powered Gym

Gimundo.com | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green


It's easy to burn off a few calories when you go to the gym - but you're also using plenty of power in the process. With all the treadmills, exercise ...

Indian Temples Go Green

Time | MADHUR SINGH | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green


The Tirumala temple, in the south Indian city of Tirupathi, is one of Hinduism's holiest shrines. Over 5,000 pilgrims a day visit this city of seven h...