Over the last 24 hours the social media world was abuzz with ending fossil subsidies as a core part of efforts to address global warming.
Why Bike Power? There are huge physical and fiscal benefits to biking. With obesity on the rise in U.S. children and one out of every three American adults weighing in obese, biking is one way to get America moving again.
22 high level representatives have just released Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, setting out recommendations to "put sustainable development into practice and... economic policy as quickly as possible."
We will not escape in this lifetime the effects of such a tragedy. We need much better regulation of the oil and gas industry and stronger enforcement standards if we are to drill in the first place.
China invested $54.4 billion on clean energy in 2010, $20 billion more than the U.S., according to the latest report from Pew Charitable Trusts and Bl...
President Obama could leave his trip through Latin America with tangible progress on actions to address global warming. There are some real actions in Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador that could help.
The world’s leaders will be meeting June 4-6, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Rio+20 Earth Summit. This Summit is an important...
President Obama's Fiscal Year 2012 budget plans to invest in global efforts to reduce carbon pollution, tap into the demand for clean energy, and make countries more resilient to global warming.
U.S. funding for adaptation helps to reduce this risk by making countries less vulnerable to the impacts of global warming.
Other countries are already seeing the benefits of making smart investments in the clean energy future. So as President Obama hinted, the U.S. better get in the game.
Few Americans are aware that the BP disaster still threatens to snuff-out century-old family traditions and a beautiful way of life along the Gulf Coast.
The signals today on clean energy coming from China and the US are pointing in completely opposite directions -- one country on hold and the other moving forward. Sad but true.
The race for the clean energy future comes to Washington, DC today -- only symbolically if the US doesn't seize the moment.
As I sat in a boat in the Gulf, surrounded on all sides by oil-tainted seas, the shear scale of the underwater oil leak hit me. At first I was heartbroken, but then I got mad. How could we have allowed this to happen?
It's time for a little reality check for those who claim to be speaking on behalf on small business in thwarting needed Congressional action on clean energy and climate change.
Sometimes I think America is the proverbial child-star-gone-bad of nations: we have a crippling addiction, but we still won't go to rehab. We are ho...
As the Gulf Coast oil disaster shows, America has a failed national energy policy. We need a new clean energy policy to break our addiction to oil, en...
In the quest for 60 votes for climate and energy legislation, one essential group is a manufacturing caucus of about a dozen Senators, led by Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) unveiled today the long-awaited draft of their American Power Act. The launch of their bill ...
There are lots of good reasons to pass the climate bill, like reducing global warming and boosting the economy. But a lesser known reason is that it will also bolster our nation's security.
Let's all remember that America is a nation built on the foundation of freedom, independence and self-sufficiency -- and those values must be at the heart of our strategy for energy policy.
America can benefit greatly from significant energy investments in clean energy-if we are smart.
Sure, the oil industry talks a good game about how we need "all of the above" but Exxon Mobil makes its record profits by selling one of the above: oil from Saudi Arabia.
Today a new president and a new congress face an economy in crisis, a planet in peril, and an outdated energy infrastructure that cannot meet the demand for the future.
