Protesters Hold Massive Rallies Against Emissions, Climate Change
Campaigners against global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to scali...
Campaigners against global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to scali...
Molly Greenwood | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Instead of buying a new car, I bought a Vespa. And you know what? It has turned out to be the perfect complement to my alternative transportation lifestyle.
Shravya Reddy | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
For all those looking for a way to lessen their carbon footprint, the bottom-line remains that a dietary shift is the single most effective way to do so.
Johan Rockström | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
To reduce the risk of tipping into the unknown, we need a new global deal for sustainable development. Copenhagen should be viewed as a first necessary step toward this new deal.
Renée Loux | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
Several years ago, I undertook a year-long experiment to minimize my personal waste. At the time, "no impact" wasn't a common term. I just wanted to see how waste-wise efficient I could be.
The Coloradoan | David Young | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver
Growing up, Chris Ravana didn't always have the newest or nicest motorbikes. He did, however, always have the most customized bike. Advertisement At ...
New York Times | AD MOUAWAD and ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy countries reduce their oil consumption to com...
The Associated Press | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP)- President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year. "...
AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
BANGKOK — The United Nations on Monday warned world leaders they have only 70 days to reach a new deal to limit global warming, while environmen...
Wall Street Journal | JOSH MITCHELL and STEPHEN POWER | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Fi...
The Observer | John Vidal | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green
Huge dust storms, like the ones that blanketed Sydney twice last week, hit Queensland yesterday and turned the air red across much of eastern Australi...
Wall Street Journal | Keith Johnson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
So much of the wailing and gnashing of teeth around the climate bill in Congress revolves around the costs of curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. What a...
Wendy Gordon | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
Prenatal exposure to combustion byproducts lowers children's IQ, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH).
msn.com | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green
Reversing a Bush-era decision and honoring a pledge last month, the Obama administration on Tuesday granted California the ability to impose stringent...
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.
James K. Boyce and Manuel Pastor | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green
ExxonMobil just had another banner year. Despite the global economic slowdown, the oil company now tops the Fortune 500 in both profits and sales. It's also ninth in a less salubrious list -- the "Toxic 100."
Bloomberg.com | By Jonathan Stearns | Posted 03.13.2009 | World
The European Union should be prepared to quadruple loans for the car industry this year to 15 billion euros ($19 billion) because of the economic slum...
A. Siegel | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green
I was shocked at the latest parody of a set of Christmas Carols courtesy of the coal industry's mouthpiece, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: the "Clean Coal Carolers" with a set of lyrics that take their truthiness and deception to a whole new level of depravity.
Paige Donner | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business
What's interesting about the governor's climate conference is that you normally would think that international negotiations or solutions are all about Heads of State talking to each another.
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Most candles are made from paraffin wax, which is derived from crude oil. Demand for these products plays into our reliance on fossil fuels.
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
It's all about how far your wine has been shipped, and the materials used to package it. Aluminum screw-tops are more likely to be recycled than natural corks, and they prevent wines from going bad.
Angela Kelley | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
According to an anti-immigrant group's new junk-science report, immigrants would ultimately produce less CO2 if they just remained in their "less-consuming, less-industrialized, and less CO2 emitting" home countries.
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business
DENVER — High gas prices almost killed the lifeline to the city for a group of mountain commuters. Park County bus riders recently had to plead...
AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Five states intend to sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it does not act soon to reduce pollution from ships, aircr...
Xinhua | Posted 08.02.2008 | Green
An official at the capital's environmental regulator has shrugged off the notion of wearing masks in Beijing for fear of poor air quality, saying mask...
New York Times | ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green