Most "green job" training programs aim to teach low-income workers the job skills necessary to join the nascent clean-tech economy: energy-efficiency ...
James Hoggan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Jack Bonner and his 'Associates' are Astroturf specialists, working for the agendas of major corporate clients, who pay his firm large sums of money to manufacture 'citizen outrage'.
Fast Company | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green
Toyota is upping the green stakes with a strange, yet ingenious initiative--the company has developed two new flower species that offset CO2 emissions...
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green
Even if geoengineering works magnificently to cool down the Earth (and right now, that's definitely an "if"), it won't meet growing energy demand from countries like India and China.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment
"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.
Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green
These plants may look like sweet, innocent flowers, but don't be fooled -- they are meat-eating killers! Carnivorous plants are those that don't just ...
Howard Learner | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
Everyone is in search of which clean energy option will be the US's savior from fossil fuels. While wind looks promising, a perfect storm of opportunities might make solar the best game in town.
Louise McCready | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green
While Food, Inc. uncovered the horrors of the industrial food system, Food Beware links pesticides and herbicides with cancer and other health problems.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
Next time you hear a coal executive or one of his lobbyists tell you that coal is cheap and solar remains too expensive, remember that renewables have been forced to compete on an unfair playing field.
Jeff Goldstein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
For all those that do not want to pay homage to CO2, I say -- stop eating. Or at least stop throwing around the expression "trace gas" so loosely.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
Those of us who do own a Prius, like Larry David, may now have to yield our hipness credentials to the latest trend, which is owning no car at all.
BBC NEWS | Matt McGrath | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
The prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future....
New York Times | ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green
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...
Leah Lamb | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
350 parts per million is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide. It's the number humanity needs to get back to as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change.
Starre Vartan | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
From 125+ entries into the Project Green Search Model Competition, a top 10 have been picked to go to Los Angeles for the November 6th crowning of the...
Jerry Cope | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Now is the time for the citizens to speak out and demand that leaders from every country agree on a fair and just global climate agreement.
Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
This week's post was co-written by Mary Anne Hitt, deputy director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign"My hope is this superb documentary will sho...
Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.
Paul Brown | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Two Christian religious leaders combined yesterday to warn that time was running out for the life of the planet.
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Tomorrow, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority can and should pass the Long Range Transportation Plan, paving the way for $300 billion in investment over the next 30 years.
Taryn Kiekow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
Although the foreign mining partnership claims that it will "respect all of Alaska's natural resources," the stakes are too great to roll the dice.
James Hoggan | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
A diminished role for the U.S. Chamber would brighten the prospects of passing climate and energy policy in the United States and abroad.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
The media needs to get over the superficial, celebrity-soaked fad approach to environmental journalism and deliver something that people want: more and better in-depth environmental news.
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
Now that even the most staunch critics have conceded that the US needs to reduce emissions, it's time to stop sitting on our hands and commit to weaning off fossil fuels.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.
nytimes.com | Liz Galst | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green