What if we reimagined the potential of the land around our railroad tracks or federal highways, already secure as public rightsāofāway, as host to renewable power systems?
We could go on disproportionately subsidizing fossil fuels that harm our health, national security and environment and add insult to injury by actively discouraging development of the energy sectors that will eventually allow us to leave fossil fuels behind.
In the midst of this year's "Arab Spring," approximately 149 countries formalized the creation of the International Renewable Energy Agency called IRENA, a relatively new entity designed to accelerate renewable energy adoption.
An overemphasis on breakthrough inventions can obscure the fact that most of the energy technologies we need already exist. Developing a clean-energy economy is not about gadgets, but new policies.
Moving toward a "clean energy economy" will require more than just a re-wiring of the energy grid; it will also take a re-wiring of ourselves -- a conversion, really, of our habits of the heart.
Boulder's energy audit program was designed to get people motivated to make energy-efficient improvements. But follow-up surveys found homeowners didn't make even the smallest recommended changes.
Ironically, as delegates in Copenhagen are ramping up efforts to preserve forests globally to slow global warming, a technology having the opposite effect is poised to wreak havoc on forests around the world.
Senator Barack Obama's environmental platform is pretty clear. He supports clean coal, would create five million green-collar jobs if elected President, and would put a million plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015.
This week's discovery -- using solar power to mimic photosynthesis -- could help us use the huge abundance of sun energy in a way that can give power to people everywhere.
Former Presidential candidate and Democrat from North Carolina, Senator John Edwards joined Santa Monica based Global Green USA Friday as a co-chairma...
T. Boone Pickens would have a field day with these wild wind turbine base-jumping bandits. This video is insane! Base-jumping off the blade of a giant wind turbine . . . jeeez.