MADRID, Spain — A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town o...
AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom. ...
Andy Posner | Posted 12.24.2008 | Green
The key to supporting green collar entrepreneurs is to combine Van Jones' green job training model with Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus' model for microfinance.
Julia Moulden | Posted 12.23.2008 | Living
On Monday, I spoke at the Social Entrepreneurship Summit held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto. Although, as the name suggests, people came to learn abou...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green
Cellulosic ethanol is a type of fuel made from fibrous plant matter -- the non-edible stuff -- and wood chips. Optimists speculate that it could be as...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green
Obama recognizes something those cynics may not: that the path to economic stability leads right through global warming solutions.
Treehugger | Alex Pasternack | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green
As the ghost of GM's assassinated electric car haunts a fearful Detroit, another boogeyman is waiting in the wings: the world's first mass-produced p...
Paige Donner | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
What was heard at the Governor's Global Climate Summit, held earlier this week in Los Angeles, was a chorus of international voices.
Chelsea Green | J S Mcdougall | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green
Greg Pahl, author of Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options, no longer relies on fossil fuels for winter heat. He has no...
Reuters | Deborah Zabarenko | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green
Politicians actually listened when experts told them to protect Canada's boreal forest, a potent weapon against global warming, and the plan for this ...
Gillian Caldwell | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green
30 national organizations working to combat global warming came together on a set of recommendations delivered to President-elect Obama earlier this month.
Josh Dorner | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green
President-Elect Obama's remarks should quiet any remaining suspicions that his campaign pledges were merely fleeting campaign promises to be discarded after Election Day.
Julia Moulden | Posted 12.16.2008 | Living
The response to last week's post made me realize it's time to write about New Radical Innovators (New Radicals are people like you and me who've found...
Green Inc. | Matthew L. Wald | Posted 12.13.2008 | Green
A Colorado company will break ground early next year on an algae farm that is intended to produce thousands of gallons of substitutes for gasoline and...
Treehugger | Warren McLaren | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green
The ninth wind farm in South Australia just opened on the Barunga Ranges near Snowtown. Its 47 turbines, installed by Trust Power of New Zealand, (who...
Clint Wilder | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green
2104 is the year that ten-year-old Malia Obama would turn 106, and her younger sister Sasha would do so in 2108. What will the nation and the world look like then?
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.10.2008 | Green
At a time when energy costs have become a real focus again -- and major nuclear failures appear to be fading in consumers' memories -- one business is...
Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green
Chalk up another institute of higher education getting into renewable energy. L.A. Southwest College (part of Los Angeles' community college system) h...
Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 12.01.2008 | Entertainment
In between doing some Planet Green events I've been filming for G Word, one of Discovery's new shows. Here's a recap on one of my favorite episodes. S...
EcoGeek | Hank Green | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business
The plant is the first built by Ausra which is already planning a similar plant in Las Vegas. They're somewhat famous for their claim that they could ...
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 11.29.2008 | Green
Morgan Stanley plans to build a 150-megawatt data center powered entirely by tidal energy off the coast of Scotland, the banking giant announced earlier this month.
AP | Posted 11.28.2008 | Chicago
An agreement has been reached between the developer of a McLean County wind farm and a group of landowners that opposed the project. Invenergy Wind...
David Sassoon | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green
Pickens has always said he's getting involved with wind for the money -- not because he's an environmentalist or because he cares about global warming.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green
If these trends in the fossil fuel markets continue, prices will drop, but that means companies won't invest in new projects. Inevitability, we will be looking at a brownout future.
Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
With the completion of a new 194 MW wind farm off the coast of Skegness, Lincolnshire the United Kingdom has overtaken Denmark to claim the offshore w...
AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green