Clean, Sustainable Energy vs. Fracking Colorado
Clearly when it comes to environmental protection, public health and sustainable energy, it requires a groundswell of action by the people.
Clearly when it comes to environmental protection, public health and sustainable energy, it requires a groundswell of action by the people.
Philip Warburg | Posted 05.03.2012
In the Flint Hills of Kansas, rancher Pete Ferrell angered neighbors when he allowed turbines on his land. They preferred looking at pristine prairie; he chose to invest in a sustainable, locally abundant energy resource.
Michael Zacka | Posted 04.27.2012
Earth Day was a powerful first act to what could be a wonderful stage production by drawing worldwide attention to universal environmental issues and setting the stage for changes needed in our own consumption patterns.
Mike Casey | Posted 04.27.2012
The clean energy industry has to dramatically scale its advocacy investment to meet an aggressive disinformation campaign trained against it by the fossil lobby.
Yul Kwon | Posted 04.23.2012
Americans on average are the biggest consumers of energy on the planet, and keeping the power that we need flowing is a monumental undertaking. Despite our increasing demand for energy, Americans waste a staggering amount of it.
Carl Pope | Posted 04.03.2012
So what has changed for the world since first Earth Summit in Rio twenty years ago -- and what new challenges and opportunities will be on the table at the end of June when the UN again convenes its members?
Robert Walker | Posted 05.30.2012
Let's hope that Michelle Duggar knows vastly more about population and resources than all those scientists at "Planet under Pressure," a conference aimed at finding solutions to climate change and the challenge of feeding another 2.3 billion people by 2050.
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.30.2012
Nobuo Tanaka realizes that there is a legitimate debate to be had about the safety and management of Japan's nuclear energy facilities, but that a total rejection of nuclear energy will send Japan over a cliff as deindustrialization is triggered by energy shocks.
Posted 03.22.2012
Poop. Is there anything it can't do? On Wednesday, The Denver Zoo introduced what is believed to be the world's first poo-powered motorized tuk tuk sh...
Michael P. Owens | Posted 05.02.2012
I asked top green business executives, experts and political leaders, who are speaking at the 2012 Sustainable Operations Summit in NYC, what they think is most encouraging as well as what they think is most frustrating about the state of sustainability.
Patti Prairie | Posted 02.26.2012
As the volume of enterprise data skyrockets, an industry is growing up around using this flood of information to help companies operate more efficiently and sustainably.
Dennis V. McGinn | Posted 11.26.2011
After many "false starts," renewable energy technologies are beginning to take hold. As those technologies scale up, their costs decline.
Peter Hoffmann | Posted 11.29.2011
Massive production, storage and reconversion of hydrogen to electricity is a key prerequisite for a future carbon dioxide-free sustainable energy economy and the Third Industrial Revolution.
Heather Libby | Posted 11.23.2011
This Saturday the world will come together for Moving Planet -- a global day to move beyond fossil fuels.
Dave Llorens | Posted 11.02.2011
Solyndra overestimated their market and their ability to deliver, and now they're going under. But guess what? This happens every single day to Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
Robin Madel | Posted 10.18.2011
When you think about renewable energy sources, what comes to mind? Solar panels or wind turbines, maybe even hydropower? You're probably not thinking about trash.
John Farrell | Posted 09.27.2011
A recently released solar map of New York City found enough room on building rooftops for solar panels to power half the city during hours of peak electricity use. New York City is not alone in its solar power potential.
Michael Rose | Posted 08.14.2011
Maria Gunnoe's fight to stop MTR and transform the Appalachian Mountains into a wind energy powerhouse attracted filmmaker Bill Haney and his partners, who feature her in their documentary, The Last Mountain.
Peter Hanlon | Posted 08.02.2011
As of 2010, the Solar Energy Industries Association ranks New York seventh of all the states in terms of installed solar capacity. Seventh is respectable, right? Not when New Jersey is number two.
Lewis Milford | Posted 07.12.2011
Contrary to conventional wisdom, breakthroughs in climate technology are likely to come from developing countries.
Ervin Laszlo | Posted 07.12.2011
Today humanity is a vast system of seven billion, with enormous technological powers and unprecedented demands. Its divorce from nature is approaching a tipping point: in its present form the human system is critically unsustainable.
Rob Kerth | Posted 07.09.2011
What often gets lost in the national conversation is that the best way for the whole country to weather a rise in gas prices is to use more alternative transportation.
Dan Worth | Posted 07.05.2011
Frustrated by inaction, teenagers are suing their state and federal governments in an attempt to protect what they see as their common trust and its capacity to support life as we know it.
Betsy Perry | Posted 06.25.2011
While our public school kids are fighting for a hot breakfast and desk space, these lucky duck kids are the ones who may have the money and time to focus on the quality of life going forward.
Brandon Boyd | Posted 06.13.2011
The word 'Sustainability' is quite evocative isn't it? Not so much so as words like, 'Murder', 'Socialist', 'Sex' or 'Religion'. But what it shares with these other rabble rousing terms is that it evokes something different in each person the word is fired at.
Michele Swenson | Posted 05.08.2012