Without actually reducing overall energy demand, just adding more renewable energy (and touting absurdist records like the top energy source for a thr...
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green
A major new report released today is the first to comprehensively benchmark the competitiveness positions of the United States and key Asian challengers in the global clean energy race.
Rob Perks | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
There's a growing consensus that one of the best things we can do to enhance our national security is to get off fossil fuels and transition to clean, home-grown energy.
Leslie Weise | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver
There are many obstacles to transition our dependency on traditional fossil fuels to cleaner energy solutions, and Ritter has demonstrated the courage to confront those obstacles.
Anne Butterfield | Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver
Despite a new wind turbine in Boulder, the elephant in the middle of the New Energy Economy is Comanche 3, the 750 megawatt coal plant in Colorado coming online as soon as next month.
Matt Wasson | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
The fate of Coal River Mountain is America's energy future. If the coal companies can mine there, they can do anything they want.
AP | TIA GOLDENBERG | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
SUSYA, West Bank — Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors – a g...
Matt Wasson | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green
The concept of "energy sprawl," now associated with such a distorted picture of the impacts of wind, solar, coal and nuclear technologies, adds nothing but confusion and false impressions to the climate debate.
sciencedaily.com | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green
Scientists at the University of Calgary have found a way to reduce bat deaths from wind turbines by up to 60 percent without significantly reducing th...
nytimes.com | ABBY GOODNOUGH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
When Mrs. Howland tried to take the next step in green living -- installing a 132-foot windmill in her backyard that would generate enough electricity...
Jennifer Schwab | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
It seems many people support wind and solar energy so long as it's not in my backyard, and not in my hiking grounds either.
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
The current boom in private wind financing will only result in another eventual bust without any consideration for the long-term past the stimulus bill.
Joe Territo | Posted 10.18.2009 | New York
The next time you hold your nose while filling up at the Vince Lombardi rest stop, breathe easy knowing New Jersey is doing its part to clean up our environment and decrease dependence on fossil fuels.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
China could tighten its control over metals essential for a wide array of green technologies, raising the specter of a unilateral OPEC for rare earth metals.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
People in Gary, Indiana don't support climate legislation because environmental groups or labor unions told them to. They support it because they believe in it.
treehugger.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
Earlier this week a new journal article was released that calculated the amount of land needed for energy production under various future energy and c...
Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 09.14.2009 | Chicago
An Illinois proposal that would use federal stimulus money to jump-start manufacturing of wind turbine components and create other green energy busine...
Telegraph | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
A group of climate change activists were arrested after supergluing themselves together outside a Government department in support of workers staging ...
Dennis Markatos | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green
US wind capacity continued its impressive growth in the second quarter while fossil fuel consumption continued to fall.
Dennis Markatos | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green
Wind power is expected to be the biggest source of new electricity supply during 2010-2012, providing 60% of new demand.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
It's obviously not a UFO in the sense of "aliens taking over the world" or anything, but this video shows a rather large weird semi-opaque object fly...
Joshua Keyak | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
While large alternative energy plants will be necessary to meet demand, we must also supplement those plans with lots of small scale generation, like this project in Austin, Texas.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama on Mt. Rushmore; Monsanto lobbyist moves to FDA; Bald eagles move to D.C....
Dennis Markatos | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green
US greenhouse gas emissions are falling quickly in 2009 and bringing us within close reach (a few years) of 1990 levels.
nytimes.com | Kate Galbraith | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green
T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oilman, has abandoned his plan to build the world's largest wind farm....
treehugger.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green