While everyone’s attention is on the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, we should remember - this ain’t news. Have you ever heard of Ecuador and a little company called Texaco? Probably not - and that’s the problem.
I just finished viewing “Crude: The Real Price of Oil,” and what I learned about […]

From the Department of Silver Linings: Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort seas are safe, at least for the moment. And Virginia’s offshore lease appears to be, well, dead in the water. Thanks, BP!
In the Obama administration’s most decisive policy response yet to the BP oil spill, today Barack Obama delayed or canceled deepwater offshore oil exploration […]

I figured I’d regret giving BP credit for its oil spill response. Daniel Gross catalogs BP bumbling.

Thinking about solar panels for your roof, but not sure about the cost? Use Google Earth to suss out your home’s solar energy footprint.
RoofRay.com zeroes in on your rooftop via Google Earth to analyze your roof’s sunlight potential and estimate your solar ROI: how much would solar panels cost you, and how much could you […]

The THINK electric car company just received a $40 million “battery charge” - an equity investment designed to help the company increase product development and launch in the United States. The Norwegian automaker plans to start selling the THINK City EV in the US in 2010 and will begin manufacturing the vehicle in Elkhart, Indiana, […]

CNN has a good description of why the dome failed to cap BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill: methane hydrates. So what’s next?

Over the last few years, BP, the petroleum company formerly known as British Petroleum, has been in a mad rush to re-brand themselves, launching the disingenuous “Beyond Petroleum” campaign and making big statements about “alternative energy” - which, in their very generous definition, includes natural gas. They even change the color of all their stations […]

Amtrak has thrown us enviros an eco-curveball. The rail operator recently announced the nation’s first biofuel-powered locomotive on its line from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Fort Worth, Texas. Awesome! The catch? The biodiesel feedstock is beef tallow.
Of course we want to support biodiesel efforts that have real benefits in reduced emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), […]

Climate change isn’t coming, folks - it’s already here. So says the EPA in an 80-page report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States, announced yesterday.
“Climate change is a very real problem with impacts that are already being seen,” said Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation.
According to the report, things […]

Shopping. We all do it. We all buy stuff we need, stuff we want, and some stuff that, honestly, we could probably do without. But it’s a fact of life, we live in a dispersed and increasingly global economy, and shopping isn’t going away. And all that stuff we buy impacts the planet.
So what can […]

So you want to buy green, but you don’t know what to look for? It’s true; the array of “green” claims is dizzying, and it can be hard to cut through the green marketing hype to make truly informed sustainable shopping choices.
Don’t become a victim of eco-stress! Use these six common-sense guidelines to help make […]

“The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.” - Timbuk 3
Dynamic window technology may soon have buildings singing a new tune - one that’s dramatically more energy-efficient. While it seems almost sci-fi, it makes perfect sense: eliminate unwanted solar gain and heat loss with a dimmable window that changes color to match light conditions.
It’s like […]