Archive: Feb 2012
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Why is the White House sitting on efficiency standards?
New efficiency standards for buildings and appliances have inexplicably been awaiting approval by the Office of Management and Budget for months now.
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Growing home: Dinner from a refugee garden [VIDEO]
The Perennial Plate crew drops by a refugee garden in Atlanta and goes home with a Bhutanese family for dinner.
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Oil shale drilling another terrible aspect of GOP transportation bill
Yet another reason why the Republican transportation bill sucks: It would open up more land to oil shale mining -- a destructive and not-commercially feasible technology.
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Non-starter: Republican transportation bill is dead on arrival
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, seemingly intent on driving the country into a ditch, have thrown together a “uniquely terrible” transportation bill. A growing chorus of critics says the legislation is far from roadworthy.
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DOE Loan Guarantee Program will cost $2 billion less than expected
Shocker: An independent analysis of the DOE Loan Guarantee Program found that loan guarantees for energy have been successful, cost-effective investments.
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Why climate hawks should care about birth-control access
Any morally acceptable pathway to prevent catastrophic global warming includes broad access to affordable birth control for the world's women.
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A new way of measuring carbon emissions that doesn’t let rich people cheat
There's no comprehensive, standardized way for cities to track their carbon pollution, but a new study puts forward a useful model. And it counts not just the CO2 we produce, but the CO2 we consume.
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House fit for a green: Sustainable home construction booms
With the value of the residential green building market expected to grow fivefold by 2016, builders say going green is great for their business.
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Glamour trip: Real snobs don’t ride the subway
When conjuring the image of liberal high society, Newt Gingrich often points to the subway. His compadres in Congress want to obliterate designated funding for mass transit. Here’s the real reason they hate trains.
