Latest Articles

We can't beat China at cleantech as long as GOP keeps kissing fossil-fuel ass

Can the U.S. compete with China on greentech? No, because most Republicans don't believe that boosting America's clean energy industries is a worthy goal.

What is a 'normal' climate? Definitions are changing [VIDEO]

Climate Central's Heidi Cullen explains how "normals" for our climate during the past decade will very likely change soon.

Windmade is the next Fair Trade, gets backers like LEGO

By December of this year, the next box of Legos you buy could be stamped "made with 100% Wind Power." Subsequently, countless other goods you buy could bear the Windmade stamp, which -- like Fair Trade, Organic, Recycled, etc. -- is competing to become one more differentiator for goods made with sustainability in mind.

2010 hits top of temperature chart

Topping off the warmest decade in history, 2010 experienced a global average temperature of 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit, tying 2005 as the hottest year in 131 years of recordkeeping.

Mark Ruffalo's position on fracking deserves a standing O

Photo: Christopher HarteWe got all excited when we heard Mark Ruffalo was getting involved in the debate over the destructive natural-gas extraction process called “fracking.” Turns out that’s because we thought he was Mark Wahlberg. Mark Ruffalo is a serious actor, who was never in any Funky Bunch! We have no jokes about that at […]

Food industry FAIL: Foods promoted as healthy for kids — surprise! — are mostly not

A new study released today by the Prevention Institute should represent the final nail in the coffin of food industry self-regulation. Out of 50 products claimed to be good for kids, 84 percent flunk basic nutritional standards.

China's biggest cities grow its greenest citizens

People in large Chinese cities are more environmentally aware -- and more likely to act on that awareness -- than those in smaller cities.

California city is the first, but not the last, to flee rising sea levels

Threatened by rising ocean levels, the city of Ventura, California is starting to pick up stakes and move inland. This "managed retreat" is the first of its kind in California, but it's not likely to be the last.

Six reasons free parking is the dumbest thing you didn't know you were subsidizing

The U.S. has as many as eight parking spaces per car. That's more than a billion parking spaces, or one for every person in China, should they need them once they're done buying all our post-crash assets for jiǎos on the yuán. This isn't just overkill -- it's stupid, destructive, expensive overkill.

New Agtivists: Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez turn coffee grounds into fun fungi kits

When two good-looking 23-year-olds give up careers in investment banking to grow mushrooms, oysters and shiitakes aren't the first fungi one imagines.