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'Nourish' TV show encourages Americans to ask where their food comes from

Hosted by Cameron Diaz, Nourish features interviews with an all-star cast of the sustainable/real/we-know-it-when-we-eat-it food movement.

Who can fill Lisa Heinzerling's shoes?

Lisa Heinzerling's departure from the EPA's Office of Policy and Planning doesn't need to mean the winding-down of aggressive action at the EPA.

Oscar-nominated documentary 'Waste Land' explores the world's largest garbage dump

Fascinating trash-art documentary Waste Land netted an Oscar nomination today for Best Documentary (Feature). Read our interview with the director!

7-Eleven melting at idea of White House 'Slurpee Summit'

At Wednesday's post-election presidential press conference, a summit built around frozen slushies -- the Everyman drink, we guess -- was suggested as a way of returning to bipartisanship.

Midterms: Green power helps Colorado buck the national trend

Wins by Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper sent a strong signal that supporting new energy and fighting global warming pollution are winning issues.

Big exciting news about building codes. No, really

Maybe it's more inspiring to look at glitzy new green developments like UniverCity or Vancouver's Olympic Village, but these new energy codes improve every new home by 30 percent, not just the ambitious projects.

Me, on EnergyNow [VIDEO]

I was on the show EnergyNow yesterday. I think the episode airs this morning on ABC in the Washington, D.C. area, after Christiane Amanpour's show. Here's the clip and a few thoughts.

House Republicans vying for top energy spot ratchet up tough talk

Now that the voting stuff is over, Washington gets down to its real business: Backroom power.

Why did the Prop 23 fight in California go so well while the national effort flailed?

Why were climate hawks so successful in California while they've done so poorly at the national level? What lessons can be learned from the Prop 23 campaign? Here are a few thoughts to get the discussion started.

California's conservative counties voted green on Prop 23

The No forces' message that Prop 23 would kill green jobs seemed to hit home in conservative counties like Riverside and San Bernardino, where the unemployment rate has hit 15 percent this year.