Outgoing Greenpeace leader talks about activism, economics, and his next steps

John Passacantando. Greenpeace has earned a reputation as the environmental movement’s radical faction, and John Passacantando, executive director of the...

Interior Department employees under investigation for sex, drugs, and bribe scandal

Thirteen government officials are under investigation for allegedly engaging in illicit sex with and accepting a number of gifts from...

Impressions from Terra Madre in Turin, Italy

    After days of feasts — intellectual, social, and culinary — my mind is too scrambled to put together...

Heritage blog blasts green jobs on the basis of misattributed quotes and misled analysis

Executive summary: Don’t waste your time on the Heritage Foundation’s energy blog, a source of misleading headlines and general conservative...

A review of disposable eco-diapers

We got you covered. After having my first child this summer, I learned one thing right off the bat: The...

Nature magazine gives short-shrift to baseload solar

Nature recently ran an article ($ub. req’d) on “Energy alternatives: Electricity without carbon.” Like most discussions written by people who...

Wind, solar thermal, and geothermal development outpaces expectations

As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the...

Cabins are not ‘earth-friendly’

Green: A marketing scheme used to sell environmentally destructive crap to unthinking dupes.

Here's an eco-fantasy article crafted to sell second homes. Scaling from the French doors in one picture I calculate that this "cabin" is twice the size of my own two-story, two-bath, four-bedroom home in Seattle. Half of this visible wall is window, having half the insulation value of a typical wall:

America’s governors unite to plead for extension of renewable tax credits

Today, 50 governors — if you’re counting, that’s all of them — sent a letter to Congress [PDF] asking that...