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Here’s the standard story about the U.S. power grid: It gets baseload supply from hydro, nuclear, and coal (in that...
A new study finds that retrofitting old buildings is almost always more eco-friendly than building new ones, and provides the most immediate bang for the buck in the fight against climate change. The implication: Save old cities and we might spare the planet as well.
The march on Saturday. Photo: Oxfam InternationalCross-posted from ThinkProgress Green. As the first week of climate negotiations drew to a...
A reader wonders if there are any funny environmental one-liners. Umbra yuks it up.
Get out your panda-counting equipment, because it's panda census time! China's government is organizing the first panda census in a...
Last fall, our green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, set out to offset the globe-warming gases she produced on a trip to Texas. Four months into it, she’s not even halfway to her goal. The lesson? Well, read on …
Walmart has moved sustainability from the fringe to the forefront of business concerns, showing the drill-baby-drill crowd that eco-friendly choices can help America prosper and compete.
When former Harvard Law Professor and eclectic intellectual Cass Sunstein was named administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory...
First things first: Another week of waiting for details of Senate legislation left little public grist this week. The Economist...