The Bureau of Land Management has put a freeze on applications for solar installations on public land in the Southwest.

London proposes a cable car to cross the Thames instead of a bridge, significantly reducing the crossing’s carbon impact.

HGTV’s list of ways your home can save the planet turns out to be a shopping list. Getsolar.com wonders why renewable energy and conservation aren’t even mentioned.

“Taking a dodgy accounting proposition, which is that you can somehow identify the amount of carbon that any given new bit of forest picks up out of the atmosphere and sequesters, and make that correspond somehow to emissions elsewhere,” is how Greenpeace sees carbon offsetting, according to its senior climate adviser Charlie Kronick. “It can’t [...]

Much as my personal politics prevent me from saying this with too much enthusiasm, I am in some ways quite happy that the Supreme Court denied Al Gore the presidency. If it weren’t for him, who would be the galvanizing figurehead for the fight against climate change? I feel like he really has the right [...]

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Today, it may not directly affect the physical and socioeconomic environment of the U.S. as much as it does some developing countries, but deforestation anywhere deserves some attention, and not just from tree huggers. It accounts for about one fifth of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, after all, and a study from the WWF (World [...]

Seed banks represent tremendous value for agriculture: in the event of a natural or manmade disaster of epic proportions, we won’t be scratching around in the dirt for native seeds that might have survived. They’re also a form of insurance against the day we genetically modify food plants past usefulness. We’ll have the healthy, viable [...]

Sometimes, I don’t really have answers. This case where the neighbors of a solar user were forced to cut down their trees is one of those times.
This story brings up all kinds of troublesome issues, and challenges a lot of assumptions about green living and being environmentally responsible. Most, or at least many, environmentalists would [...]

Oft-hailed over the past few years as a panacea for our nation’s energy and agriculture woes, biofuel has had a tough week. According to two independent studies published in the journal Science yesterday, almost all of the biofuels used today actually emit more greenhouse gases than do fossil fuels if we count the “full emissions [...]

We don’t usually think that hard about what that means. Calories, yes; occasionally we consider the carbon footprint of our meal in terms of how far it had to travel to us, if it came packaged in plastic or cardboard, etc. But a recent New York Times article brings to light the truly dark side [...]