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Obama Cries Out for Climate-Change Solutions, but What Happens Now?
The president heartened environmentalists with the strongest presidential statement on warming in history. All that's left to see is how he follows through.
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The American Commuter Spends 38 Hours a Year Stuck in Traffic
We spend the equivalent of a week at work stuck in traffic every year
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Pepsi vs. Wall St.: Why Should a Soda Company Try to Be 'Good for You'?
Can Pepsi be an innovative force for good in a world of corporate bean-counters and hard-nosed investors? We're finding out.
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An Opportunity for Women in the New Global Population Numbers?
By 2050, the world will contain 10 billion people, the UN now predicts, but we shouldn't see the statistic through the failed lens of population control
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Japan Quake May Stall U.S. Nuclear-Power Expansion Plans
Obama's clean energy plans rely on a tenuous truce between nuclear power advocates and environmentalists. Could nuclear meltdown reverse these gains?
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The Bare Bones Guide to Twitter
Whether you're considering joining the Twitter bandwagon or already have handle, here are the basics behind the most comprehensive pulse of information today
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The No-Good, Very Bad, Overwrapped Banana
Del Monte is marketing plastic-wrapped bananas—to the horror of environmentalists. But what is the right reaction?
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Unplug Tonight, March 4th
This Friday is the beginning of the national day of unplugging, a 24-hour period during which people voluntary shut off gadgets. What's one thing you'll do to unplug?
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Libya's Revolution Offers a Second Chance for Clean Energy
The 2008 oil price spike was quickly forgotten in the haze of recession, but Libya's revolution could put innovation back on track
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Small Initiatives, Big Impact: What Will Drive Sustainability in 2011
With the global population set to hit 7 billion in 2011, people are taking personal steps and coordinating local action rather than relying on national and global leaders
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Fizzling Sales in India for the Tata Nano, 'The People's Car'
With reports of the automobile catching fire, customers lose faith in the cheap product
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Rumble in the Tundra: Polar Bears vs. Grizzlies
New research shows that polar bears are poorly adapted for the new habitat they will occupy as climate change pushes them southward looking for food
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Climate Change Denier Aims to Chair House Energy Committee
Representative John Shimkus believes we shouldn't worry about climate change because God promised Noah that there wouldn't be another earth-destroying flood
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Debating 'What the Green Movement Got Wrong'
The new documentary questions environmentalists' stance on nuclear energy and a cleaner future. Does it get it right?
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Britain's New Carbon Tax: Could It Work Here?
It will create much needed revenue for a cash-strapped treasury. Will a deficit-reducing carbon tax be more palatable to the public than a complicated cap and trade scheme in the U.S.?
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The Failure of Chevron's New 'We Agree' Ad Campaign
How energy companies can spend millions trying in vain to make themselves look 'green'
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The White House Goes Solar
The White House is going solar: mere distraction or powerful symbol?
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How to Drive U.S. Clean-Energy Job Growth? Collaborate With China
With the clean-technology race intensifying, collaborating with China in developing a Sino-American clean energy alignment provides the best chance to create jobs in both countries
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In Defense of Facebook
Adam Werbach was head of the Sierra Club at 23. Here, one prodigy defends another.
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Summer's Officially Over: What Did It Show Us About Climate Change?