Next week, 10,000 students and youth will converge on the Capitol for a massive lobby day to demand action on climate change and green jobs.
On March 2, thousands of people have pledged to commit nonviolent civil disobedience at ...READ»
Pankaj Shah is a 36-year-old four-time entrepreneur whose latest project, Tonic, is like Angelina Jolie in website form: glitz and sex appeal combined with do-gooding and a dose of unreasonable optimism. The for-profit site sells ...READ»
Worries about the Earth reaching its full carrying capacity for humans are nothing new, and they all come back to how much food we can grow. Our last case of the Malthusian heebie-jeebies, in the 1950s, was put to rest by the ...READ»
A German company has found a "magic formula" to make a tough, resilient, moldable and recyclable plastic-like substance called Arboform from lignin, a component of wood. Intriguingly, lignin is currently a byproduct of paper ...READ»
Pasadena's Art Center College of Design is in the middle of a three-day summit on sustainable mobility and the future of the automotive industry, bringing designers together with political leaders like Rep. Edward Markey and LA's ...READ»
The Obama stimulus signed yesterday contains $11 billion for technological upgrades to the electric grid. Huge companies like IBM, Cisco, GE, and now Google all have initiatives and investments in the so-called "smart grid." But ...READ»
Sirius XM Satellite Radio is filing for bankruptcy. Back in the early 2000s, it seemed like the future of radio: Sirius and XM, each with hundreds of channels, ready to take you from shock jocks to swing bands to comedy to grunge to ...READ»
Is the green energy future big or small?
Should the taxpayers and utilities be investing hundreds of billions in new heavy-metal infrastructure to transmit renewable energy to big cities from massive centralized installations in the ...READ»
Think: did you leave a light on this morning? What if you could pull up your homepage and find out, right now?
As I wrote about last fall, companies from IBM and GE to startups are getting excited about green IT: Managing natural ...READ»
It's become commonplace in the sustainability world to say water is the oil of the 21st century. But it may be more accurate to say it's the new carbon. The problem is not about absolute scarcity--after all, the world's supply of ...READ»
