The normally conservative International Energy Agency is now saying that we must act faster to prevent climate change. Not only to prevent catastrophe, but also because the longer we wait, the more difficult and expensive it becomes to achieve the greater and greater cuts that are necessary to keep worldwide temperature rise to 2 degrees Centigrade or a 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit global average. Join discussion...

Do you dream of an organic garden, but don’t have a yard? A flock of chicks, perhaps, but don’t have a yard? Home-grown food, and lower grocery bills (but, alas, no yard!)? Dream no more, because you can have it, and without quitting your job, trading your bus pass for a pickup, or moving to the rural north. Join discussion...

Think about how much trash goes into a bin in, say, New York City’s Times Square on a daily basis. What if all that garbage could be used to generate energy? That’s the thinking behind designer Haneum Lee’s Gaon Street Light – a lamppost powered by garbage! Join discussion...

About half of American lakes and reservoirs contain fish with potentially harmful levels of the toxic metal mercury, a federal study said. The Environmental Protection Agency found mercury, which is primarily released from coal-fired power plants, in all fish samples it collected from 500 lakes and reservoirs from 2000 to 2003. Join discussion...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most U.S. consumers recognize the Environmental Protection Agency's blue Energy Star label when it is posted on an energy-saving refrigerator, water heater or other appliance. But the program reached a major milestone on Tuesday when the agency marked the one millionth home to be built with the Energy Star label. Join discussion...

Have you heard the latest news out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? The word on the pollution (it's growing) and impact on wildlife (it's poisoning them) is not good. But a silver lining is that budding environmental reporter Lindsey Hoshaw completed her impressive fact-finding mission, in part supported by the groundbreaking crowd-sourced site Spot.Us. Join discussion...

Recently, there have been worried or angry or outraged articles in the blogosphere about the stimulus money going to help create jobs in Canada, China, or going into the pockets of foreign multinational companies. The reality is - you get what you want. You cannot have the creation of large scale manufacturing employment without, again, an industrial policy. Join discussion...

Each day each person throws out about 4.7 pounds of garbage that is often taken to a landfill to be processed where it eventually decomposes. But what many people don't know is that the waste process doesn't necessarily end there. When organic waste decomposes through natural means, it emits gases that can be collected and used to generate renewable energy and fuels. Join discussion...

Disposable diapers clog landfills for hundreds of years...an overwhelming majority of parents choose disposables and approximately 27.4 billion diapers make their way to American landfills every year. Join discussion...

Severn Cullis-Suzuki was only 12 years old when she spoke before the UN earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. A child speaking before adults representing all the countries in the world – yet her speech was anything but childish. It was a galvanizing admonition and an appeal to everyone to help stop the destruction of the earth’s resources. Join discussion...