By TODD WOODY | The New York Times | May 7, 2010 AMID the $6 million homes perched on a beachfront cliff in this conservative Southern California enclave, the seven-year-old Honda Civic hybrid with the Obama bumper sticker is the giveaway. It’s not the usual drive of choice for wealthy former hedge fund managers like [...]
By Daniel Roth | Wired May 2010 | April 19, 2010 | 12:00 pm It’s late November 2009, and US energy secretary Steven Chu is leaning against a fake sink in a fake kitchen. Chu is 62 years old and athletically trim with graying black hair. He’s wearing a rumpled pin-striped suit, argyle socks, and [...]
By PAUL KRUGMAN | The New York Times Magazine | April 05, 2010 If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as [...]
Series By Alan During | Sightline Daily | March 15-19, 2010 Imagine an electric bike. Zipping through the city. Surging up hills without gasping for breath. Riding in business dress and arriving fresh and dry. Healthy, moderate exercise. No traffic jams. Free parking. Huge load-hauling potential. Near-free fueling. Zero emissions. Breeze in your face. Appealing! [...]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | The New York Times | February 16, 2010 It took more than a month for the container ship Ebba Maersk to steam from Germany to Guangdong, China, where it unloaded cargo on a recent Friday — a week longer than it did two years ago. But for the owner, the Danish [...]
by Robert McClure in Dateline Earth/InvestigateWEST | February 8, 2010 I’ve always been just a hair skeptical about all those admonitions to consumers to save the world — you know, the “Live simply, that others may simply live”-type instructions. They felt a little too much like guilt-tripping to me, with perhaps not enough corresponding actual [...]
Carbon offsets reflect the tendency of environmentalism to act like a new religion. Remember European history about the buying and selling of indulgences? But there can be good sense in donating to atone for our offenses against the environment. By Anthony B. Robinson | Crosscut.com | February 5, 2010 The other day I, half-joking, told [...]
‘Community solar park’: State hopes Ellensburg idea takes off LEAH BETH WARD | YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC | December 13, 2009 ELLENSBURG – Gary Nystedt was brainstorming with a group of colleagues at a solar energy conference a few years ago when the idea hit him. What if Ellensburg put up solar panels in a park and [...]
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY, December 4, 2009 The home building industry is struggling, but one sector is booming: green homes. The number of homes winning the government’s Energy Star designation since the program began in 1995 has crossed the 1 million mark. Despite an overall housing slump, 75,000 have been added so far this [...]