The Huffington Poor Posted by Stephen Green on January 5, 2009 at 5:37 pm How do you create a $2 million internet media company? You start with $25 million, and give it to Arianna Huffington… …
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Skilling convictions upheld, resentencing ordered
HOUSTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling's convictions for his role in the energy giant's collapse but vacated his 24-year prison term and ordered that he be resentenced....…
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Run your car on trash
Wow: All Power Labs has converted a Honda Accord to run on trash: We may not yet have a flux capacitor for time travel, but we do already have the equivalent of "Mr. Fusion", which if cleverly applied, will enable you to run your car on everyday "trash"-- today. This "magical" device is called a gasifier. …
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Powering Down: Q&A with Saul Griffith...
Powering Down: Q&A with Saul Griffith... Forget about a new gym membership or diet. The most important New Year’s resolution for 2009 may be slimming down your energy footprint. Saul Griffith, a MacArthur genius grant winner and president of Makani Power, believes that a mass movement is necessary to avert catastrophic climate change. …
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Could ‘Tentacle’ UFO Have Destroyed UK Wind Turbine?
Could ‘Tentacle’ UFO Have Destroyed UK Wind Turbine? Written by Andrew Williams Published on January 6th, 2009 6 Comments Posted in wind energy Several residents of a remote English village have reported sightings of a bizarre tentacle-shaped UFO above a local wind farm, on the night before a wind turbine was mysteriously destroyed. …
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Timber company backs out of controversial road deal with Forest Service.
Last week, ThinkProgress noted that Forest Service chief Mark E. Rey, who is a former lobbyist for the timber industry, was trying to “push through a change in U.S. Forest Service agreements that would make it far easier for mountain forests to be converted to housing subdivisions.” The last-minute …
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30 Passionate Arguments for Faith-Based Environmental Protection: the Sierra Club’s “Holy Ground”
“From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.” (Romans I: 20) “Have you not seen how God sets forth a parable? A good word is like a good tree whose roots are firm and whose branches reach heaven. …
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Cleantech Venture Investment in ‘08 Breaks Record, Despite Weak Finish
Despite a significant drop cleantech startups investments in the fourth quarter, 2008 still delivered a record level of investment for the cleantech industry, according to two reports out recently. According to the Cleantech Group’s preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2008, $1.7 billion was put into 99 investments, the smallest quarterly total in the last 6 quarters. …
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Tidal power gets a boost from propeller and wind turbine techonology
Propellers on ships have been tried and tested for centuries in the rough and unforgiving environment of the sea: now this long-proven technology will be used in reverse to harness clean energy from the UK's powerful tides.The tides that surge around the…
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LA water cops hunt wasteful faucets, sprinklers
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The green thumbs who keep lawns lush and flora flourishing in the city have found a new foe among the aphids, white flies and other yard pests - the water police....…
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George Monbiot: It will take more than goodwill and greenwash to save the biosphere
For a while it seemed that Shell had stopped pretending. The advertisements that filled the newspapers in 2006, featuring technicians with perfect teeth and open-necked shirts explaining how they were saving the world, vanished. After being slated by…
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Timber Firm Drops Road-Use Request
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 -- A controversial U.S. Forest Service plan that would have made it easier to build houses in Western mountain forests was dropped Monday when the nation's largest private landowner abruptly backed off the request that sparked the issu…
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2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid vs. Camry Hybrid, Altima Hybrid, and Malibu Hybrid
How about 700 miles on a tankful? We test four hybrid family haulers that eke more miles from every gallon.BY PATRICK BEDARDLike the price of sea bass on the restaurant menu, the cost of gas has become wildly unpredictable. As this comparison convoy of…
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Oil caught in tug-of-war
Oil prices fluctuated wildly Tuesday then settled slightly lower after a handful of dismal economic reports countered signs that OPEC nations were starting to comply with planned output cuts.…
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Video: George Monbiot meets ... Jeroen van de Veer
Britain's leading green commentator, George Monbiot, goes head-to-head with the chief executive of oil giant Shell, tackling ethics, greenwash advertising, renewable energy investments and gas-flaring in Nigeria…
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