The desert city, Las Vegas, was funding its lavish water system entirely by charging new arrivals to hook up to it. Now growth is down by 94 per cent and the Water Authority is wringing its hands. Read More...

The shortage of water could affect the production of electricity in Texas. Controversy rages over how much, and what can be done about it. Solar, wind and gas loom large. Read More...

Here, from an environmental blog, are 10 things you can do to make you more environmentally conscious in 2012 -- if that's what you'd like to be. Read More...

This short article in Business Week highlights the difficulties we face in getting the toxic chemicals and materials we use out of our environment and highlights the importance of recycling. Read More...

China is undergoing electric car technology growing pains, but the industry there has a special ally in the powerful electric companies, which may change the game. Starting with charging stations, the Chinese may yet finesse the technology and dominate it. Read More...

As the human population flows into cities, he reclamation of urban rivers as parkland is fortunately becoming more common. Here the Times describes the return of 6 kilometers of land along Madrid's Manzanares River to breathable, livable human habitat. Read More...

Germany is leading the way with "biovillages," towns that generate all their heating energy and electricity from farm waste, manure, crop leavings, wood chips and the like. The setup not only saves the inhabitants tons of money, the towns produce income by selling surplus power to the national grid. Read More...

As drought banishes farmers from their land, rural people become urban, and find it hard to buy enough food. Increasing numbers of the urban poor are starting to grow their own food, often producing enough to sell. It is a trend becoming world-wide. Read More...

New York City is preparing to allow a broad range of exceptions to its stringent building code for improvements to buildings that will make them healthier and cheaper to run while emitting less carbon. The City calls the new rules "Green Zone" regulations. Read More...

While telling Congress that EPA's clean air and clean water rules will destroy the economy and their company while costing thousands of jobs, the same companies tell their banks and investors that the same rules will either have no effect or will have an effect that cannot yet be determined. The rest of us... Read More...

500 million gallons for fracking may not seem a lot when the region is expecting to be 300 billion gallons short of drinking water in the near future, but the picture of Colorado selling the water for fracking on its Front Range, where most of its biggest towns and cities are, even as the... Read More...

Sustainable farming is getting a new crop from a grain, lupin, long used primarily as animal feed. Lupin is native to northern Europe, does not require spraying with Roundup to survive, and has more protein and less fat than soy beans. Read More...

After making $7.2 billion from July to September, and letting an oil spill gush for weeks before stopping it, Shell offered the affected communities 50 bags of rice, beans, sugar and tomatoes as disaster relief. You have to ask, does anyone in the oil industry have any sense of shame? Read More...

There's a new study that proves what we know: making your building more energy efficient really saves you a lot of money. Read More...