The projects described in this story give some informative clues as to where American innovation in environmental technologies is going at this point. Read More...

Smart meters, like most new technologies, have fearful opponents who are not only Libertarians fearing government & corporate intrusion from the right, but also health vigilantes and people with privacy concerns from the left. Read More...

When you fly in a plane, hour after hour, over vast expanses of earth, it’s hard to think that something so vast is something we can use up. The fact is, however, that we are using up the planet, and there is no Planet B. We’re all indigenous people; indigenous to Earth. Hard as... Read More...

This article in the NY Times can be used as a checklist of the many things you can do to insulate your house yourself, for very little money, with very little skill, and come up with substantial savings in energy use. Read More...

Verdant Power has been testing turbines in New York City's East River, a tidal water body, and has applied to install a full-fledged tidal power plant there. It's good green news for the city -- and for the environment, as the potential of tidal power in the power-source mix is significant. Read More...

Even as huge piles and vast ponds of accumulated coal ash dot the landscape, the EPA has been slow to designate coal ash as hazardous material, and the administration isn't helping. Read More...

With a quarter of the world's people living without electricity, the rise of low-cost single-panel solar power generators for huts in the remote African and Mongolian countryside herald a completely new and unexpected source of human transformation -- and it's all renewable. Read More...

The bottles that bottled water come in litter the environment by the billions, yet even in declining economies, emerging markets open for them because they represent clean drinking water. Then, of course, there are the rest of us, who persist in drinking water in disposable plastic bottles. Read More...

With the runoff from both commercial fertilizers and manure from commercial farms and feedlots poisoning our waterways, lakes and the Caribbean, a solution is in sight. The rising price of the fertilizer is beginning to return farmers to use composted manure as fertilizer again. Read More...

The poor are always with us, and their neighborhoods contain more than their fair share of soil contaminated by dumping, hazardous waste businesses, heavy truck traffic, and chemically contaminated drinking water. The EPA has awarded a grant to create a database for Camden, New Jersey, to connect the dots between illness and chemical exposure. Read More...