This article on handling a local stormwater problem is a microcosm of the problems involved with with stormwater generally. Water being what it is, rechanneling can involve other people's back yards before you know it. Read More...
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Private and Public Water Wars
Several years ago, the crusty Texan entrepreneur, T. Boone Pickens, who has successfully owned and sold oil, natural gas and wind power, saw water as the source of his next gusher. He formed the Mesa Water Company and spent much of the early 2000’s buying up tens of millions of dollars worth of water... Read More...
Oil and Gas Get Help They Don’t Need. Why Not Renewables, That Need It?
Every single one of our energy industries got -- and still gets -- help from the government. The only reason we balk at help for renewables is that we fall for the PR of the old industries: that renewables are chancy. But that's exactly why they need help. Read More...
Tar Sands Oil Desolates Canadian Environment
An area of boreal forest the size of Iowa, through which the 785-mile Athabasca River flows northeast on its way to feed northern lakes and deltas, is being dug up to feed our insatiable demand for oil at any cost, including the cost of environmental devastation. Read More...
Methane: the Closet Greenhouse Gas
It is flatulated, it is belched, it emanates from excrement and urine, and there is an awful lot of it being produced every day by over six billion humans and about as many farm animals – not counting fowl. While the world is pointing its wavering finger at carbon dioxide as the chief culprit,... Read More...
Can Bovine Burp Research Slow Global Warming?
Apparently, one quarter of all climate changing emissions generated by activities of the human race come from the farming of animals, sheep, cows, pigs et al -- but more from their burps than their farts. Read More...
Saving a Mountain for $3.25 a Month
Would you pay $3.25 more a month for your electricity, if you knew that by doing that you would prevent any more mountains from being removed to mine their coal? The people who are fighting to keep coal companies from removing Blair Mountain in West Virginia would sure like to hear that you would.... Read More...
Little Boxes, Big Waste of Energy
It looks like a clock that's just giving you the time of night, but actually it's a vampire sucking $3 BILLION dollars as well as tons of electricity and fuel while you're sleeping or at work. Your cable box is more costly than you ever dreamed. Read More...
India Leaves U.S. in Its Own Cloud of Smoke
A truly green idea whose time has come: India is putting a small tax on coal to fund green energy. Meanwhile, back at the U.S., we continue to tax the middle class to fund fossil fuels with massive subsidies. Read More...
Obama vs Obama on the Environment: It’s a Draw!
The Obama administration has made some notable moves on improving the environment, but it has also made some serious concessions to industrial and political opponents who claim that environmental regulations are costing jobs. So the best that can be said about the Obama’s pros and cons on the environment is: it’s a draw! Some... Read More...