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When innovative buildings pop up in the news, no one is ever surprised to hear that the next architectural wonder will be built in the UAE...
TWP is a non-profit organization based in Fort Collins, Colorado with a mission to improve people's lives by helping communities to protect...
As we quite rightfully expose and attempt to rid our society of corruption in the corporate and financial sectors, and as we support...
Almost ten years ago, Time Magazine proclaimed Paul Watson as one of the major environmental heroes of the 20th century. During the 1970s...
On nearly the eve of the new year, a couple of noted industry observers have already gone public with their greentech predictions for 2009...
When it comes to testing for contaminants-whether in your lab, production facility, or even in your own body-nothing is more excruciating...
Oil and water do mix - all too often. And they're not so easy to separate. Just ask the research scientists trying to develop...
Washington Post correspondant Juliet Eilperin, in her 12-26-08 report entitled "New climate change estimates more pessimistic," dutifully...
An interview with Dr. David Mills, Chief Scientific Officer and Founder of Ausra:
Dr. David Mills has worked in the alternative energy...
Sitting on a beach is the last thing most of us think about in the cold month of December, but it is an appealing escape. Beaches are the...
In the aftermath of the defeat of Proposition 7, the ambitious citizen's initiative that would have required California's utilities to...
Research teams at Clemson, UCLA and the University of Southampton in the UK are pioneering novel nanoscale sensors for detecting...
Venice floods more than one hundred times a year. At the beginning of this month, Venice was caught in another onslaught, as the sea level...
A recent comment on our report entitled "Ford Delivers Electric Vehicles" (written in April 2001 when USPS tried out a fleet of 400 EVs)...
Our latest interactive spreadsheet "Cost to Mitigate CO2" is an attempt to present the financial implications of precipitously moving to a...
For years engineers and utilities have been waxing on and on about the future of the utility grid and the economic importance of having a...
The attention some of the electric automobile designs have attracted over the past few years has tended to take the focus away from bikes...
One of the keys to achieving the next step in commercializing renewable transportation fuels is to have a refining technology that can...
Let's face it. The majority of tech companies have become obsessed with innovation and determined to use it whenever possible in...
40 percent of the world is dealing with a water shortage. This means that over 2 billion people have to survive in barren and often...
The Indian government has welcomed biofuels with open arms. Faced with a rapidly growing economy, the world's second-largest population and...
Absent a rigorous examination of statistics, meaningful dialogue about environmental issues is impossible. This is particularly challenging...
An apartment with a view is coveted property. After a hard day at work, sitting down in front of a panoramic window while sipping a glass of...
Rugged microbes equipped with a unique set of survival skills find high-temperature and acidic conditions a welcome home. And scientists...
The essense of New Suburbanism is to support a clean, but wider human footprint - which is anathema to much of conventional...
The fate of GM, Chrysler and Ford hang in the balance, with widely varying sentiments regarding what can be done, if anything. Both a...
Earlier this month heralded the formal launch of "Carbon Information Management" (CIM) software from Planet Metrics, a Northern California...
With renewable energy sources like wind and solar constantly on hand, it is no wonder that everyone wants to harness this energy with...
Twenty-five years ago, along with another young journalist, I coauthored a book called California, Inc. about our adopted home state. The...
The drinking-water pipe network in the United States extends more than 700,000 miles -- four times the length of the national highway...
Nobody likes a dirty workspace, but the chemicals splashed onto counters, mirrors and walls often leave a toxic residue that can cause more...
Mid-level ethanol blends such as E12, E15, E20 and even as high as E40 have garnered a lot of attention lately. Mainly because ethanol...
Earlier this year, on October 27th, Ausra commissioned their first solar thermal pilot plant, a 5.0 megawatt facility located in Kimberlina...
The problem for scientists and engineers has been that in order to tune a catalyst to do what is desired, you need to know how it adapts...
It is difficult to overstate the pride and the hope that accompanies the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States. As...
How epic has this correction been? The answer is worse than the 1987 programmatic crash (S&P -32%) but not as bad, to-date, as the 1973...
Solar panels have been the topic of thousands of articles over the past couple of years. It seems like everyone is going pro-solar, but...
Global warming is seen everywhere as one of the most important issues. From the EU to the G8, leaders trip over one another to affirm their...
With many millions - if not billions - around the world believing today's U.S. Presidential election could be the dawn of a new age of...
Imagine trekking through the snow in one of the most remote places in the world. Wind whips around your whole body. Your fingers and toes...
As the winds of change blow through America on this historic election day, here's an update on wind energy. The last two years have seen an...
Has global warming alarm become the goal rather than the result of scientific research? Is climate science really designed to answer...
Today the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), along with the Ethanol Promotion & Information Council (EPIC) presented a webinar that...
Few plants show up on the table in as many forms as the soybean. This hairy legume has been an important component of various foods and...
It is difficult to put both sides of any initiative into a few words and capture all the nuances, but here are some observations for...
We have written about unions dozens of times, and have consistently acknowleged the contributions unions have made. But over the past fifty...
Last week EcoWorld posted a lengthy explanation as to why we endorse John McCain for President. We were so careful and so reasoned that...
Are the Studies We Rely On Reliable?
We discovered "The Antiplanner," Randall O'Toole, a few months ago, and ever since we have been...
It is always interesting to read the ballot in California when there are a dozen or more citizen's initiatives. Californians, despite...
Concentrated acid hydrolysis will transform virtually any cellulosic feed into fermentable sugars. BlueFire Ethanol, located in Irvine...
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