photo via flickr In a surprising but welcome move, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers today sent a letter to House and Senate leadership stating its opposition to Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s efforts to take away the EPA’s ability to regulate... 

Photo via Pilar Olivares / Reuters Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi loves to ride the waves–so much so, in fact, that he’s made it his mission to share the experience with different animals he comes across. Over the years, Pianezzi has become... 

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A couple days ago, I wrote about the 10th National Bike Summit in Washington, DC, and yesterday LLoyd wrote about Here is the original:  Ray LaHood’s Tabletop Speech at the National Bike Summit  Read More →

Image credit: Good It’s in bread and pasta, cookies and muffins—indeed, it’s in most of the food we eat—but if you’re not careful, it’s easy to forget about flour. That, Good tells us , would be a mistake…. Read... 

Photo via: WikiVisual . Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery’s 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. About a year ago the Chief Scientist at The Organic Center (a national organization for which... 

Photo: Digital Lumens A Bright Idea for the Lighting Industry According to the US Department of Energy, lighting represents about 12% of energy consumption for residential buildings and 25% for commercial ones (presumably because commercial buildings... 

Britain’s independent watchdog agency, the Advertising Standards Association, has decided it is. The ad, which features a a father reading a bedtime story to his daughter about the the impacts of climate change, caused a stir when it was first... 

Photo via Atro City News There’s one major way that it feasibly could–and that’s if the passage of a health care bill causes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to jump ship on energy reform efforts. Josh Nelson grapples with this possibility... 

States that could, in the future, attract manufacturing jobs using low reliance on coal as a marketing tool. Image credit: J.Laumer, with USEIA data. A few days ago I asserted that total coal consumption per state is a more useful metric than coal dependency...