Photo via JWGA Inc Sometimes the waterway is both greener and faster than the highway. Though ferries are bigger than cars and usually use more fuel, they can carry hundreds of people and cars at one time. Plus, they are also often the shortest route... 

Photo: Courtesy of Greenpeace Argentina. Some may argue that Greenpeace has its twisted ways, but sometimes they just nail it. In Argentina, last year there was a huge controversy over a used batteries recycling program by the Buenos Aires government:... 

Ahead of its upcoming report Fossil Foolishness: Utah’s Pursuit of Tar Sands and Oil Shale Western Resource Advocates has produced the above short video detailing, as you might imagine from the title, why even though it may be … Read the full... 

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photo: Jonathan McIntosh via flickr With all the increased attention Canada’s tar sands projects have been getting–both in terms of environmental impact and distributing them through pipeline into the United States–it’s not surprising... 

Image credit: M. D. Vaden of Oregon Deep in the forests of northern California is a grove of trees unlike any other in the world. Within only a few acres lies an incredible density of old-growth redwood trees—including many of the world’s... 

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch The University of Notre Dame is taking the use of e-readers in classrooms seriously, embarking on a one year study of how the devices integrate into classrooms. The first course to have students use an iPad instead of any text... 

Forget the Thrilla in Manilla , California is the epicenter of the fight of the century, at least when it comes down to the battle between fossil fuels and clean energy tech . A new coalition of California clean tech companies, labor organizations, community... 

Image credit: Amanda Friedman/ NRDC Some have been wondering whether Obama is really on the side of sustainable farming or industrial agriculture . Others, however, are busy wondering whether industrial agriculture really is sustainable farming after... 

One of the biggest misconceptions people have about solar is that it is just about to become so cheap that you better not get any now, because in a few years it will be much cheaper. A common belief is that an astounding technological breakthrough is...