Image credit: The WHO Farm When Michelle Obama first announced her White House garden , locavores everywhere rejoiced. Here was a highly symbolic, yet practical, indication of where the administration stood on sustainable agriculture. Yet while the First... 

Photo via Bay News 9 The $20 billion escrow fund that Obama negotiated with BP is now being finalized, and BP is preparing to deposit the first $3 billion into it. The fund will help pay for the many claims being filed by Gulf residents who have suffered... 

Lord Monckton confronted by youth climate activists during COP15, photo: Matthew McDermott . Poor Lord Monckton can’t seem to catch a break. Not only has he had one of his more popular climate change debunking presentations itself thoroughly debunked,... 

photo via flickr The Obama administration has been on the receiving end of a lot of heat lately, and deservedly so after it chose to let the climate bill whither on the vine. But lost in the shuffle are many of the other positive steps the administration... 

There are a lot of people who are enthusiastic about high-speed rail in the U.S., especially since Obama announced $8 billion in awards for high-speed rail projects. On the other hand, there are a lot of skeptical people who think high-speed rail isn’t... 

Photo via avlxyz @ Flickr Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April, everyone from chef Tom Colicchio to President Barack Obama has come out to promise that Gulf Coast seafood is as safe and delicious as it ever was — and to remind the rest... 

The common zinnia flower may play a key role in transforming the U.S. from a country under siege from high risk fossil fuels, to a nation powered by cleaner, safer biofuels from renewable sources. Scientists working in collaboration from three national... 

The common zinnia flower may play a key role in transforming the U.S. from a country under siege from high risk fossil fuels, to a nation powered by cleaner, safer biofuels from renewable sources. Scientists working in collaboration from three national... 

Photo via Pax Communications If 97% of climate scientists are right , then history will judge present-day world leaders first and foremost on what they did to combat climate change once the plight was made clear. Take Barack Obama. 75 years from now,... 

Photo via A Green Living It’s kind of amazing to me the bad rap that the stimulus bill has gotten since its passage a year and a half ago — a recent poll found that something like only 13% of Americans felt it helped them. Of course, much...