Scientists are skeptical. Planners are hopeful. The Dutch are pragmatic. Witold Rybczynski for Slate View full entry

President-elect Barack Obama has selected his top energy and environmental advisers, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as Energy Secretary. NYT | prev. 1 | 2 View full entry

Al Gore on the future of energy. Interview with Fareed Zakaria. "We cannot allow an illusion to be the basis of a strategy for human survival."Newsweek View full entry

The NYT's Green Inc. blog discusses the financial value of building green. View full entry

NYTimes Al issues a call to arms with his five-part plan to repower America with a commitment to producing 100 percent of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years. #4 is a job creation program for architects. Fourth, we should embark on a nationwide effort to retrofit buildings... View full entry

With energy prices rising and climate change becoming an increasing concern, many people in the south-west of France are turning towards alternative technologies to heat their homes. But some of these technologies depend upon a much older and more mystical profession. bbc View full entry

CNN's Planet in Peril series presents a shocking audio slideshow showing the environmental impact from China's recent economic boom. View full entry

The dance floor at Watt harvests the energy generated by dancers and transforms it into electricity. NYT View full entry

New York City Transit officials unveiled a new behemoth double-decker bus today that will cruise city streets in a 30-day trial run. The two-story vehicles have not been in wide use for everyday public transit since 1953. Beginning on Thursday, the 13-foot-tall, 45-foot-long, 81-seat bus will... View full entry

Move over Masdar, there is a new sustainable city in the works... By the genius behind the Eden Project, the Seawater Greenhouse and other milestones of sustainable design - exploration architecture might have saved the planet... more on treehugger View full entry

State regulators approved a deal on Wednesday that will allow the construction of hundreds of new wind turbines in New York, doubling the amount of wind power capacity within a few years. NYT | prev. View full entry

Michael Braungart defends his Cradle to Cradle theory – in terms of the defense of the environment – against Al Gore. Abitare View full entry

Expansive dreams about renewable energy, like Al Gore’s hope of replacing all fossil fuels in a decade, are bumping up against the reality of a power grid that cannot handle the new demands. NYT View full entry

Interviews with architects, engineers and energy experts on Wednesday suggest that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to place wind turbines atop the city’s skyscrapers and bridges, as well as off the coastline of Queens and Brooklyn, would be complicated and expensive and barely... View full entry

In a plan that would drastically remake New York City’s skyline and shores, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to put wind turbines on the city’s bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a wide-ranging push to develop renewable energy. NYT | WNYC View full entry