As global demand soars and prices rise, energy companies are going to the ends of the earth to find new supplies. But as the industry extends its reach, the quest is becoming more arduous. NYT | Map | Graphic | Video View full entry
Slate explores he hidden costs of heading to the stadium. View full entry
Get a job in solar energy! This Newsweek article discusses how the search for renewable-energy sources is making clean-tech jobs hot, and some are popping up in unexpected places... like Toledo, OH. View full entry
The ethanol boom of recent years - which spurred a frenzy of distillery construction, record corn prices, rising food prices and hopes of a new future for rural America - may be fading. NYTimes View full entry
One Molecule Could Cure Our Addiction to Oil The Formula: From Grass to Gas The Prescription: Switching to Renewables The Alternatives: 4 Technologies on the Brink View full entry
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened a meeting of world leaders on climate change today, stating that the scientific evidence of its global impact was sound and the moment to act was now. NYT | Meanwhile, President Bush is in town, but will Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming. View full entry
The bucks, it seems, have beaten the birds. Donald Trump’s ambition to build the world’s greatest golf resort on conserved coastline north of Aberdeen has been recommended for approval on the grounds that the social and economic advantages outweigh the environmental drawbacks... View full entry
Report Released at US Mayors’ Sundance Summit on Global Warming... SUNDANCE, UTAH – A coastal impact study issued today by Architecture 2030 makes clear that without a moratorium on coal, the United States will be unable to avert the dangerous impacts of climate change. Ed Mazria... View full entry
LAtimes op-eds against urban heat islands in the increasingly dense City of Angeles. Change in the building codes and laws are on the horizon. In a recent lawsuit, state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown targeted sprawl in San Bernardino County as a generator of global warming emissions. The county settled... View full entry
Solar panels, wind turbines part of Belgian design to have minimal impact on climate. Globe & Mail View full entry
Is there a real scale to measure the growth of economic progress? Recently the Chinese government has endeavored to create a working model for a national "Green GDP" where the gross domestic product is subtracted from the cost of pollution--thus creating a potential measure of the impact of their... View full entry
Lance Hosey, a director at William McDonough + Partners, shares some thoughts on eco-friendly urbanism, and makes a [brief] case for the metropolis. Architect Magazine View full entry
In the face of potential geographically changing, climate change UK's The Guardian looks at houseboats as possible housing for the future... "He sees in the essential mobility of houseboats the potential for "a completely groundbreaking urbanity, where public squares, cinemas and playgrounds"... View full entry
“A resilient system is adaptable and diverse. It has some redundancy built in. A resilient perspective acknowledges that change is constant and prediction difficult in a world that is complex and dynamic. It understands that when you manipulate the individual pieces of a system, you change... View full entry
“Ways of minimizing environmental damage from the fences could include the creation of cross-border bridge areas so that ecosystems remain connected and "green corridors" of wilderness without roads that would be less attractive to smugglers, according to a report released Monday and... View full entry
