To remain competitive in today's business climate, employers must constantly build and enhance the skills of their employees. ...more

March 8, 2009

The 140 full-time jobs and hundreds of construction jobs created in Highlands County to build a cellulose ethanol plant already are known, but now a big player is stepping up. ...more

February 20, 2009

Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of scientific knowledge available online, these hobbyists are trying to create new life forms through genetic engineering - a field long dominated by Ph.D.s toiling in university and corporate laboratories. ...more

December 26, 2008

Former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge was widely ridiculed for color-coding the nation's terror-alert status. The Obama administration wants to color-code the economy. ...more

December 10, 2008

How will Florida be judged in the battle against climate change? For many, it will hinge on what state regulators and legislators do with a proposal to generate more electricity from renewable resources. ...more

November 9, 2008

How will Florida be judged in the battle against climate change? For many, that will hinge on our state regulators and legislators. ...more

October 31, 2008

The Tampa Port Authority board today approved the transfer of a lease option from Port Sutton Envirofuels, a Bay area company that intended to build an ethanol plant at the port, to GreenHunter Energy Inc of Houston, which intends to build a biodiesel fuel plant. ...more

October 21, 2008

As investors pour more greenbacks into green technology, recent venture-capital investments suggest that the market may be maturing. ...more

September 9, 2008

Pope Benedict XVI, like many world leaders, has spoken passionately about the urgent need to protect the planet from climate catastrophe. But unlike his fellow heads of state, the pontiff has actually created a carbon-neutral economy - and done it inexpensively and quickly. ...more

July 20, 2008

The current global energy-food crisis is, understandably, a pocketbook issue in America. But when you come to Egypt, you see how, in a society where so many more people live close to the edge, food and fuel prices could become enormously destabilizing. If these prices keep soaring, food and fuel could reshape politics around the developing world as much as nationalism or communism did in their days. ...more

June 17, 2008