Former Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday that Americans must abandon fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the wind and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts. ...more

July 18, 2008

The 2008 presidential campaign has brought to the mainstream a phrase that environmentalists have invoked for years: "green-collar jobs." ...more

June 27, 2008

Since Lorne DeWitt apparently considers the bulk of the scientific community to be "environ-whackos," he probably doesn't really want an answer to his question as to why it was so cold in the 1940s, given global warming. But here's one anyway. ...more

June 20, 2008

Does the new bio-fuel plant they want to build in Venus use magic to turn sweet sorghum into ethanol? According to Bradley Krohn, this proposed plant will discharge "zero waste," make no noise, have no odor, use zero fossil fuels, and won't even discharge effluent from the bathrooms. Beware, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. ...more

February 14, 2008

President Bush has called us a nation addicted to oil. If he looked at our local utility, he would cite it as a company radically addicted to coal and natural gas. ...more

December 10, 2007

The energy bill just passed by the U.S. House is far from perfect, but it would give the nation a hearty push toward energy conservation, a push Congress has avoided for too long. ...more

December 10, 2007

We're hearing and reading the usual hand-wringer stories about prospects for the holiday shopping season. Despite all the current worries, we're sure everything will be OK. ...more

November 24, 2007

The United States appears poised to act soon on global warming. Hopefully, Congress will craft policies that motivate a truly international solution rather than make the problem worse, hurt the economy, and create windfall profits for some regulated industries. ...more

November 5, 2007

Commuters may have noticed a bright yellow 17-foot by 10-foot banner off the Howard Frankland Bridge on the way to work. It's pretty hard to miss. The Green Armada and Environmental Defense have launched the campaign to help get the word out on a hot-button issue - the choices Americans, especially Floridians, need to make on global warming. ...more

October 10, 2007