Walt Disney and its parks are going green. ...more

March 9, 2009

Chinese officials and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed Saturday to step up their cooperation on the global economic crisis and climate change, while treading carefully around the human rights issues that often have strained the U.S. relationship with Beijing. ...more

February 22, 2009

EPA administrator Lisa Jackson says the agency is moving toward regulating the gases blamed for global warming. ...more

February 17, 2009

President Barack Obama took aim Monday at the lofty but long elusive goal of making the nation more energy independent, ordering reviews that could lead to tougher auto emission standards in states and higher pressure on automakers to produce more fuel-efficient cars. The president: ...more

January 27, 2009

Community members working to devise a vision for the area south of the Little Manatee River may want to think about new, greener ways of orchestrating their vision. ...more

January 21, 2009

The Cabinet nominated by President-elect Barack Obama is a largely centrist and pragmatic collection of politicians and technocrats without a pronounced ideological bent. Liberals are satisfied but not delighted. Conservatives say the nominees aren't as leftist as they had feared. Powerful interest groups with conflicting agendas are appeased. ...more

January 11, 2009

MIAMI (AP) - Nobody loves biomass. When talk turns to global warming and the green movement, it's hardly ever mentioned. Biomass can be garbage (literally) or wood chips or sugar-cane remnants or grass. ...more

January 4, 2009

It takes some rather complicated math to determine how much pollution and environmental impact is created by a Super Bowl and all its trappings. ...more

December 15, 2008

Florida is in a painful pause, as is most of the world. I suggest that we view this period, to the extent that we can, as not as being in the middle of a bad accident on the way to the emergency room, but allow ourselves to be in a sunny convalescence, planning for our healthful future. ...more

December 14, 2008

The National Football League, as part of what it calls "the greening of Super Bowl XLIII," is providing mangroves for plantings in the Terra Ceia Ecosystem Restoration Area near the Manatee County line and native trees at the McKay Creek Greenway in Pinellas County. ...more

December 9, 2008