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Saving Grace

A government-led program to encourage energy efficiency could reduce growth in electricity demand by 20 to 47 percent in the U.S., according to three-year report by the Energy Department’s five […]

Riding Alone in My Automobile

The average American is spending about 36 hours a year in traffic, up from 11 hours in 1982, according to a study released today by the Texas Transportation Institute at […]

Royal, Copenhagen

Officials in Copenhagen, Denmark, helped to inaugurate the world’s largest offshore windmill park this month. The park has a capacity of 40 megawatts of electricity — four times more than […]

My Mother's Left Foot

Michelle Long, Transparency Center

Michelle Long recently cofounded the Transparency Center, a nonprofit organization focused on facilitating transparent, stakeholder-inclusive models of trade. Sunday, 6 May 2001 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Hello. Welcome to my world […]

Prez and the New Power Generation

President Bush launched a two-week campaign yesterday to prepare the country for the recommendations of the secretive White House energy task force. Bush said, “What people need to hear loud […]

Birdland?

Some of the most popular songbirds in the U.K. are being sighted much less frequently, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said yesterday. A survey carried out by […]

The 2 Percent Solution

Ford said yesterday that a team of top executives would begin looking at ways to reduce the company’s greenhouse gas emissions. Ford’s second-annual corporate citizenship report estimated that its vehicles […]

Whassup? … True, True

More than a dozen environmental groups sued the federal government yesterday, saying its plan to manage hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest fails to provide […]

Think Globally, Log Locally

The Bush administration said last night that it will let stand President Clinton’s rule to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 millions acres of national forestland. Sort of. It seems […]