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Desperate enough to contemplate geo-engineering

[I think that as a climate-saving strategy geo-engineering is somewhere between a dead end and a hoax — why would you choose chemotherapy that might make you sicker if your […]

RGGI auction: CO2 trading at $3 per ton

The RGGI held its second auction for carbon allowances on Wednesday. As noted on the RGGI website: States will sell emission allowances through auctions and invest proceeds in consumer benefits: […]

A tool for the green-collar recovery

In “Retrofits for All,” I described an ingenious plan for extending retrofits to whole neighborhoods of energy-wasting buildings. Today, I want to take another look at one piece of that […]

Friday music blogging: Stephen Colbert

In an age of commodified holidays, only irony can protect that small core of genuine feeling from the depredations of a culture that seeks at every turn to exploit it. […]

Arctic Research Center: Underwater permafrost is thawing and releasing methane

University of Alaska, Fairbanks scientists reported the alarming news at the AGU meeting: A team led by International Arctic Research Center scientist Igor Semiletov has found data to suggest that […]

Kunstler’s tips to prepare for a post-oil society

This post by James Kunstler, “10 Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society,” is a little old, but still timely, as the economy is in the midst of its first […]

R.I.S.E. rocks in new socially conscious live album

Their underground campaign classic — "Booties for Obama" — notwithstanding, the new live album released this week by the Atlanta sister duo R.I.S.E. (formerly known as Rising Appalachia) just might […]

Solar’s bright ideas for the green stimulus package

Carrying on one of the most annoying campaign memes (and boy is that bar high) into current policy discussions, the New York Times published an article that begins with the […]

Where will the money for public investment come from?

As I said the other day, I’m going to be asking a few questions about cap-and-dividend. Today’s question is about public investment. As people around here have heard a million […]

Two trillion tons of land ice lost since 2003, rate of Greenland summer ice-loss triples 2007 record

The AP reports on new data to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union: More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and […]