Climate Climate & Energy

Gas 'n' Uh-oh

40 percent — petroleum’s share of global energy consumed in 1998 $246 — amount spent by the author on gasoline to drive a 1987 Honda Accord 5,700 miles on a […]

Planting Time on the Windmill Farm

Now's the time to make the big leap to clean energy

For the burgeoning clean energy industry, these are heady times. Having spent most of its years in uphill struggle, the industry has now climbed to the takeoff point. Wind and […]

Off-Off-Shore Drilling

Higher prices at the pumps are a good thing — really

That whining sound you hear is American consumers (formerly known as American citizens) fretting over the rising cost of gasoline. Pump and circumstance. The current national average price of gas […]

Notes on the Underground

The February issue of Scientific American tells of a new technology that makes me both rejoice and worry. It looks so great, so likely to relieve a massive environmental problem […]

I Remember Yesterday

In an Octopus's Garden

Me and My Shadow

Hot and Steamy

Geothermal power will get a boost today when U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announces a goal of generating as much as 10 percent of the West’s electricity from geothermal sources […]