The Sierra Club and its clean energy allies in Nevada won twin victories when two proposed coal plants in the state were scrapped in the last month. On February 9, a three-year Sierra Club campaign concluded successfully when NV Energy called off plans to construct the Ely En...

Metro: A "clean energy crunch" may come hard on the heels of the credit crunch as the impact of recession hits attempts to hold back global warming, say experts. World economic growth is no longer on track to avert the worst impact of climate change, according to new research. Reduced carb...

Finding the capital necessary to take what looks like a great product from the 'garage' or university lab to the marketplace is difficult during the best of times. In today's environment, clean energy and technology entrepreneurs could probably identify even more with Tantalus, the character from Gr...

Hong Kong tycoon Stanley Ho is most famous in business for his vast and infamous casino empire and unofficial title as one of Asia’s richest people (his estimated US$8 billion net worth earned him the 113th rank in Forbes’ 2007 list of “the World’s Billionaires�). Might news of his recent ...

    At yesterday's Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on the spill of more than 1 billion gallons of coal ash from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Eastern Tennessee, CEO Tom Kilgore faced hard questions - and criticism for his lack of responses. &nb...

URL: Cuba Gets Green Cred November 14, 2008—Cuba is the only country that meets the criteria for sustainable development from the conservation group WWF. to see the video click the title - it will carry you to a great 3 min national geographic video of Cubas’ Green Movement and the Saving of...

The Guardian has leaked a "secret" World Bank report that breaks the news to the Illuminated Gnomes that turning food stocks into fuel caused the price of food to go up. Gee, ya think? Corn based ethanol has long been called "Liquid Pork" and has been pushed by politicians who are owned and operated...

CapX2020 project will help put more wind energy on the wires. Public hearings on an ambitious plan to build new transmission lines throughout Minnesota will begin next week. The CapX2020 plan is the first major expansion of the state’s high voltage transmission system in 25 years. Several environm...

Pick your poison: Oil. Coal. Nuclear energy. Or choose renewable energy, instead. That was S. David Freeman's refrain heard throughout the animated night at Armand Hammer Museum where words flew about our energy problems and solutions. Mr. Freeman's common sense and decades of energy experience deba...

This picture of Brazil cutting rain forest for fuel is too powerful to not share. It’s from this week’s cover story in TIME, The Clean Energy Scam. Check out the story. It reinforces the extra due diligence that needs to be paid to anything relating to green business, the environment and...