With so many different players in the Ontario energy game, its hard to believe they all play by the same set of rules. This week on the show, we’ll speak with Bruce Cox, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada,... read more...

I had a chance to absorb some of the elements of Ontario’s Green Energy Act and, despite the many programs and policies that still need to flow from it over the coming months — assuming it passes, which is likely — I think it’s a progressive document. Most media outlets have ...

Reuters: The U.S. renewable energy sector, which has been hit hard by the banking crisis, will get a new lifeline from the economic stimulus package that is expected to pass the U.S. Congress on Friday. The flow of new wind and solar projects has slowed to a dribble in the past few months, forcing s...

Moving the country towards renewable power when coal remains a cheap fuel source has been a challenge, one that a number of states are addressing by setting hard targets for their utilities. Two of the states that will require their utilities to provide a fixed percentage of renewable power in the n...

Thinking big can be a blessing or a curse. In the case of green power generation, big ideas can be hard to translate into workable plans because we have so little experience with scaled-up projects.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

It’s hard to ignore the massive growth of the wind industry over the past decade, but a German watchdog group says that’s just what the International Energy Agency has been doing. The IEA is an intergovernmental organization that acts as an energy policy adviser to most major governments...

It's natural to expect a trip to Antarctica to be like visiting a huge block of ice, but Lynda Joy Smith discovered that green isn't too hard to find near the bottom of the earth....

The hopes and dreams of pro-environment partisans all over America and the world are much closer to fulfillment, now that president-elect Barack Obama has kept his promises and assembled one hell of a green ......

Environmentalists and climate change activists are understandably delighted. Consider this: For eight years the United States has boasted an Energy Department that for all intents and purposes was a subsidiary of the U.S. oil industry. Now, should he be confirmed, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who...

Just now your editors were having a little talky about our secret boyfriend, the New York Times’ token cross-dressing felcher Bill Kristol. “His column is boring and moderate this week,” said our Jim Newell. “He probably has some solid shit-eating lines, though.” And WA...