Obama’s Nobel prize-winning green guru and US Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu claims that painting your roof white can help reduce global warming significantly.   Speaking yesterday from London prior to a conference on climate change, Dr. Chu said that making the planet's roofs and pavement a lighter color could result in the ...

Last week MIT hosted a panel of nuclear power industry experts to address nuclear waste recycling and disposal options. Considered by many analysts to be the chief barrier to building a new generation of nuclear power plants, the debate around what to do with high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants continues to be the industry’s ...

In December, world leaders will converge on Copenhagen to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. Leading up to the new agreement governing global action on climate change, the World Business Summit on Climate Change kicked off yesterday in Copenhagen to bring together business and science leaders for a three-day ...

Some encouraging statistics emerged from U.S. environmental data recently, as carbon dioxide emissions related to energy use dropped 2.8 percent for the year 2008. If the estimate, released by the Energy Information Administration, is accurate, it would represent the single largest annual decline in carbon dioxide output since 1982. Analysts ...

If you haven’t heard about Copenhagen 2009, listen up. In December of this year, global minds will meet in Copenhagen to make an action plan to address climate change for when the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012. The conference will be the latest in the annual UN meetings that stem from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio; the original summit that ...

The UNEP's (United Nations Environmental Programme) World Environment Day is just around the corner on June 5 - after recent enviro days like Earth Week, Earth Day and Bike Week, what's World Environment Day (WED) all about? The theme for WED 2009 is 'Your Planet Needs You - UNite to Combat Climate Change', and provides the perfect lead up to ...

As Bike Week comes to a close, we hope you had a chance to reflect on why biking is better for you and the planet than driving your car.   If there was any doubt about how much cars, gas and commuting suck, check out MyCommuteSucks.org where people from across the country are banding together to rant about driving, and taking action ...

A report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) released on Wednesday claims that our addiction to electronics is contributing more to the energy crisis than previously understood. According to the IEA press release, the rising global demand for electronic gadgets has led to a 7% increase in the world's electricity consumption each year ...

It's official. The United States government has finally put its money where its mouth is by backing organic farming. $50 million in federal funding has been set aside to teach sustainable farming skills like natural nutrient management, crop rotation and organic pest control to farmers who want to make the switch from traditional to organic ...

Here’s a statistic most people aren’t aware of: the largest percentage of urban greenhouse gas emissions come from the operation of residential and commercial buildings. Not cars, not garbage, not industry – buildings. With outdated insulation, heating, cooling and energy use, most buildings are simply inefficient by today’s green standards. In ...