Accidents on Oil Rigs? Business as Usual

by Jason Mark – September 2, 2010

My email accounts, Twitter feeds, and RSS alerts have been blowing up all morning with the news that an offshore oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded earlier today. Thirteen workers were evacuated off the platform, which is operated by…
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Solar Panels: The Next eWaste?

by Erica Gies – September 2, 2010

In recent years the electronics industry has gained notoriety for creating an endless stream of disposable products that make their way at life’s end to developing countries, where poor people without safety gear cut and burn out valuable materials, spilling contaminants into…
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Choose Your Friends Wisely

Radical eco-activist imprisoned for “friending” Mike Roselle

by Adam Federman – August 31, 2010

For years, Rod Coronado was the unofficial bad boy of the radical environmental movement. As a teenager he cut his teeth with the now well known Sea Shepherd Society and, in 1986, participated in a risky act of eco-sabotage: taking aim at…
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Big Banks Pull Away from Dirty Businesses

Good News Shows Potential for Progress Outside of Washington

by Jason Mark – August 31, 2010

Today’s New York Times has a front page story delivering some sorely needed good news: Many of the world’s biggest banks — including giants like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Credit Suisse, and HSBC — are voluntarily reducing their investments in environmentally…
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Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy

By Tom Rooney, CEO of SPG Solar

by GuestBlogger – August 31, 2010

Conservatives, take a breath. Let’s talk about energy. And why so many conservatives are so wrong — so liberal, even — on wind and solar energy. Let’s start with a recent editorial from the home of ‘free markets and free people,” the…
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In Russia, A Victory For Civil Society

Khimki Highway Construction On Hold

by Adam Federman – August 27, 2010

A long running battle over the construction of a highway through Moscow’s Khimki forest has taken a surprising turn. Earlier this week I wrote about the broad based campaign to save one of Moscow’s few remaining green belts and old growth oak…
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Where’s the Deepwater Horizon Oil?

Microbes are busy, and oil is dispersed but far from gone

by Elizabeth Grossman – August 25, 2010

The BP/Deepwater Horizon well is now capped but it will be sometime before we understand where the nearly 5 million barrels of oil that gushed from the ruptured well have gone. On August 2nd, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released…
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