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Yesterday we read the sad news that the Obama administration has approved an $8 billion loan for the construction of two new power plants in Georgia, which is by far the worst violation of our trust the White House has pulled in the last year or so. Being staunchly anti-nuclear, we’re seriously contemplating moving to [...]

Maybe if U.S. currency wasn’t green, the whole concept of the “green revolution” and corporate “greenwashing” wouldn’t sound like such a disgusting corruption of vital ideals in the name of marketing. Here we are, though, in a country full of eager green buyers with disappearing green bills, so it’s not surprising that some extremely brown [...]

Whenever we get into an argument with someone about the fundamental oxymoron of the phrase “clean coal,” we try to show them the Coen Brothers’ recent parody infomercial on the matter. If the conversation isn’t occuring near a computer or an iPhone though, we just start to flail wildly in a vain attempt at conveying [...]

The slow, painful death of the airline industry spells great things for rail networks everywhere (even the one just proposed in California). No better time, then, to follow the green transporters at TreeHugger on a tour of the latest innovations in high-speed trains. So throw away that frequent flyer card, and get a glimpse of [...]