TransAlta, the last operating coal-fired plant in the Pacific Northwest, is shutting down, but not until 2025 under an agreement between Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, TransAlta, state regulators and environmental groups.

On April 29, Gov. Gregoire signed legislation to systematically end coal-burning in the state.

The deal is a phased closure of the controversial 1,600-megawatt plant in [...]

In my opinion, their main difference is the following: The DOD is obsessed with energy and the MOD is fixated on CO2. However, both need to do a lot more on collecting, managing and presenting the data. (even though the MOD is ahead of the DOD when it comes to identifying where and how is [...]

Researchers at Michigan State University are giving Motor City executives something to squawk about, a new wave disk generator for hybrid cars that is twice as efficient as a traditional gasoline-powered engine.

According to Discovery News, “…researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, [...]

On January 10, 2011 I had talked about the F-Cell World Drive circling the globe in 125 days. The purpose of this 4 continent tour (Europe, America, Australia and Asia) was to show off the capabilities of the Mercedes B-Class F-Cell automobile plus discover interesting green subjects that need reporting along the way.

According to Daimler [...]

Imagine a nuclear reactor that runs on fuel that could power civilization for millennia; cannot melt down; resists weapons proliferation; can be built on a relatively small parcel of land; and produces little hazardous waste. It sounds like a good idea, and it was a well-tested reality in 1970 when it was abandoned for the [...]

A study that was put out just the other day mentions that there are 702 million hectares of land available for growing bio-fuels on the earth. In a completely different study it was found that plowing fields for producing crops would emit enormous levels of soil carbons. The primary soil carbon released is called nitrous [...]

If you externalize the costs of a business activity, it means other people pay the costs–environmental, social and otherwise–and you get the profits. It goes on all the time in extractive industries such as oil and natural gas and mining. And, it is also a natural strategy for manufacturers who dump their pollution into [...]

Sustainability is a big corporate buzzword lately but choosing the right set of sustainability standards is getting somewhat complicated. There are a variety of options available for companies seeking international responsibility codes and standards to guide their reporting and well, to brag about in CSRs.

Since 2000 the United Nations Global Compact has been a leading [...]