GE is buying Volts. Chevy Volts, that is. Yes, the energy giant is jumping into electric cars. In a move that seems fitting, if admittedly self-serving, GE – proud owner of one of the world’s largest vehicle fleets – has announced they will purchase 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015. They’ll start with an initial purchase [...]

Have you noticed a little more pain at the pump this week? I sure did – I had to pay $2.69 a gallon for gas yesterday. And that was at the cheap-o place. Yikes! CNN is reporting today that gas prices nationwide jumped 8 cents a gallon compared to two weeks ago. The folks at [...]

From the Department of Silver Linings: Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort seas are safe, at least for the moment. And Virginia’s offshore lease appears to be, well, dead in the water. Thanks, BP! In the Obama administration’s most decisive policy response yet to the BP oil spill, today Barack Obama delayed or canceled deepwater offshore oil [...]

I figured I’d regret giving BP credit for its oil spill response. Daniel Gross catalogs BP bumbling.

Thinking about solar panels for your roof, but not sure about the cost? Use Google Earth to suss out your home’s solar energy footprint. RoofRay.com zeroes in on your rooftop via Google Earth to analyze your roof’s sunlight potential and estimate your solar ROI: how much would solar panels cost you, and how much could [...]

The THINK electric car company just received a $40 million “battery charge” – an equity investment designed to help the company increase product development and launch in the United States. The Norwegian automaker plans to start selling the THINK City EV in the US in 2010 and will begin manufacturing the vehicle in Elkhart, Indiana, [...]

CNN has a good description of why the dome failed to cap BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill: methane hydrates. So what’s next?

Over the last few years, BP, the petroleum company formerly known as British Petroleum, has been in a mad rush to re-brand themselves, launching the disingenuous “Beyond Petroleum” campaign and making big statements about “alternative energy” – which, in their very generous definition, includes natural gas. They even change the color of all their stations [...]

Amtrak has thrown us enviros an eco-curveball. The rail operator recently announced the nation’s first biofuel-powered locomotive on its line from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Fort Worth, Texas. Awesome! The catch? The biodiesel feedstock is beef tallow. Of course we want to support biodiesel efforts that have real benefits in reduced emissions of carbon dioxide [...]

Climate change isn’t coming, folks – it’s already here. So says the EPA in an 80-page report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States, announced yesterday. “Climate change is a very real problem with impacts that are already being seen,” said Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. According to the [...]

Shopping. We all do it. We all buy stuff we need, stuff we want, and some stuff that, honestly, we could probably do without. But it’s a fact of life, we live in a dispersed and increasingly global economy, and shopping isn’t going away. And all that stuff we buy impacts the planet. So what [...]

So you want to buy green, but you don’t know what to look for? It’s true; the array of “green” claims is dizzying, and it can be hard to cut through the green marketing hype to make truly informed sustainable shopping choices. Don’t become a victim of eco-stress! Use these six common-sense guidelines to help [...]