Signs of Recovery While it will only be with years of hindsight that we can determine the total environmental impact of the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, there are encouraging signs that the environmental devastation will be less severe than many had feared. Today a reader sent me ...

Last December, I received an intriguing request from the Public Relations Director at the world's largest ethanol producer. Nathan Schock asked if I would be interested in posing a video question that would be answered by POET CEO Jeff Broin. He said that any topic was fair game, except ...

I have been asked to submit a video question on ethanol policy that will be potentially answered in a video blog by someone who is very well-known in the energy business. I will keep the details quiet for now, including the question I did submit. (I thought I would be ...

With the newly created Paramount Energy Solutions, Paramount Equity and SolarCity plan on providing inexpensive solar systems.

What a vicious chain of events our politicians have set into motion. It just continues to worsen.It started out innocently enough. Oil prices were climbing. Our energy production was shifting to an ever greater extent to countries that are hostile to the U.S.So, Step 1 is ...

(Also, a Barack Obama discussion in the comments following this essay).The Guardian has just published a list of 50 people who may save us all from "stranded polar bears, melting glaciers, dried-out rivers and flooding on a horrific scale." Some of the names certainly belong on the list, ...

"We stand, in most places on earth, only six inches from desolation, for that is the thickness of the topsoil layer upon which the entire life of the planet depends." R. Neil Sampson in Farmland or Wasteland: A Time to Choose...