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When it comes to a love affair with a car, Americans want to know one thing – how fast can it go? That is why America is soon going to fall in love all over again, just like it did for the Mustang, the GTO, and the Shelby Cobra’s pedal but this time it will [...]

Between 1958 and 1968 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dug the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO)—pronounced as Mister Go. The outlet was a huge canal with an original bottom width of 500′ and a depth of 36′. It ...

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 1 p.m. EST Space is limited. Sign up now! Green Building Trends: Europe is the first definitive study of European green building design and construction. What can U.S. building professionals learn from their European counterparts...

Many families who dutifully recycle, take mass transit, and have a house full of compact fluorescent light bulbs, would say they’re doing their part to save the earth. ...

Then: Southern California burns, 2008 Even for the literal-minded, it was hard not to lump the conflagrations on Wall Street with those in Southern California. The meltdown of 401(k)s with the street signs at Sylmar...

Although the summer’s first tropical storm to make U.S. landfall, Claudette, avoided doing significant damage, we’re now in the midst of hurricane season. As...

Fresh off his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Island Press will host Robert Glennon for the next webinar in our ongoing series this September 3rd at 1PM EST...

Want to get really angry about health care and global warming? Not the ginned-up rage of the Obama-was-really-born-in-Kenya crowd, but an anger that fires you up to take action in the name of justice...

Today we watched the assembly and installation of the thirty-foot blades of a 100 KW wind turbine on the 10 acre campus of the Woods Hole Research Center on the southern coast of Cape Cod. It was the latest step in the construction of a campus that burns nothing and will, [...]

At a recent three-day workshop here in Vermont, I joined a visionary set of leaders, including Mary Evelyn Tucker, David Orr, and Larry Susskind, to help launch Solutions...

This past week the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale hosted the 3rd annual Conservation Finance Camp...

Today, hundreds of citizens are on the forefront of the climate movement; 20 years ago, in the summer of 1989, the fight against global warming had only two well-known spokespeople: Senator Al Gore and NASA Scientist Jim Hansen...

People sometimes ask me what they will learn by reading Heatstroke. Basically there are two key messages. One I’ve already highlighted in past blogs and in a recent op-ed. Simply put, the first message is this: we’ve got a problem. Gl...

The western United States is characterized by highly variable and seasonal rainfall patterns. To deal with the constant threat of drought, the West relies on intensively managed water systems...