LiveScience.com - While Christmas is sometimes white, it generally isn't green. All that one-time-use wrapping paper and packaging, fuel spent traveling and shipping presents, and energy used to light up trees and houses means the holiday season takes a toll on the environment.

Several major corporations are taking a hint from the open-source software movement and pooling their green innovations.

Greg Bove steps into his pickup truck and drives down a sandy path to where the future of Florida's renewable energy plans begin: Acres of open land filled with solar panels that will soon power thousands of homes and business.

AP - Jillian Lung says she's no environmentalist. Still, she couldn't pass up a chance to install a carpet of solar panels atop her co-op in Queens.

The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow.

Highlights from the 14th Annual National Solar Tour.

Can you profit from being an eco- investor?

AFP - Denmark's climate minister Monday predicted that a UN summit in Copenhagen in December would not reach a global climate accord without the backing of the United States to aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Toyota Motor Corp. has joined the growing ranks of automakers planning to bring advanced battery-powered vehicles to showrooms in the near future.The Japanese automaker said it planned to have a plug-in version of its popular Prius hybrid for sale in the U.S. ...

The world’s biggest mobile phone makers announced a deal today agreeing to a universal standard phone charger that will work on millions of handsets made by different manufacturers.