With an abundance of companies going green, and a corresponding explosion of green themed conferences sprouting up, this is to be applauded.

Quick quiz: name five things about Finland. I’ll go first: reindeer, vodka, snow, Nokia,  and … saunas. Pretty sad, right? For a bunch of world travelers we should know better. Luckily there is a group who is setting out to change all that....

With little more than a week to go before the start of the COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen, the “Road to Copenhagen” starts to sound a little tired, even as participants prepare for actually heading to Copenhagen. With the...

One of the greatest barriers of entry for residential solar power systems has been the high cost of installation. And for some, another turn-off is the aesthetic of conventional rooftop panels.  The SolarClover residential rooftop solar energy system,...

This excerpt from The Price of a Bargain by Canadian journalist Gordon Laird is presented in honor of Buy Nothing Day. Happy anti shopping! For better and for worse, ours is the age of the bargaineers – the engineers of bargains – whose factories...

Monsanto is the largest seed company in the world. It controls 95 percent of the market for insect and herbicide resistant cotton traits. In 2008, Monsanto had shares of up to 65 percent for traited corn and soybeans and about 45 percent for traited...