The heat wave that is sweeping the East Coast this summer shows how costly it can be when increasing energy demands deluge an already crowded grid.

A new study says that cutting soot emissions is the best way to save the rapidly melting Arctic. Soot emissions are a result of burning fossil fuel, wood, and dung, amongst other things, and according to a new study by Stanford researcher Mark Z.

Nearly unnoticed in the discussions of the just-signed financial reform bill is a measure that will require manufacturers of electronics and other goods to avoid using materials from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the ‘rape capital of the world.’

The resurgent interest in alternative fuels has propelled interest in using biomass “feedstocks” as an energy source for liquid fuel and bio-electricity generation. But bio-fuel (and other ‘commodity chemicals’) derived from ‘woody’ biomass faces one big technical challenge: how to separate the useful constituents of cellulose-based biomass (i.e., its its six-carbon, building block sugars) from the not so useful ones (such as lignin and hemicellulose )

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Representatives of nearly 50 socially responsible investing groups have issued a public call to the electronics industry to step up their oversight of suppliers.

In discussions and theories about why consumers choose green products, there’s little talk of brand.