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  • Renewable energy stages a comeback (images)

    Take a tour of people's efforts to harness the water, wind, land, and sun in the past and the present, and get a peek at ideas to displace fossil fuels in the future.

  • Greenpeace's 7 steps to future fueled by renewable energy

    What would the ghost of our energy future tell us?

    Blog posts | June 10, 2010 7:33am PDT

  • EPA moves toward tighter smog rules

    EPA moves toward tighter controls on ground-level smog in the U.S.

    Blog posts | January 7, 2010 3:23pm PST

  • Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America

    I recently blogged about the EPA's move against major greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S. Well, the utilities, industrial air polluters, fossil fuel industry and their allies are fighting...

    Blog posts | October 3, 2009 10:50am PDT

  • What powers the richest Americans?

    Right now there are no greentech billionaires on Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans. That could change. But there are over two dozen billionaires who depend directly on the fossil fuel...

    Blog posts | October 1, 2009 8:14am PDT

  • Fossil fuel battle: who'll reign over America's energy future

    Forget renewable energy, apparently the battle for supremacy in your energy future is between Big Coal and Natural Gas. Be aware, the math indicates coal has more Senate votes that natural gas....

    Blog posts | September 8, 2009 11:49am PDT

  • Is there a green fossil fuel?

    The natural gas interests are interested in the being the first choice fuel in the American future. A report just issued from the Potential Gas Committee sure makes natural gas look like the best...

    Blog posts | June 18, 2009 1:57pm PDT

  • Google trumps fossil fuel industry?

    Google is searching for more than websites. They're searching for the holy grail of energy as well. Financially competitive alternative energy. Now their energy chief claims they are close....

    Blog posts | June 10, 2009 11:44am PDT

  • New Englanders can now see the gory details

    If the state of the world economy isn't ugly enough, you can now oogle the cost in dollars and pollution of the energy use in New England. This report shows consumption and costs of all fossil...

    Blog posts | February 24, 2009 4:11pm PST

  • New U.S. energy triumverate now in power

    This afternoon, hours after President Obama took office, the U.S. Senate confirmed three powerful new players in the American energy scene. The new secretaries of Energy, Interior and Agriculture...

    Blog posts | January 20, 2009 6:07pm PST

  • Alternative energy still powerful, says report

    Don't give up on alternative energy, says EER. They cite three long-term trends that mean a long and successful future for effective producers of electricity and energy not based on fossil fuels:...

    Blog posts | November 10, 2008 5:25pm PST

  • Needed: a truly green source of light (besides the sun). Any bright ideas?

    Fossil fuel prices are dropping so all the folks who rushed into the alternative energy branch of greentech are going to be slogging up a steep and slippery slope for some time. But can't...

    Blog posts | November 4, 2008 11:43am PST

  • Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?

    Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international...

    Blog posts | October 8, 2008 8:05am PDT

  • Can coal be clean?

    At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Tim Vail of Synthesis Energy says a mix of solutions is needed to solve our energy problems. Erik Straser of Mohr Davidow Ventures adds...

    Videos | September 18, 2008 1:53pm PDT

  • There's one fossil fuel that is becoming more abundant, thanks to technology

    It's long been a popular fuel for industrial use, and even got some play in the transportation market. Now natural gas will be even more popular in America because IT'S ACTUALLY BECOMING MORE...

    Blog posts | August 25, 2008 3:34pm PDT

  • Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate them

    There's an interesting mix of news on fossil fuel prices from around the world. Right now the futures price of crude oil is dropping. There is even some speculation it could halve if demand for...

    Blog posts | July 30, 2008 8:24am PDT

  • Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018

    Since my blogging buddy Harry Fuller is on vacation this week, I need to pick up the gauntlet and ensure that we've got some good political fodder for those of you who want to debate the existence...

    Blog posts | July 18, 2008 9:49am PDT

  • Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past

    To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil...

    Blog posts | July 1, 2008 2:45pm PDT

  • Just as old media once berated and belittled the Internet as a silly fad, now too with cleantech

    That venerable pillar of old, very established business, the Wall Street Journal has gone public with the bitter resentment of old business and fossil fuel for those upstarts who are trying to...

    Blog posts | May 21, 2008 4:02pm PDT

  • Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable

    Courtesy Gordon Murray & Mohr Davidow. I recently blogged about one VC's efforts in cleantech as it relates to finding renewable replacements for petrochemicals and coal-based products....

    Blog posts | May 4, 2008 7:15pm PDT

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