It may not be soon enough for everyone, but the greening of America’s automobile population is happening. Hybrid cars are here to stay, and more and more of them include innovations such as expanded battery packs that can be recharged from an at-home wall socket. As battery technology improves at a faster pace than ever, [...]

Our latest feature story on our website EcoWorld, “India’s Water Future,” describes a proposal currently being debated in India to link their major rivers in order to move vast quantities of water from the water-rich north and east to the arid west and south of that country.
Well it isn’t as if it hasn’t been done [...]

Fuel cell vehicles are not ready for prime time, and this isn’t because of a conspiracy on the part of the auto-makers. If any car threatens the status-quo, it’s a battery powered commuter vehicle, or a serial-hybrid using an onboard high-efficiency constant RPM clean diesel to power a generator to charge a battery that powers [...]

For many years we’ve been inspired by the message from the Mahant at the Sankat Mochan Temple in Varanasi, the holy Hindu city on the banks of the Ganges river. As we reported in the article Clean the Ganges, the Mahant at this temple, Veer Bhadra Mishra, has been working for nearly 25 years to [...]

Did you know that biofuel has two distinct types? There’s ethanol from crops such as corn or sugar cane, and there’s biodiesel from crops such as rapeseed and jatropha and oil palms. Some plants, like corn, can be processed for ethanol and biodiesel at the same time.
There is an excellent source of information about biofuel [...]

Wherever, whenever, the price comes down a little more, photovoltaics will solve every energy shortage there ever was forever. Photovoltaics already can produce twenty times the energy in their lifetimes than the energy it takes to make them, and photovoltaic manufacturers have been selling out their product as fast as they can make them for [...]

The biggest fiscal challenge in America’s public sector today, most requiring of a centrist solution, confronted first in California, is that the main cause of budget deficits are the ever-rising costs for government employee benefits. There are tens of millions of government employees in the USA, millions just in California.
Don’t think how California may or [...]