10 Ways to Save by Going Green
Maura Judkis

The era of new American frugality ushered in by the recession has an added benefit. Many measures that families take to cut costs in tough times -- turning down the heat or shopping secondhand, for example -- are also good for the planet. Here's 10 things that not only minimize your carbon footprint but also save you money

Audi's Gorewellian Super Bowl Ad
Jonah Goldberg

Audi's 'Green Police' depicts an America where citizens are arrested for even minor environmental infractions. Until the pitch for Audi intrudes, you'd think it was a fun parody. Instead, the moral of the story is that we should welcome our new green overlords and, if we know what's good for us, surrender to the New Green Order.

Unique Ways to Go Green if You're Living in a Dorm
Zach Miners

College is often termed the best years of your life. Now, recent trends suggest that it is also becoming pretty green. A growing number of colleges and universities are seeking ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, many with energy-efficient facilities and construction projects. And there are many things individuals can do to reduce their impact on the environment.

Chamber of Commerce Considering EPA Lawsuit
Kenneth T. Walsh

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is considering a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency challenging EPA's plans to regulate greenhouse gases, according to chamber President and CEO Tom Donohue

Climate Change - A Falling Doctrine
Cal Thomas

The doctrine of global warming, now euphemistically called climate change, suffered a severe blow last week as much of Europe was buried in record amounts of snow and sub-freezing temperatures. Experts who believe in global warming, uh climate change, bravely tried to make a distinction between short-term weather and long-term climate change.

Why Failing to Complete Green Revolution Could Bring Next Famine
Carlisle Ford Runge

Rising food prices have intensified the risks of large-scale hunger. The reasons are complex, but one of them is that demand for food is increasing as populations and incomes grow even as the supply of food is increasingly being diverted to other uses, such as the production of biofuels. As a result famine is again stalking the world's poor

Oh, Yes, The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
Paul Greenberg

The other day a friend asked if I'd written about the Copenhagen conference on climate change, carbon control, environmental technology, the ecological future of Spaceship Earth, cabbages and kings, and the 101 other Very Important Things covered by that huge, long-awaited and now suddenly fizzled international gabfest. No, I hadn't written about it, until now. Maybe because it ended not with a bang but with a whimper heard 'round the world

Copenhagen Accord Offers Some Progress on Climate Change
Kent Garber

The Copenhagen Climate Change Accord is not what many wanted. It's not binding. Its language is vague. And it basically offers a bunch of 'shoulds' rather than 'musts.' It has few deadlines and few consequences, and falls short of being an actual treaty. However, many suggest it is the first in a long line of dominoes that must be knocked over.

China on the Defensive After Obama's Climate Speech
Kent Garber

The United States is publicly and privately pressuring China to share more information about its carbon emissions. And that is putting China on the defensive.

Climate Deal an Important First Step
Kent Garber

Leaders appear to have agreed to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius in coming decades and to set guidelines by which countries, including China, would monitor and report those emissions.

China Mulling Clinton's Climate Change Offer
Kent Garber

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived for the final two days of the Climate Change Conference, the goal being to reach some sort of agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and she skillfully came with both an offer and a threat.

Copenhagen Could Change the Global Warming Debate
Kent Garber

John Kerry has emerged as one of the biggest champions for action on climate change in the Senate, and joined with Senators Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman to unveil a bipartisan plan for curbing emissions. Kent Garber spoke with Kerry about his expectations and the state of climate legislation in the U.S.

Global Warming - Global Wealth Can Heal the Planet
Jonah Goldberg

With the Copenhagen climate summit behind us, it seems fair to say that rarely has a gathering of so many doing so little gotten so much attention. But Copenhagen does have its uses. For starters, it reminds us that environmentalism continues to be a cover for uglier agendas

Top 5 Issues at the Copenhagen Climate Conference
Kent Garber

Many of the world's economic powerhouses and biggest polluters, including the United States and China, have said they're serious about hashing out an agreement. Of course, 'success' can mean different things to different people: Some want a political agreement; others want a legally binding treaty. Here are five things that could determine the outcome

China Takes Tiny Steps on Climate Change
Kent Garber

China says that it's getting serious about tackling global warming. After President Obama pledged two weeks ago to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, China came out with its own plan, promising to slow the growth of its fast-rising carbon pollution

Global Warming E-Mails Scandal Doesn't Disprove Climate Change Facts
Bonnie Erbe

I must take issue with last week's posting by my conservative colleague Peter Roff on the E-mail scandal that's rocking the scientific community

Global Warming as a Political Tool
Jonah Goldberg

Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, formally announced that her agency now considers carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant, subject to government regulation. Greens have wanted to find a way for the government to regulate CO2, a natural byproduct of fire and breathing, for decades. Now they can.

Groupthink and the Global Warming Industry
Jonah Goldberg

By now you might have heard something about the e-mail scandal rocking the climate change industry, though you can be forgiven if you haven't, since it hasn't gotten nearly the coverage it should.

Climate Change and The Flathead Society
Cal Thomas

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has taken the route of many who would rather call names than have a serious debate about 'climate change.' He characterizes those who question 'settled science' members of the 'flat-earth' society. When people resort to name-calling it is a sign they have lost an argument

Hacked E-mails Give Inhofe Fuel for Climate Change Debate
Kent Garber

A slew of hacked E-mail snippets are rolling around the Internet. Posted earlier this month, the E-mails were swiped from a server at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and contain exchanges between several top climate scientists discussing, among other things, how to make their data appear more impressive for publication. Not surprisingly ...

Why Some People Go Green and Others Do not
Matthew Bandyk

Why do some people love the Toyota Prius, but others couldn't care less about driving a hybrid vehicle? Why do some of your friends spend hours trying to reduce their carbon footprint, while others wonder what's the point of even recycling?

Conservation Group Sees a Win for Obama on Climate Change
Paul Bedardn

Despite pessimistic signs on Capitol Hill and internationally regarding action by the United States on climate change initiatives, the head of the World Wildlife Fund today predicted that the December climate summit in Copenhagen will draw up a framework for action that will prompt Congress to move on the critical issue

Climate Change Bill's Murky Battleground: Assumptions and Statistics
Kent Garber

On one side of the table were the Democrats. On the other side, where the Republicans normally would have been, there were only empty leather chairs. This was the strange scene in a hearing room on Capitol Hill, where Senate Democrats were trying to take the next step on their climate change bill by passing it through the Environment Committee.

Military Leads on Efficiency, Alternative Energy
Michael Signer

To some critics, the cause of alternative and sustainable energy will always be associated with the image of dewy-eyed do-gooders earnestly plying a hopeless cause. However, it might surprise opponents -- and even supporters -- that the most innovative and effective actors in the carbon-reduction arena is the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard who are aggressively pursuing plans for sustainable energy, reducing carbon, and achieving energy independence.

A Few Simple Changes Will Green Your Thanksgiving Feast
Cara Smusiak

Between travel, disposable plates, paper napkins, pre-packaged and heavily processed foods, leftovers wrapped in tinfoil and plastic wrap, and food that ends up in the trash because we just cooked too much, there's a hefty environmental footprint associated with Thanksgiving.

Norman Borlaug: The Man Who Changed Everything
Norman Borlaug (March 25, 1914 - September 12, 2009)

Norman Borlaug, a plainspoken Iowa farm boy who worked his way through the University of Minnesota during the Depression. His death at 95 came at the end of a life as rich as the bountiful fields he left across the world. To quote the citation that came with his Nobel Prize in 1970, "More than any other single person of this age, he has helped provide bread for a hungry world."

Interview with India's Environment Minister
Jayshree Bajoria

India and China have long maintained their economic growth will suffer if they accept binding emission targets under an international agreement on climate change. Instead, they have called for mitigation commitments by the developed world and financial support from rich countries to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

Religious Groups Push for Climate Change Legislation
Dan Gilgoff

American religious traditions have emerged as a large part of the environmental movement. The stepped-up environmental efforts of religious groups in Washington have paralleled a grass-roots effort among religious Americans to green their congregations.

A Fishy Tale - California Uproar over Water
Victor Davis Hanson

Nearly a quarter-million acres worth of federal irrigation deliveries have been cut from big farms of the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. The water in large part is being diverted to the salty San Francisco Bay and the delta to improve marine ecology. The result is that many crops have gone unplanted. Farm income is down. Thousands of farm laborers are unemployed. Growers and workers are now livid at environmentalists, federal bureaucrats and judges for worrying more about fish than about people and food growing

Even Skeptics Should Heed These Climate-Change Warnings
Robyn Blumner

To Global Warming Holdouts and Oil Drilling Enthusiasts: OK, maybe you don't care or believe that within a couple of generations global warming's effects on sea levels will swamp the world's coastlines, displacing hundreds of millions of people. However, you might want to get behind the push for alternative energy and a reduced carbon 'bootprint,' because our military says it's essential for American security

Global Warming and the Sun
Jonah Goldberg

On the last day of August, scientists spotted a teeny-weeny sunspot, breaking a 51-day streak of blemish-free days for the sun. If it had gone just a bit longer, it would have broken a 96-year record of 53 days without any of the magnetic disruptions that cause solar flares. That record was nearly broken last year as well. Wait, it gets even more exciting.

Overfishing, Pollution Could Change Our Seafood Diets
John Podesta

Marine biologists are alarmed by the imbalances that are appearing in marine ecosystems. The ocean is changing fast -- too fast, it seems, for us to reliably predict the combined effects of overfishing, pollution and climate change. What is clear is that the changes, by and large, are not good news for our bellies.

Cap-and-Trade Will Reduce Global Warming and Create Jobs
John Podesta

New investments in the clean energy technologies of the future would slash global warming pollution and reduce the use of foreign oil while also creating jobs and increasing our economic competitiveness vis-à-vis China and other nations.

Cap-and-Trade Would Make the American Dream a Nightmare
William O'Keefe

In 1984, the late historian Barbara Tuchman wrote The March of Folly, in which she chronicled the phenomenon of governments pursuing policies directly at odds with their self-interest. Tuchman used the term "wooden-headedness" to describe the tendency of leaders to assess situations using preconceived notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. History may be repeating itself in Washington as they fight to pass a climate bill that most lawmakers have not read and even fewer understand. In spite of growing evidence ...

Planet Bull's-Eye
Jonah Goldberg

It makes you wonder. For all the rush and panic, the truth is, climate change -- if real -- is a very slow-moving catastrophe. Moreover, it happens to align with an ideological and political agenda the left has been pushing for generations. What a convenient truth for environmentalists

When It Pays to Go Green
Kimberly Palmer

Going green sometimes comes with a price: Organic vegetables can cost twice as much as their mainstream counterparts. So when is going green really worth it? We asked some top environmental experts to weigh in -- and their answers might surprise you. They say that while spending extra is often justified, you can almost always find a cheaper alternative.

55 MPH Speed Limit Makes Economic, Political, and Environmental Sense
Tim Castleman

To a large degree, our cars are us, and restricting how we drive is tantamount to threatening our independence. In the bigger picture, however, this is just a reactionary response. The critical thinkers among us know that freedom demands responsibility, knowledge, and considerate action. We have good reason to reduce the speed at which we drive, for personal gain as well as the good of the nation.

55 MPH Speed Limit Is Unenforceable and Counterproductive
James Baxter

Motorist compliance with the 55 mph limit has always been problematic. Ticketing binges, threatened financial sanctions, relentless PR, and increased fines and penalties failed to stem noncompliance. Despite increasing noncompliance and increased highway speeds, fatality rates continue to decline, contradicting the folklore that higher speed limits and higher speeds result in more serious accidents.

Climate Change Bill Faces Hurdles in the Senate
Kent Garber

To pass climate change legislation in the House last month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi needed 218 votes. She got 219: 211 Democrats plus 8 Republicans. By almost the narrowest of margins, the House voted to put a cap on the country's greenhouse gas emissions. Now the debate goes to the Senate, where passage will probably be just as tough. California Sen. Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment Committee, is leading the effort

America's First Global Warming Cap and Trade Program
Martin O'Malley, Governor of the state of Maryland

As the debate over energy independence, climate change, and "green jobs" heats up this summer, Congress and the American public should take note one of the most significant accomplishments related to climate change to date and some of the lessons we've learned. In September 2008, 10 northeastern states, including Maryland, launched the United States's first greenhouse gas "cap and trade system" -- and it is working.

Yucca Mountain: Harry Reid Declares Nevada Nuclear Containment Facility Dead
Robert Bryce

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has declared that Yucca Mountain, the site in Nevada where the federal government has been planning to store high-level radioactive waste, is "never going to open." Reid may be right. President Obama's 2010 budget nearly zeroes out federal funding for the waste site.

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Plan to Combat Global Warming: Pie in the Sky
Jonah Goldberg

Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon ... ," grab your wallet.

The latest example of anthropogenic-lunar empowerment is global warming. Al Gore and Barack Obama routinely cite the Apollo program as proof that we can make good on the president's messianic campaign pledge to stem the rising ocean tides and hasten the healing of the planet.

How the Global Warming Bill Will Affect Your Wallet
Matthew Bandyk

How much will the Waxman-Markey bill cost the average American? In the coming weeks, Congress will likely consider a massive global-warming bill to create a new cap-and-trade program to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. President Obama praised the bill, dubbed Waxman-Markey for its co-sponsors, as a vital step to create millions of new jobs all across America

Norman Borlaug: Population Growth Requires Second Green Revolution
Norman Borlaug Nobel Laureate Interview

Norman Borlaug is known as the father of the Green Revolution. His work with high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties is credited with saving as many as a billion people from starvation worldwide. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply. At age 95, a recent interview ...

Composting: From Garden to Kitchen to Garden

The key to a good garden is good compost, and every gardener worth his salt should be making his own. Compost is a wonderful thing, plants are happy when grown in this sweet black soil amendment. Making your own is easy. Anything that once was living will eventually become compost. The trick is how fast you can harvest it.

Greening My House
Arianna Huffington

Ever since I saw the Green light, thanks to my friend Laurie David, and traded in my gas-guzzling SUV, I've tried my best to up my eco-awareness.