Conservation

Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America

Today former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore laid out an ambitious call to action to transform the way we generate and use electricity.  He challenged America to commit … Read more

This Generation's Moonlanding Challenge: Al Gore's Call to Action

Today, Vice President Al Gore spoke to a large crowd in Washington DC and challenged the nation to action to change the way Americans generate and use electricity. "As energy … Read more

Enough Already With All the Fossil Foolery

New Offshore Drilling Won’t Dig Us Out of the Hole So, big oil and friends are at it again: doing what they can to keep us hooked on fossil fuels … Read more

Ending Offshore Drilling Moratorium, Bush Chooses Politics Over Climate Action

President George W. Bush yesterday issued an executive order to lift the ban on domestic offshore oil drilling. “By lifting the ban on drilling in our coastal waters, President Bush … Read more

Renewable Energy Sector Helps Drive Job Markets At Home And Abroad

A recent study shows that that jobs in renewable energy are expanding worldwide, while jobs in coal and natural gas are disappearing.  Currently about 2.3 million people around the world … Read more

Administration Rejects Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

The Bush administration on Friday rejected regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would cause too many job losses. Rep. Edward Markey, chairman of the House Select Committee … Read more

Al Gore To Speak On National Challenge On Energy And Climate

Al Gore, chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, helped launch in March a multi-year, multi-faceted campaign designed to engage the American public and ignite a movement to address one … Read more

Reversing the Paradigm and Cutting Emissions

Peter Darbee, CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric, has given a great online interview. Peter highlights that the utilities like PG&E that have reversed the paradigm of how they reach … Read more

Write It! Wear It! Snap It! Boast It! for Public Lands

The National Wildlife Federation needs your help to give us a catchy slogan for Our Public Lands web site. This contest will run until the fall of 2008 and will … Read more

Head of IPCC Warns That We Need to Act Now

Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said Friday that "only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely … Read more