If a person were to listen to Energy Secretary Steven Chu or National Geographic, one might think that our energy problems are fairly minor and distant. We can easily add sufficiently renewable energy to substitute for fossil fuels in a fairly short time frame. But if one looks at the situation more closely, one discovers that the situation is quite different.

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Fred Turner's book looks at the influence Bucky Fuller had on a range of people, in particular Stewart Brand, who helped create first the hippie counterculture and the back to the land movement of the sixties and seventies, then later the cyberculture that grew up around the San Francisco bay area.

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Two plans for capturing the carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations have shared tens of millions of pounds of government money to fund detailed design...

Predicting the end of oil has proven tricky and often controversial, but Kuwaiti scientists now say that global oil production will peak in 2014.

Wind-power company Broadwind plummets on expected first half bottoming and weak fourth-quarter numbers.

PetroVietnam Gas has signed a $1bn business co-operation contract to build and operate a pipeline running from the gas fields off Vietnam's southern coast to the Mekong Delta

-Grow your own' revolution receives major land boost
-Slow foodies are not cavemen
-What’s driving our favorite fruit into decline?
-A Backlash After San Francisco Labels Sewage Sludge "Organic"
-How Locavores Could Save the World
-Increasing Yields and Decreasing Fertilizer Waste on Subsistence Farms
-How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
-Greenhouse project promotes self-sufficiency

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JPMorgan shifts its cleantech investing theme, souring on solar and catching the wind. We sit down with the JPMorgan's alternative energy analyst to drill down on its sudden, total eclipse of the sun.

JPMorgan shifts its cleantech investing theme, souring on solar and catching the wind. We sit down with the JPMorgan's alternative energy analyst to drill down on its sudden, total eclipse of the sun.

What do you do if you're an energy consultancy that finds itself on the wrong side of the peak oil argument just as much of the oil industry and the rest of the world embraces the idea? The solution devised by eternal optimists IHS CERA, hosting a conference in Houston this week, is to sidestep this embarrassing development by simply rebranding the problem: 'peak demand'.

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Gold, silver, oil and natural gas look as if they could move higher.

-EU to exceed 2020 green energy target: forecasts
-Quantum Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation
-Solar PV has failed in Germany and it will fail in the UK

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Are Americans willing to jeopardize their health with GMO foods? Probably not. And it might take only 15 million Americans or 5 percent of the U.S. population to establish a tipping point for change.

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Rising gold prices this year have been driving a wave of acquisition activities in the sector with at least three major deals being announced this week

-The Wrong Kind of Green
-Return of the natives
-A Lesson from the Great Depression
-Why Us, God?

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Oil prices were higher Friday following a report from the International Energy Agency that said world oil demand would rise in 2010.

Swedish power group has agreed to sell its German grid to Elia of Belgium and an Australian infrastructure investment fund for €810m

When Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved from Washington, D.C., to the south end of Burlington, Vermont, in 1998, "we'd landed in what we thought was our dream neighborhood. It was walkable, near the lake, full of trees. But we were having trouble getting to know the neighbors.

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We’ve been hearing for years that the mainline Protestant churches are on the wane in the United States, emptying out in an increasingly atomized society. And Catholicism has been clearly weakened by recent internal events. Is the Christian church only a force on the Right in the United States?

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Oil prices were holding above $82 a barrel following a report from the International Energy Agency that said world oil demand would rise in 2010.