The head of the nation's largest nuclear power plant owner decried America's lack of an energy policy and laid out a five-point plan featuring a mix of new regulations and financial incentives for coal, nuclear, and renewable power sources as a way to 'green' America's energy supply.
By Alvin Powell, Harvard News Office

"Plug-in" electric vehicles are cars or trucks that use electricity to move the vehicle's wheels. Some or all of that electricity comes from the power grid -- from "plugging in."
By Jan Mueller and Joanna Mauer, Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Part of the Department of Energy is the Building Technologies Program. The purpose of this program is to improve on how various buildings across the United States use energy efficiently.
By David Tanguay

HOME ENVIROSENSE

CITY & COMMUNITY EFFORTS

Fuel-efficient vehicles are one way to save money and reduce fuel consumption. But did you know that there are a few driving habits that you can adopt right now to save money and even help the environment.

At the time scarcely anyone in the United States noticed. In May of 1991 the small town of Hudson, Quebec, located just west of Montreal, adopted a law restricting the use of lawn pesticides on all property, privately held or municipally owned, within town limits.
Courtesy Safelawns.org

GLOBAL FRONTIER

BACK TO NATURE

E.ON and Masdar have joined forces to partner in the London Array offshore wind farm project — which, when built, will be the world's largest offshore scheme.
Courtesy World Future Energy Summit

MIT researchers and colleagues are working to find out whether energy from trees can power a network of sensors to prevent spreading forest fires.
By Elizabeth Thomson, MIT News Office

GREEN LEADER PROFILE

GS PRODUCT PICKS

Tensie Whelan is an environmental activist who once served as the executive director of the New York League of Conservation Voters and later helmed the Rainforest Alliance. She has also worked as a journalist and served as an editor of a book called Native Tourism.

The Organic Wine Company Wine Appreciation was never this affordable — or this healthy! These wines are made from 100% organic ingredients. Additionally, they're all vegan, using zero animal byproducts. Bottoms up!

TO YOUR HEALTH

ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT FOR CHANGE

Most people would be surprised to find out that the number-one cause of premature aging and disease in the Western world is the over-consumption of food.
By Darrell Miller

Malaria.com has teamed up with the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) to help raise money and awareness of malaria around the world.
Courtesy Malaria.com

BOOKS FOR THOUGHT

ECO PHOTO & WORD OF THE MONTH

We are facing an international energy crisis of unprecedented proportion. The foreign policy of the United States is uncomfortably associated with our dependency on foreign oil. The earth needs an answer and it needs one fast.
By S. David Freeman

Canadian Maple Leaf Turning Color, Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada.



clean energy — Clean energy is any energy that causes little or no harm to the environment.