Commentary Archive

The State of Georgia is still having trouble with their Prius emissions tests.

Triple Pundit had an interesting article earlier this month about a new group of American auto workers and dealers who disagree with the auto lobby.

Every year, the Carbon Disclosure Project sends out a questionnaire to the largest publicly traded companies around the world asking how much CO2 does your business emit? 77% respond. Who is not?

We have so much to be thankful for. Our family, friends and our good fortune. I am particularly grateful to all you thousands of EnergyRacer's who have signed up and reduced 3,830 tons of CO2. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

While catching up on my This Old House home improvement magazine subscription, I was pleasantly surprised to see how many of the articles were focused on green building materials and products.

Switching to compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) is one of the single most effective steps you can take to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and save money at the same time. Yet CFLs contain a small amount of mercury, a highly toxic element. Do CFLs increase the amount of mercury in the environment?

If you enter a room full of global warming activists working to reduce our CO2 emissions and ask What about carbon offsets?, the consensus and agreement in the room evaporates. Why are carbon offsets so controversial?

Leading corporations with large numbers of customers and large carbon dioxide footprints are beginning to go green. Bank of America is one recent example.