Tourists and residents in New England used to receive a spectacular display of color on the second October of every year. However, in recent years, the show has been a bit duller and a bit later than usual. The culprit? What else - area temperatures

This is wonderful. A bi-partisan political storm is brewing over New Hampshire because Al and Arnold have found a clever way to inject serious climate discussion into the coming US presidential primary season. Timing could not be better, with the IPCC

This next week is all politics, what with today's Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries on January 8. Most Americans are probably already tired of the election coverage, but we're hoping people stick it out and ask the these presidential

DeSmogBlog has conferred a controversial award on US Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama: It's called the "2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming." Joe Romm's reaction in Climate Progress is here: "DeSmogBlog owes Obama

For the first time in my lifetime the environment is a top-tier issue in a presidential race, as was clearly in evidence in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. It was next to impossible for a candidate to have any sort of press event

Two years ago when Mion footwear won an ecodesign award we described them as something "you might expect the Jetsons to wear on the weekends." And we wanted the company to be more overt in their green product design. With their new models they've

A few months back we heard about Middlebury College's efforts to green their electricity and heating. Well, over at the University of New Hampshire they're

Video profile of University of New Hampshire Ecoline™ project. Video credit:UNH and Waste Management.The beginning of a new decade reminds us to also look back at the past 10 years to see how everything from daily tasks to new technologies have evolved.

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University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally-produced food system. The good news: farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' of food -

Homeowner Mary Beth Parkinson came home to quite a surprise, a black bear had been rifling through her kitchen before it fled the house taking a stuffed toy bear with it. The bear had entered her home through an unlocked door, helped

How would you like to carve a Jack-o-lantern from one of these three record-breaking pumpkins from this weekend?

As the temperature drops in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, locals bundle up and get excited. While most wait for the first snow to cover the ski runs, others hold out for those first cold nights to freeze the area's waterfalls.

The North American holiday actually has its roots in a newspaper strike in Toronto, a fight over toxic working conditions.

Most of the english speaking world has the day off today, in what started as a tradition of helping and sharing, and ended up at the mall.

A community group plans massive tree planting effort to reforest one of Europe's least wooded areas.

The Crisis of Civilization explores our modern cultural crises by sampling archive film footage from PSAs. Now the makers are asking budding film makers to have a go themselves.

Beyond the headline, a really great overview of how globalization may well be entirely reshaped by energy constraints, for the betterment of local economies in places where manufacturing has been outsourced for years.

Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins sets out what Resilience 2.0 might look like.

The Transition Movement - a community-centered response to peak oil and climate change - has been described as "the biggest urban brainwave of the century." Join us to chat with its founder.

A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it.

Value of Fossil Fuel Exports By Fuel, 1949-2010

New research rewrites our understanding of why no new coal deposits develop -- but offers hope for post-coal energy solutions.

George Monbiot claims that peak oil is no longer a major concern. Is he right?

Futurist Guy Dauncey acknowledges that the stakes are high and the challenges are enormous. Yet defeatism is not an option.

Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.

Growing bike sales, a boom in sharing, and an interest in growing your own food are ust some of the signs that we could be moving beyond our current energy paradigm. Add your own to the list.

The Oil Drum is a website published by the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future, a non-profit that conducts research and educates the public about energy issues and their impact on society.

This rapper nails it, imho.

We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.

We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed.

It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble.

Peak oil used to be about running out of supply; now some think that we will run out of demand. The oil companies will ensure that we never run out of demand.

The tiny, flexible solar cells can be integrated into objects of any shape or size.

This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.

A new study says yes, but luckily the fix is simple.

The blocks could be part of the architecture of a building, generating more power than just rooftop panels.

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.

The technology makes for better energy generation and a better window.

Is this totally silly and a waste of time and money, or is it a great leap forward? Or is it too soon to tell?

Pioneering solar house was designed and engineered by women

The teen has been building the DIY microwave, hoping to solve many cooking problems with one device.

It also comes with its own beer dispenser, built-in right in the couch.

In which I try out a smart lighting system in my dumb home.

I knew that real-time data on our energy use would be interesting. But I wasn't sure how much it would actually save us.

What is that man smoking?

Aedas designs a railway station like a hill you can walk on.

It is both a parody of the real estate business and a shocking exposé of Hong Kong Housing

The fashion event's EcoChic Design Awards inspire Asia’s emerging fashion talent to create with minimal textile waste.