This is a prime example of divest-invest in action, folks...

These are tiny homes with an activist bent, taking a stand against the incursion of a pipeline that could contaminate indigenous lands.

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

The problem is not too little oil, says a new IEA report, it's too much oil. And it illustrates why activists should not presume to know the future.

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.

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.

Using a combination of LED lights, sunlight and environmental data, a disused oil silo has been transformed into Helsinki's newest art installation and urban destination.

One family’s farm Is leaving a lasting legacy of conservation.

At the ConocoPhillips annual shareholder meeting last week, CEO James Mulva announced the company's withdrawal from the oil-drilling project in Block 39 of the northern Peruvian Amazon. It was a highly controversial project

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.

A new technology developed by Korean researchers could generate electricity from the the motion of water in our toilets as well as rivers and streams, even rain drops.

Current events could lead to another oil embargo by Saudi Arabia, and it could be 1973 all over again

Sure, we'll be using oil for a while. But where, exactly, is demand growth going to come from?

The timeline needs some work. But this is a start...

When the harvest has been poor, rates of adulteration rise.

And yet it still plans to sell more oil...

Several years ago, this established cooperative in Honduras decided to pursue Rainforest Alliance certification for its palm oil. Find out what it looks like today.

Ramón Cruz has been growing oil palms for 37 years. He is a supporter of Rainforest Alliance's sustainable certification process.

Palm oil is found in nearly everything, yet have you ever wondered who makes it? how it's processed? what palm fruit looks like? Take a tour through a Honduran palm oil plantation to learn more.

Composting toilets have a lot of benefits. But can they really help save hippos?

If your price doesn't reflect the true cost of your product, then there's no such thing as a free market.

From cookies and cake mix to hair care and toothpaste, here's where to look for sneaky, eco-catastrophic palm oil.

An important, if short, cautionary tale on being dependent on any single foreign source of energy.

Over the past three months, over a million people from all around the globe have contacted LEGO to ask them to drop their oil partnership.

Scientists are concerned about how airports are conducive to the spread of disease.

From palm oil invaders to adorable Sumatran rhinos, this story about a recent environmental victory will inspire you.

Changes closer to home would be nice too.

With a visit to a festival and a brown lawn.

And they are not alone...

We all know that America and the world are getting fatter, but I didn't know that they are even now making special toilets to deal with the problem. In fact it is, um, an expanding market; The Zurn Bariatric wall hung flush

Experts have predicted a "high risk" of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.

Think we are cutting back? They are just getting started, and we are going to be buried in the stuff.

It's been a while since a good poo-power story has come down the pipe, but here's an interesting one: Massachusetts-based biofuels company Qteros and wastewater recyclers Applied Clean Tech have announced that they

Can we just all put palm oil biodiesel produced on deforested peatlands to rest already: A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme shows that biodiesel production under these

While AirBnB allows people to rent out lodging, from the smallest room to the biggest Irish castle, AirPnP has a smaller, though not less useful, ambition.

Rev. Richard Cizik and the nonprofit New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good have released a video message to President Obama calling on him to do more to protect public lands from destruction by private industry.

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch Bioneers 2009 - a weekend-long gathering in San Rafael, California of social and scientific innovators focused on environmental issues - kicked off on Friday with Michael Pollan as a headlining speaker. His talk came in the

The leader of the Catholic Church used his strongest language yet to call for 'decisive action, here and now.'

Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.

Some time ago I posted on the efforts of Joe Jenkins and GiveLove.org to promote humanure composting toilets in Haiti. But this was nothing new. In fact, one of the non-profit partners behind that

The thin layer of topsoil that covers much of the earth's land surface is the foundation of civilization. As long as soil erosion on cropland does not exceed new soil formation, all is well. But once it does,

The palm oil situation is bad, but some people argue that it would be worse if replaced by other vegetable oils.

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The future of green building depends on what comes out of our soil.

Taking a step back from the emotional response of the recent environmental devastation, let's take a look at offshore drilling more broadly: How much oil do we currently produce from offshore drilling, and how much might we potentially recover?

There's symbolism here. Let's hope there's substance too.

A Toronto city councillor is going to try.

It seems that the biggest Saudi field is losing its punch.