By LEA RADICK, ClimateWire, The New York Times

For many people, geothermal energy conjures up images of steaming geysers or bubbling hot water gushing up from superheated rocks deep within the Earth. The western United States is rich in this form of energy, but in the East, these heat-producing layers are too deep to be retrieved without expensive exploration technology.

But geothermal

As the world confronts the reality of global warming and the inevitable end of oil, the questions of what to do and how to sustain energy without oil or fossil fuels becomes more urgent. Bob McKeown and a fifth estate team travel to Germany to meet Hermann Scheer, called “Europe’s Al Gore,” a parliamentarian who is leading the way to increase Germany’s reliance on renewable energy

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE FORCIBLY MADE TO WATCH THIS FILM – Ken Livingstone

The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change

Excerpt from James Lovelock’s speech at Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front Street W.) in Toronto on May 26, 2009 during his book tour for his new book, “The Vanishing Face of Gaia”:

“If we could persuade the system to just not return thirty thousand million tonnes that would be equal to the amount part of all of our emissions. So could we do it? It might just be possible. If we could get

By JOHN HEILPRIN, May 25, 2009, The Associated Press

COPENHAGEN (AP) - Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing greenhouse gases.

The CEOs of PepsiCo, Nestle, BP and other major world businesses began meeting in Copenhagen,

Posted by Eric Hess, 05/12/2009, Sightline Daily

Here’s a great, short video on development, sprawl, and transportation that illustrates some of the concepts we here at Sightline have been talking about for a while. Created by John Paget, it’s the winner of the Congress for New Urbanism CNU 17 video contest. And it’s pretty cool to boot:

If the video doesn’t work, you can see it

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Spring has been busy. We've launched the world's first high performance electric street motorcycle and set a world record at the 24 Hours of Electricross.

The launch of the Zero S is receiving attention from around the world. It has been featured on CNN, Fox News, and recently on the front page of the BBC Technology and Business sections.

To accommodate soaring global

By Mike Scott, May 10 2009; Financial Times

Dealing with climate change is mostly couched in terms of the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with targets often set far in the future.

But focusing on these mitigation strategies has distracted attention from the need to adapt to changes happening now, according to experts.

"People are looking to the future and what will happen