How can human production be transformed and harnessed to save the planet? Can a market economy really help solve the environmental crisis?

With the urgent need to establish meaningful climate policies heading into the G20 – even in the face of a fragile global economy– Canada’s government needs to take a fresh look at the debate around the economy and climate, writes David Suzuki.

With climate change on the agenda of the G20 summit in Toronto this weekend, sustainability experts have a message for world leaders: Integrate economy and sustainability now.

We all want to know how to solve the energy crisis. But who would have though that the answer partly lies on Europe’s roofs?

Maryland Public Service Commission highlighted the political resistance smart-metering advocates must overcome when it shot down proposals for compulsory smart metering submitted by Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE).

Chevron’s latest oil spill in Utah couples with a 16-year-old lawsuit over water pollution in Ecuador to land the U.S. oil firm at the top of the pack of companies that turned heads over the past two weeks, a roundup by ASSET4 data providers shows.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is unquestionably the biggest spill in U.S. history, far surpassing the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska in 1989. But is it the worst environmental disaster inflicted on America?

We are in a dire situation. One that our president recognized in his oval office address on Tuesday night: America has postponed overcoming our oil addiction for decades. The first call to wean ourselves from oil came more than three decades ago by President Carter in the late 1970s. Had we done it then, the job would have been completed in 1985. It is beyond time to end our dependence on oil. And Americans are finally ready to do it.

A new offshore wind farm in south England is clearly visible from the beach. But normally conservative locals don’t seem to mind the turbines spinning on the horizon.

Top executives of the five largest oil companies, including BP America, are answering questions from Congress about the Gulf oil spill, starting at 9:30 am today.

A trip into the Louisiana’s fouled marshlands reveals unfamiliar sights and smells

The workers on boats laying boom and helping map the slicks in the Gulf of Mexico are directly in harm’s way, again, write environmental activists Erin Brockovich and social commentator Ben Adler.

The news that a huge metal cap has been successfully placed over several of the leaking oil vents at the Deepwater Horizon site marks a potential turning point in the Gulf of Mexico crisis.

Republicans may be coming around to former Vice President Al Gore’s way of thinking. Not on climate change, but on the “lockbox.”

Rio Tinto has been winning attention for a leak at one of its uranium mines near Australia’s Kakadu National Park. Here is a roundup of the companies that made headlines May 22 to June 4 for winning or losing credibility based on environment-related activity, compiled by ASSET4.