The need for clean energy sources is a familiar theme, but something important has been added. ...more

February 27, 2010

Hillsborough officials and planners have been wise to reject ill-advised attempts to expand the urban service boundary to allow new housing developments on rural land. ...more

February 24, 2010

Municipal officials are hoping the very sunshine that makes Florida famous will provide a much-needed, long-awaited renewable energy source for the city owned utility - Lakeland Electric. ...more

February 17, 2010

The promise of more home-grown solar energy is exciting from both an environmentalist and capitalist point of view. ...more

January 27, 2010

NASA said today that scientists have given up trying to free Spirit, which has been trapped in soft sand on Mars since last April. ...more

January 26, 2010

Green used to be just a color. Occasionally, it was used as an expression to mean inexperienced. But now the connotations that power this word run on solar panels. To admit to not recycling, to retain apathetic feelings toward polar bears, and to accuse the scientific community of fear-mongering is equated to blasphemy. ...more

December 16, 2009

Green used to be just a color. Occasionally, it was used as an expression to mean inexperienced. But now the connotations that power this word run on solar panels. To admit to not recycling, to retain apathetic feelings toward polar bears, and to accuse the scientific community of fear-mongering is equated to blasphemy. ...more

December 15, 2009

I wonder how many people in this country, or the world for that matter, really think we will make any kind of a strong financial recovery without coal and oil? Our manufacturing plants and all of our industries, as well as our small businesses need an ample, dependable and reasonably priced supply of coal and oil, as clean as possible, preferably from the U.S. Wind, sun and battery needs to continue to be developed. I wonder, though, how many windmills, solar panels and batteries would be required to run a car manufacturing plant, along with the tires, glass and steel necessary - once, all very successful; once all very successful in this country. Pollution you say? Are you saying China, North Korea, South Korea, India and Iran, etc. are running their manufacturing plants without coal and oil? Our coal and oil would be used much cleaner in this country. Pollution you say? Ours would be cleaner and doesn't all pollution go into the same sky? ...more

November 22, 2009

Those green m&m's are getting greener. A New Jersey candy factory that produces m&m's flipped the switch Monday on a dedicated solar array that is the largest in the nation to serve a single manufacturing complex, according to Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. ...more

November 10, 2009

The scene made no sense: A remote Florida field. A former orange grove now converted into a giant solar energy farm. Solar panels shifting with the sun like thousands of sails catching sunbeams. ...more

November 1, 2009