Editor's Note: A couple weeks ago we posted a piece by Alex Aylett reporting on Portugal's impressive percentage of renewable electricity supply. Below, we revisit Portugal's renewable energy success and explore how their planning policies helped the... [more]

Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging:2009Solar Panels To Boost Property PricesJoe Romm argues that as peak oil kicks in and the reality of human-caused climate change becomes painfully clear, energy efficiency, geothermal ... [more]

Michael Eliason and Aaron Yankauskas, of Brute Force Collaborative, have a great case-study up on a recently completed 'Passivhaus' housing project in the Lodenareal complex in Innsbruck, AustriaDeveloped by Neue Heimat Tirol and designed by architek... [more]

Grist has a new series of interviews up on people who are working to change America's food system in inspiring ways. Yesterday they posted an interview with Gene Fredericks that is worth a read; it introduces Fredericks's new venture: Big Green Boxes... [more]

For those who like me missed the news on Monday: the world's most well known climate change skeptic has done a dramatic about face.Bjorn Lomborg's 1998 book The Skeptical Environmentalist has been a pillar for critics of climate science... [more]

Cities need to plan for the future now by developing infrastructure and communities that make them resilient, rugged and adaptable to planetary changes. Coastal cities are particularly vulnerable to increased flooding from larger storm surges and... [more]

by Katie AllenCharity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020Cane cutter wields machete. Friends of the Earth says that biofuel crops, including sugar cane, 'are competin... [more]

Can declines in home sales mean a different kind of American Dream?by Roger ValdezRecent headlines have been blaring about July's huge drop in home sales across the United States. Along with a drop in the stock market, the plunge in sales has also le... [more]

Consumers now have little information about the true ecological impacts of what they buy. But that may be about to change, as new technologies that track supply chains are emerging and companies as diverse as Unilever and Google look to make their pr... [more]

by David BoisRecent scientific advancements have led to one innovation that can extract potable water from atmospheric moisture and another that produces synthetic fuel feedstock by removing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Science Daily now reports of cu... [more]