If you haven’t seen the Enron documentary The Smartest Guys In The Room, you are missing a first class presentation on one of the biggest corporate swindles ever to take place. The sheer magnitude of fraud orchestrated by Jeff Skilling and abetted by Lay and others boggles the mind.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, you [...]

A new ’skywalk’, or 70 ft. extension of metal and glass cantilevered out over the rim of the Grand Canyon has opened on the Hualapai reservation. Its hard for me to imagine how this adds value to the experience of a visit to the canyon, but it certainly has drawn plenty of media attention. [...]

This is pretty darn cool. The free application, Google Earth has added a feature that highlights global environmental issues, and the first to be featured is right here in the US. The new layers feature also includes World Wildlife Fund project sites.
The destruction caused by mountaintop removal for coal in the Appalachians doesn’t [...]

The New York Times recently ran this article on the deterioration of Kentucky’s Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River. The dam’s construction in 1952 created Lake Cumberland, the largest man-made lake east of the Mississippi River. Now the dam’s deterioration is wreaking havoc on a local economy that has become dependent [...]

I was actually ashamed when I read of the remarks by Ann Coulter at the Conservative Political Action Conference this past Friday. Just how is it that this type of speech can be condoned at a high profile party event with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and our sitting Vice President [...]

In a state that isn’t exactly known for its environmental initiatives, could the big TXU buyout deal be heralding a change in corporate attitudes toward dirty energy programs?
Dallas based TXU Corp’s leadership has been under fire for some time because of the company’s plans to build 11 new coal fired power plants in eastern Texas. [...]

Arctic explorer Will Steger has just started a 3 month ski and dog sled voyage across Baffin Island to promote awareness of climate changes taking place above the arctic circle. You can follow his adventure through this website. Among his crew are several Inuit guides who will use their natural history knowledge of [...]