Feeling anxious about global warming and economic collapse? In towns like Sandpoint, Idaho, people are trying to look on the bright side of an America with less.

Shai Agassi claims he has solved the electric-car problem. Now if he can just get the auto companies, a few national governments and millions of consumers to adopt his scheme.

David Foster wants to preserve New England’s beautiful, bountiful, carbon-hungry trees — and he says the best way to do that is to cut a few down.