Sarah Palin and John McCain have always been for it. Joe Biden was sort of against it before he was for it and Barack Obama embraces it. To what am I referring? The alleged panacea of clean coal.

During harvest season, when we go to the Farmers Market, we make sure to stock up on pie pumpkins, butternut, red kuri, acorn, and spaghetti squash. Some go into savory dishes, like a soup or stir fry, and the rest go to feed my sweet tooth.

Join Red, Green, and Blue, and social media start-up ReframeIt for a "scavenger hunt" for information on John McCain's and Barack Obama's records on energy and environmental issues. The mainstream media isn't doing it, so help us fill in the gaps.

Rogue, a 4-year-old Belgian sheepdog, helps The Nature Conservancy find rare plants in Oregon that provide shelter for an endangered butterfly. Check out the great video and photos! Why isn't *my* dog this smart?!

We've been seduced by the beverage industry into believing only they can quench our thirst with colored, caffeinated, vitaminized, electrolyted water. We have become so parched that we can't walk down the street without toting a single-use plastic bottle.

Pete Blackshaw's book "Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends. Angry Customers Tell 3,000" is particularly relevant to green business entrepreneurs. And the Ecopreneurist bloggers have helpful tips for improving customer service and customer advocacy.

Americans have gotten into the habit of pitching worn out (or simply undesired) kicks and buying new ones. Shoe-shopping has become something of a fetish, a joke... a guest post from Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh

Buy a case of seconds and freeze half of them. It's so easy, you won't believe it.

This is the interesting point for Ecopreneurs: suppliers are having trouble keeping up with demand in the marketplace, even at the low levels of current business. Problems are at every level of the supply chain, so if you have a green idea, GET IT OUT THE

Many entrepreneurs use personal credit cards to finance their startup businesses, but for eco-entrepreneurs the lending policies of the card's issuing bank challenge a green business's mission. But an eco-entrepreneur is still tempted by a 0% APR!