But there are some cheap, affordable ways that students can go green and still maintain their finances.

What may be the world's greenest museum is set to open in California on September 27th. The Museum goes so far as to be insulated with nontoxic, second-hand blue jeans and capped with a 2.5 acre living roof planted in native wildflowers.

"We're sending a message to our federal governments that states and provinces are moving forward in the absence of federal action," said CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, adding that the effort would spur renewable energy development and create "green jobs."

Researchers at MIT say they have made an energy storage breakthrough that could transform solar power from an alternative energy source to a mainstream source. Sunlight has the greatest potential of any power source to solve the world's energy problems.

Global warming is happening faster in Alaska than anywhere else in the US, but Gov. Sarah Palin still doubts that human action has anything to do with it. Palin's ambivalence on climate change puts her to the right of even President Bush.

With his VP choice of Sarah Palin, who advocates drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and doubts mankind's role in climate change, John McCain has gone from the greenest Republican to run for president to just another representative of big oil.

Solar electricity can contribute largely to the energy needs of two-thirds of the world's population - including those in remote areas - by 2030. This is the main conclusion of the Solar Generation report, published by The European Photovoltaic Industry.

Congress is scheduled to vote on comprehensive energy legislation in the coming days. As high energy costs are challenging households across America, legislators have offered a variety of policies to address the problem. Some are better than others.

If the world's 100 biggest cities were to whiten the roofs of all of their buildings and use more reflective pavement, the global cooling effect would be huge, a new study has concluded. Speaking at the Fifth Annual California Climate Change Research Conf

I've never had a yacht. I'll never have a yacht. But one thing I do have is a desire to own a yacht that I can take out on the weekends to sail away from the stress of reality. What would be even better was if the yacht was eco-friendly and ran on solar