Outrageous new technology taking to...and from - the skies.

It's easy to get caught up in the Tesla Motors fantasy. A slickly styled $100,000 roadster with Lotus origins, a few thousand laptop batteries in the ass, and two measly cents per mile to run it. What's not to love?

Today is the second day of the Green Festival in Seattle. The Green Festival, a joint project of Global Exchange and Co-op America, is the largest green living event in the U.S. and also a great opportunity to see and explore so much of the green world

Don't call us the Grinches of Halloween just because we eat our pumpkin rather than prop it up as a doorstop decoration. Actually, we're on a mission to resurrect the reputation of the poor pumpkin.

Wal-Mart says it will lower the amount of mercury in high-efficiency compact fluorescent light bulbs it sells, a move to reduce an environmental downside to a technology that allows ordinary consumers to help reduce global warming.

Los Angeles County officials agreed today to consider a range of options -- including an outright ban -- for dealing with the ubiquitous plastic grocery bags that can litter roadways, clog storm drains and kill marine life.