Nonprofit group Climate Counts will release its second annual rankings of 56 consumer companies today on how they measure greenhouse gas emissions, their plans to reduce them and how fully they disclose their efforts.

Remember the days when $100 a gallon for oil used to be unthinkable? The world's largest investment banks predicts we'll see twice that price in the next few months.

Launched just last month, Environmental BioMass Energy will provide financing of $66 million for a new plant that will translate cow manure into 20 megawatts of energy.

Socially responsible investment fund Calvert ranked U.S. homebuilding companies on sustainability. The results aren't pretty.

"Resomation" -- a corpse-liquification method used for years by veterinarians -- could be the greenest way to "go." Coming soon to a funeral home near you!

You go all the way smelling like a fish factory, but not only do you save the gas bill with vegetable oils, but you also help save the earth. I say let's dump Richard Bronson and his pesky airlines, and we'll enjoy the Virgins we find on I-5.

Did you know that the Subaru assembly plant in Lafayette, Indiana was the first ever car manufacturing plant to achieve zero landfill status?

If your trees are shading your neighbor's solar panels, you could be fined $1,000 a day. The 1978 California Solar Shade Act deems shading trees a nuisance. In Sunnyvale, CA, Prius driving Carolynn Bissett and Richard Treanor were convicted under the law.

Tapping renewable resources instead of fossil fuels reduces greenhouse gases, as well as mining wastes, and many other sources of air and water pollution. So how do you find out whether a home solar- or wind-electric system will work for you?

The Department of Energy has just pledged $5.4 million in funding and technical assistance for solar power in 12 major cities including Denver, Philadephia, Seattle, and Houston.