This really should have been last week’s (Friday the 13th’s) Cool Green Morning — filled with The Worst Nightmares of whales, wasteful companies, and people who like to paint their cars a lot. (Are they going to take car painting away from us, too?) Prepare yourself — real scary stuff in today’s best green news [...]

Too bad that feeling guilty isn’t enough to reduce carbon emissions. But we’re excited that California passed efficiency standards to cut television electricity use in half by 2013. And how about the recovery of a rare giraffe species in Africa? Not bad news for a cool green morning.

There’ll be no more energy-sucking televisions in the state where TV was born, now that [...]

Feeling unlucky this Friday the 13th? Fortify yourself with the latest in green news — recycled diapers, undersea gliders, a historic comeback and a new way to shut up those global warming skeptics close to you (speaking of superstitious…)

So you’re at a family gathering, arguing with Uncle Climate Denier over the reality of climate change [...]

If it’s cool and green, we’ve got it this morning. Open your eyes and read on for the latest news about hybrids hitting pedestrians, tuna fishing killing albatross and the local benefits of nature tourism.

Are hybrids more likely to hit pedestrians and bicyclists than other car types, as a new study reports? Treehugger analyzes the data.
Andrew [...]

A few weeks ago I attended a “Green Festival” in Washington, D.C., tagged as the world’s largest environmental expo. As I walked around, I kept thinking about who this festival was really meant for. Everyone in attendance chose to go to (and pay to get in) this event. These are people who are already [...]

Halloween is hurtling at us like a thrown pumpkin…but there’s still time to duck and get the latest green news of the day…including how urine could hold the key to cheap auto fuel. (Remember: Practice safe gourd smashing this holiday.)

Do you run a company that pollutes, or do you love someone who does? CleanTechnica has [...]

Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there. Read all his posts.
Who’s going to lead the way for conservation in China? Local grass-roots groups? International NGOs? The government?
Here’s another thought: What about [...]

If you’re anything like me, you can’t get your day started without your daily serving of Cool Green Morning.  (Also, caffeine.  Lots and lots of caffeine.)  Read on to get your fix:

Big snakes are becoming a big problem, says the United States Geological Survey.  The group just issued a report concluding that, should the Burmese [...]

As hard as “living green” can be at home, it’s even harder on vacation. All the miles driven or flown, all the eating out…all the things you just can’t control.
Luckily, I just took a trip to what could be considered the greenest city in America: Portland, Ore.
But how green was my vacation? And what were [...]

Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy.
Over the last few months, I have been participating in a bipartisan commission — The Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests — that is focused on the connections between climate policy here in the United States and protecting tropical forests. The commission comprises some of the [...]