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Provides information on where both McCain and Obama stand on energy issues.

An update on the bio-fuels question Barack Obama has, as have many of us, changed his view on bio-fuels according to this Wired Magazine article

The idea of painting our roofs and roads white to offset global warming is not new, but a recent study has calculated just how significantly white surfaces could impact greenhouse gas emissions. Last week, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley presented their study at California's annual Climate Change Research Conference in Sacramento. If the 100 largest cities in the world replaced their dark roofs with white shingles and their asphalt-based roads with concrete or other light-colored material, it could offset 44 metric gigatons (billion tons) of greenhouse gases, the study shows. That amounts to more greenhouse gas than the entire human population emits in one year, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times. The strategy could also offset the growth in carbon dioxide emissions, which account for about 75% of greenhouse gases, for the next 10 years.

What began as a project to make the company's new headquarters as energy-efficient as possible blossomed into an endeavor that created the first net-zero electric commercial building in the country. Net zero means that the building produces all the elec

A pioneering study looking into the possibility of combining existing therapies to slow down cancer growth is showing encouraging early results. Elly Earls reports. A first-of-its-kind medical study at The Care Oncology Clinic on Harley Street, London, has started work on evaluating whether the use of a combination of safe, tolerable, existing, generic therapies could slow down cancer growth and improve survival times in patients for whom other treatments are no longer available or working.