Following my first top 37 green stories post yesterday, here’s some top green news and commentary from the past day or so.

Yes, I realize there’s quite a bit of crossover in the categories below, by the way. Try to put the stories in the best possible category here. I put them in multiple categories on the main news aggregation pages.

Also, I decided today to bold what I think are the best of the best, the top stories from each category.

There’s a key on the bottom indicating what the letters after each story title stand for.

Clean Power

• New Solar Thermal System Sucks More Energy from the Sun (CT)
• Yes, wind and wave power are renewable; New Scientist pulls a Charlie Sheen (CP)
• Home Solar Panels with No Upfront Costs (CF)
• Nuclear Vs. Coal: A No-Win Ethical Dilemma (HP)
• Electric Vehicles: Where Do the Emissions Go? (HP)
• No Nukes is Good Nukes: Cassandra Cries Again (GWIR)
• Germany Abandons Nuclear Power (PS)
• World Bank to favour green investments over coal (BB)

More Clean Power News & Commentary.

Clean Transportation

• Green Speed: FIA President Wants All-electric Racing by 2013 (Gas)
• The Auto Industry’s Smear Campaign on Cycling (P)
• Raising the Status of Public Transit (P)
• Bamboo and Rattan Electric Car Wows in Milan (Gas)
• Green Cars: Evaluating How Green They Are (CT)

More Clean Transportation News.

Politics

• Salazar blasts Gulf disaster company Transocean for touting “best year in safety” – Transocean now says statement “may have been insensitive.” (CP)
• Retaking Capitol Hill This Week: D.C. Strategist JW Randolph on Next Steps for Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement (HP)
• The environMENTALIST: What can we deduce about Obama from his additions to his big energy speech? (CP)
• The tentacles of the Kochtopus: What you need to know about the financiers of the Radical Right (CP)
• GOP’s austerity budget apparently gives Big Oil a free ride (CP)
• China to Tax Energy Usage of Energy-Intensive Industrial Sectors (CT)
• A Plea for Presidential Leadership on Sustainable Energy (HP)

More Environmental, Global Warming, and Clean Energy Politics News.

Climate Science

Pretty clear, but rather than strictly stick to science news here, we sometimes include stories that discuss climate science politics, since that is such a critical issue today.

• Texas’ Worst Drought in 44 Years Driving Food Prices Up (EDB)
• AMA: Climate change is affecting the health of patients — and physicians are starting to see the results (CP)
• Department of Commerce appoints and convenes first Climate Assessment Advisory Committee meeting (NOAA)
• Climate Change & Health: Q&A with Changing Planet, Changing Health coauthors Paul Epstein, MD, and Dan Ferber (PS)
• Antarctica Under Stress From Human Impact (PS)

More Climate Science News & Commentary.

Green Living

Green living is green living…

• Grow Your Own Food Challenge: A Late Start (EDB)
• Craft Recycled: Ugly Painting to Chalkboard Sign (GU)
• The USDA BioPreferred Program: Consumer Empowerment… or Confusion? (S)
• Improving Your Home’s Energy Efficiency with Insulation (NP)
• Think energy efficiency isn’t working? Think again (G)

More Green Living Stories.

Food

This section includes food news and stories that are related to the environment.

• Farmers Not To Blame For High Food Prices (HP)
• Grow Your Own Food Challenge: A Late Start (EDB)
• NEW REPORT: Green Jobs in a Sustainable Food System (GFA)
• Sales of organic products in UK fall by 5.9% (G)
• Container Garden Update: In Like a Lion (EDB)

More Food News and Commentary.

Animals

Who doesn’t love cool animal stories? And, of course, if you love animals, you probably want to help protect them from cruelty as well, so we stick a bit of that in here, too.

• A World Away From the Gulf, Penguins Fight Oil Too (HP)
• Human Virus Linked to Deaths of Two Mountain Gorillas (PS)
• 10-year window to save reef: expert (SMH)
• T. Rex’s Chinese Cousin Discovered, Weight Equivalent To A School Bus (HP)
• Anne the elephant free at last (AA)

More Animal Stories.

Source Key:

• AA: Animal Aid
• BB: Bloomberg
• CF: CalFinder
• CP: Climate Progress
• CT: CleanTechnica
• EDB: Eat Drink Better
• G: Guardian
• GFA: Green for All
• GU: greenUPGRADER
• Gas: Gas2.org
• GWIR: Global Warming is Real
• HP: Huffington Post
• NOAA: NOAA — hope you know what that stands for 
• NP: Natural Papa
• P: Planetizen
• R: Reuters
• S: Sustainablog
• SMH: Sydney Morning Herald

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Zachary Shahan (1960 Posts)

I'm the director of CleanTechnica, the most popular clean energy website in the world, and Planetsave, a leading green and science news site. I've been covering green news of various sorts since 2008, and I've been especially focused on solar energy, electric vehicles, bicycling, and wind energy for the past few years. You can also find my work on Scientific American, Reuters, Think Progress, GE's ecomagination site, several sites in the Important Media network, & many other places. To connect on your favorite social network, go to: zacharyshahan.com