In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?