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The world’s largest retailer of home furnishing had a busy year last year, and not just in retails sales. IKEA just released its 2010 Sustainability Report highlighting its significant achievements in both social and environmental responsibility and sustainability.

Land reclamation by developers of the Canadian oil sands and environmental regulation by the Alberta and Canadian governments are not keeping pace with the rapid rate of land disturbance and project development, according to an expert panel commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada.

However, the panel also found that oil sands production has limited impact on the local environment and people.

The U.S. state of Florida has sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for enacting stricter water standards on the state after an agreement between the two had been reached several years ago.

In a study to be outlined in the November issue of Scientific American, Stanford University Professor Mark Z. Jacobson and University of California-Davis researcher Mark Delucchi layout numbers and a scheme to power the world on 100% clean and renewable energy.

While the site of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico might have been declared legally dead less than a week ago, the fishing industry along the Gulf Coast is still struggling to survive.

Desalination is big business. Worldwide, thirteen thousand plants currently produce more than 12 billion gallons of purified water a day.

How we manage our energy resources is, without doubt, the key to unlock our future on this planet. A future that, depending on which "expert" you listen to seems bleak, even non-existent. 

Since diving into the deep end when it comes to energy issues, almost every day sees new fascinating concepts, approaches, and technologies.