Speaking to a group of 500,000 youth on Sunday's open-air Mass, the Pope urged, "Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth....We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible."

He spoke of the tension and conflict caused by water shortages in some parts around the world, and the environmental impact of recent forest fires in Italy and Greece.  read more »

An Erie cancer researcher, John Kanzius, has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that may lead to the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.

He happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer.

Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations. He explained that the radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.  read more »

A simple alignment of goals among developers and a commitment to green building is all we would need to change the face of building construction during a time when construction is booming.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development released a survey last week which found that real estate and construction costs of green buildings are overestimated by 300%. The 1400 respondents also understated greenhouse gas emissions from building as 19% of the world's total while the actual number is 40%.  read more »

The Forest Department of India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh, along with the help of farmers and students, planted 10.5 million trees in a single day.

"In fact, we have overshot the target," said state forestry chief V.N. Garg. "The sites can also be seen on Google Earth and the detailed reports (on plantation figures) are being sent to the office of the Guinness book of world records."  read more »

PCWorld.com released its list of the top ten greenest tech products today. The list included laptops, a solar powered charger for cell phones, cameras, IPods and other tech gadgets, and even a green web hosting company.

Nokia made the list with its N95 cell phone which handles WiFi, GPS, email, text-messaging, web browsing, plays video and music, has a 5 megapixel camera that also takes video. The company will even recycle the phone for free. Nokia recently topped Greenpeace's June 2007 Guide to Greener Electronics.  read more »