Americans need to curb our enthusiasm for cars before we drive ourselves down the road to ruin.Time and again, I run into evidence that we Americans just cannot think straight about how and when to drive our cars. I recently overheard two young professionals discussing their daily routine, which included early morning trips to the gym.

In Appalachia, the coal industry thrives on stripping the landscape—and people’s livelihoods.Rick Handshoe lives on the battle line. Explosions shake his house regularly, covering it with dust and debris and cracking its foundation. A convoy of supply trucks rumbles constantly past his front porch.

We don't normally publish the feedback from our Reader Surveys online, out of respect for the privacy of respondents (name and city are included in this section), but between the record amount or responses to our survey on President Obama and the passion with which our readers responded, we wanted to share them with our online readers.We've included some of our favorite answers without any identif

Let’s not only be green when summer’s here but also during the most wonderful time of the year.