Renew America serves as a clearinghouse for information on the environment. Renew America distributes reports, pamphlets, and books to educators, organizations, and the general public in an attempt to fulfill its primary goal of "renewing...

The Renewable Natural Resources Foundation (RNRF) was founded in 1972 to further education regarding renewable resources in the scientific and public sectors. According to the organization, it seeks to "promote the application of sound...

Any naturally occurring, finite resources that diminish with use, such as oil and coal. In terms of the human timescale, a nonrenewable resource cannot be renewed once it has been consumed. Most nonrenewable resources can only be renewed over geologic...

A NATURAL RESOURCE that, because of its biological nature, is self-renewing, e.g. game, fish, woodland. A greater yield can be obtained from it by growing it in an artificial environment as, for example, in a fish farm. See also: non-renewable...

A natural resource qualifies as a renewable resource if it is replenished by natural processes at a rate comparable to its rate of consumption by humans or other users. Resources such as solar radiation, tides, and winds are perpetual resources that are...

In an effort to further his bid to make Nevada the renewable energy capital of the world, Sen. Harry Reid last week released a report outlining the potential economic benefits of developing solar, wind, biomass and geothermal power stations in the state.The report states that...

Sierra Pacific Resources, parent company of Nevada Power, is seeking proposals for renewable energy resources. Nevada Power and sister company Sierra Pacific Power will consider proposals on solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and other resources eligible for portfolio energy credits under the Nevada renewable portfolio...

Former Vice President Al Gore has collected nearly 300,000 electronic signatures asking Congress to take action on global warming, Gore said in an entry on his Web site Friday. Gore said the signatures demonstrate "that hundreds of thousands of people share my sense of urgency"...

Emerging economies such as China are justified in holding back on fighting greenhouse gas emissions until richer polluters like the United States do more to solve the problem, former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday.The world's top climate scientists warned in a report last week...