Can California’s new energy economy — green economy — save the Golden State? The nation? We’ll go to California to ask the questions.

In today’s first hour, Whole Earth guru Stewart Brand and energy expert Amory Lovins debated whether the U.S. should build more nuclear power plants in the effort to reduce carbon emissions.

Whole Earth Catalog guru Stewart Brand now says we need nuclear energy and genetically modified food. We’ll ask him if he’s selling out, or getting real.

Would Disney World shut down at ten-dollar-a-gallon gas? Chris Steiner says so. And a lot more changes, too, on the way to twenty-dollars-a-gallon.

No cars. No waste. No gas or oil. We go to Abu Dhabi, where plans are underway to build the world’s first carbon-neutral city.

Will green technology really lead us out of our economic bust? We ask Silicon Valley legend John Doerr and the head of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp.

We look at the McCain and Obama visions on the giant issues of energy and the environment.

Is “energy independence” an impossible dream? Energy contrarian Robert Bryce says the U.S. can’t afford to kick its foreign oil habit. We’ll hear from him, and the pushback.

Half of all electricity in America is generated from coal. As oil wanes and world energy demand grows, coal’s role is destined to only grow bigger.
The problem is, coal is dirty. Carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants are a major contributor to global warming.
Five years ago, the Bush administration announced what it called one [...]