Director Jon Kasdan comes from a family of filmmakers. His father served as screenwriter for classic motion pictures such as “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. His brother has directed star-studded, raunchy comedies like “Bad Teacher” and “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”.

“We didn’t really want to waste anyone’s time,” Jason Tippet says of his new documentary “Only The Young,” which he co-directed and shot with close friend Elizabeth Mims. Humble and laidback, but always quick to throw in a playful jab at the other, you couldn’t find two better people to capture the throes of 21st century adolescence.

Two professors at Arizona State University Polytechnic in east Mesa are exploring the feasibility of producing aviation fuel from the most humble of organisms — algae.

Standing at a gas station where regular unleaded was selling for $3.49 a gallon, Republican congressional candidate Dave Schweikert challenged opponent Rep. Harry Mitchell, D-Ariz., to help promote more domestic oil drilling.

Hurricane Katrina disrupted Gulf Coast petroleum output and rattled energy markets on Monday, sending crude-oil and natural-gas futures soaring and setting the stage for a spike in retail gasoline prices.

A while back, a prominent American told two close friends: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

SEATTLE - Enron Corp. manipulated the energy market practically every day during the 2000-01 power crunch and gouged Western customers for at least $1.1 billion, according to audiotapes and documents released Monday.

LITTLEROCK, Wash. - Of all the things convicted murderer Robert Knowles has been called during his 13 years behind bars, recycler hasn't been one of them. But there he was one morning, pitchfork in hand, composting food scraps from the main chow line and coffee grounds from prison headquarters - doing his part to "green" the prison.

Recently I spoke out in support of a critical effort underway in Arizona: keeping the state’s rooftop solar industry alive. Like school choice and healthcare choice, solar choice should be a core part of the Arizona agenda, and my party’s message.

Arizona Public Service and a Massachusetts-based company called GreenFuel Technologies Corp. have launched a project they hope will solve two problems at once — reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants while creating domestic fuel for motor vehicles.

Word has it a pastor in Texas staged a "bed-in" with his wife to promote the importance of, well, intimacy in marriage (my kids read this column, so, you get the idea).

Word has it a pastor in Texas staged a "bed-in" with his wife to promote the importance of, well, intimacy in marriage (my kids read this column, so, you get the idea).

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal officials on Friday approved a plan that sets aside 445 square miles of public land for the development of large-scale solar power plants, cementing a new government approach to renewable energy development in the West after years of delays and false starts.

Well, so much for all those jobs that were supposed to be created by the new First Solar plant in my neighborhood.

The Higley Unified School District was awarded $40,000 from the Arizona Department of Education's Innovative CTE Programs Project in Engineering, Bioscience, or Green Technologies Grant to fund Higley High School's Project Green STEM: Growing Green Careers of the Future.

With more than 300 days of sunshine a year, Arizona is an ideal place to utilize solar electricity. But the decision to invest in a solar installation on your home can be complicated.

WASHINGTON – The federal government identified two sites in Arizona Tuesday as hot spots for solar energy, part of a larger plan to spur development of utility-scale solar projects in six Western states.

Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus will get a 1-megawatt solar plant, with technology touted to produce the lowest-cost solar electricity available today.

The words “solar” and “Arizona” should be a no-brainer when we think of our state’s most powerful and abundant resource — the sun. With about 300 days of sunshine a year, we should be the leading source of solar energy in the country. We’re on our way.

The words “solar” and “Arizona” should be a no-brainer when we think of our state’s most powerful and abundant resource — the sun. With about 300 days of sunshine a year, we should be the leading source of solar energy in the country. We’re on our way.

My name is a Ken Verma and I am CEO of Vermaland. Our company is one of the larger land development companies in Phoenix.

The Valley of the Sun YMCA, the state’s oldest nonprofit, is going high-tech by partnering with Scout Solar, a Tempe business, to bring 1.6 megawatts of energy to 16 locations, three of which are in the East Valley.

A research group at Arizona State University is exploring more efficient ways of producing hydrogen from water, which could bring closer the day that Americans run vehicles on nonpolluting hydrogen instead of gasoline.

February 7, 2005