A recently developed project called Catalog Choice intends to put a cap on the amount of junk in our mailboxes. Just in time for the holidays!

Computer maker IBM has found a way to save money, reduce waste, and contribute to the development of the solar power industry with just one smart innovation—recycling defective semiconductor chips and sending the recovered refined silicon to manufacturers of photovoltaic solar cells.

I wouldn’t exactly call myself selfless, or "eco-friendly" for that matter. Apart from recycling my old salsa jars and scrunched Diet Coke cans, I really can’t be bothered with the latest "eco-mandates" or what "trading on carbon offsets" is supposed to mean. It all sounds like white noise to me. I tune it out—definitely somebody else’s problem.

Environmentalists are overjoyed at news that the House Natural Resources Committee last week approved legislation rewriting the antiquated General Mining Law of 1872. That legislation, originally signed by President Ulysses S. Grant, was designed to promote the development and settlement of publicly owned lands on the American frontier.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff last week used his Congressionally granted waiver power to overturn the suspension of construction on seven miles of fence along the American-Mexican border in Arizona.