We come across a lot of interesting ideas and innovative solutions, but we choose only a few to discuss in detail. The best of the stories we don't cover get selected and collated as headlines in News and Views. It's like a little Worldchanging news service. Here's the news for February. -Alex

1- Feb

The Mouth Revolution

Al Gore Nobel Nominee

UAE Has Biggest 'Ecological Footprint'

Calif. Lawmaker: Turn Off Old-Fashioned Bulbs

Sugar in The Gas Tank? It Might Run Your Car Someday

2-Feb

Climate Change Only One Symptom of a Stressed Planet Earth

Wal-Mart CEO Announces Company-Wide Sustainability Plan

Princeton Profs Drive 'Wedges' Into Policy Debate

The Greenness of Cities

Top Multinationals Pledge to Cut Carbon Pollution

3-Feb

WC Book in NY Times

French Students to Get Open-Source Software on USB Key

Worms + Garbage = Green Success

BP Funds Biofuel Research With $500M

Tokyo's Sky City

5-Feb

All U.K. Pupils To Be Given Lessons in Climate Change

Chavez Takes Up Energy Conservation

Vandana Shiva on Food Relocalisation

Solar Power For Developing Nations

Global Call to Action for Earth

6-Feb

On the Climate Change Beat, Doubt Gives Way to Certainty

Kudzu Considered for Potential As Fuel Source

Five Axioms of Sustainability

Carbon-Free Living: China's Green Leap Forward

Human's Ecological Footprint in 2015 and Amazonia Revealed

7-Feb

Inherit the Wind

Limits on Vehicle Emissions Proposed by Europe

Cold Storage Solution For Global Warming?

UNEP Meeting Warns of Impact of Biofuel Production

PlanetTran Launches First All-Hybrid Airport Car Service

8-Feb

7 Ways to Save the World

Vegetarian Is the New Prius

Tighter Controls Needed for Nanotechnology, Says UN Report

Mining Heat From the Earth? New Technology Shows Promise

Will 'Green' Building Be the Future of New Orleans?

9-Feb

Branson launches $25m climate bid

Eating Fossil Fuels

Environmentalism May Help Your Corporate Image, but Will It Keep You in the Black?

Organic Clothing Enters Realm of High Fashion

What Are the Major Obstacles for Sustainable Energy?

11-Feb

Deforestation Main Challenge for UNEP

Fridges Could Save Power For a Rainy Day

Manure: You May Be Walking on It Soon

Solar Power Heats Up

Software Patch Could Improve Car Engine Efficiency

12-Feb

Jet-setters Pledge to Ditch Air Travel to Save the Environment

Do Fluorescent Bulbs Light the Way to the Future?

The Day After Today

Hybrids Could Turn Big US Truck Fleets Green

Green Investments Key to Economic Prosperity

13-Feb

Cities are the Key to Green Development

Brazil's Lula to Challenge Bush on Environment

Climate Change Concerts 'to Dwarf Live Aid'

Time to Begin 'Adapting' to Climate Change?

Biology Goes Open Source

14-Feb

A Concerted Effort

The Green Machine

New Zealand Should Aim to be World's First Carbon-Neutral Country

MIT Reactor Aids Study of Potential Energy Source

Next-Gen Biofuels Move Beyond Corn and Soy

15-Feb

Think Small

British Columbia Announces Major Green Initiatives

China to Promise Cuts in Greenhouse Gases

Worldmapper: The World as You've Never Seen it

Wind and Sun Powered Base Station Powers Up in Africa

17-Feb

Politicians Sign New Climate Pact

The Heated Debate Over Citizenre

China Envisions Environmentally Friendly 'Eco-City.'

Biggest Carbon-burial Test Will Hunt for Leaks

MySpace-style Websites Perfect for Disaster Survival

19-Feb

Plug-in Has 3-Wheel Drive

1 Million OLPCs Already On Order

Tackling Climate Change Will Require Expertise From Several Fields

Researcher Cites Need For a 'Small View' of the Environment

Data Centers' Growing Power Demands

20-Feb

A 'Beme' is a Meme spread by Blogs

Data Centers' Growing Power Demands

Nanotech Battery Claims to Solve Electric Car Woes

Creating Power From Wasted Heat

Australia to Ban Old-Style Light Bulbs

21-Feb

Wild grass could hold key to clean fuels of the future

Business Calls For Carbon Targets

While Housing Withers, "Green" Materials Bloom

World Bank Needs $10 bln Climate Fund

‘Waste Membrane’ Could Help Crops Conserve Water

22-Feb

Linking Capital Markets and Sustainability

Do Sustainable Cities Have a Future?

How To Create An Efficient Fossil-Fuel-Free Economy

New All-in-one Disaster Relief System

Homeowners, Builders Tackle Water Scarcity

23-Feb

History vs. Homogeneity in New Orleans Housing Fight

Afghan Women Grow Trees to Lift Their Own Lives

Capturing Carbon with Enzymes

MIT Researchers Design Stackable Car of the Future

Wedging Sustainability Into Public Consciousness

25-Feb

'Ten Commandments' Could Improve Fisheries Management

In Big Buyout, Utility to Limit New Coal Plants

Cheap Solar Power Poised o Undercut Oil and Gas By Half

The Resilient World

Stars to catch 'Green' Rides to the Red Carpet

26-Feb

"Inconvenient Truth" wins documentary Oscar

Can Termites Save the World?

GOOD Magazine: Nuclear Weapons Transparency

Will Cellulosic Ethanol Take Off?

Living in Green Neighborhoods Associated with Reduced Risk of Being Overweight

27-Feb

An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’

Investing in Science: A Cautionary Tale

Blow For Beer as Biofuels Clean Out Barley

11 Computer Makers Launch Effort to Cut Electricity Use

United Arab Emirates Team Up With MIT To Go Renewable

28-Feb

A Practical Use for Waste Methane

Green-Collar Jobs for Urban America

Panel Urges EU to Scrap Funds For 'Dirty Energy'

Why Ecosystems Matter to Business

Scientists Offer Plan to U.N. for Civilization to Rise to Climate Challenge