Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Learn how your resource consumption is affecting the Earth.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Avoid the heat island with a few planting tips.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: A handy website to help you stay active and fit.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: This summer, keep the house cool with these tips.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: It's not as hard or as expensive as you may have thought.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Quick tips for expanding your normal recycling routine.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Some of the biggest companies are meeting the challenge.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Could your home go solar? Find out.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Smarter shipping and retail makes these companies green.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Keep lemons handy for all these great tips.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Thriftiness is a green practice.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Learn how to easily recycle water in your house.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Don't sweat, try these simple tips in and around the gym.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: These helpful tips will keep you green and warm.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Save water around the house with very little effort.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Make your drive to work a little more green.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Check out these companies doing their part and learn yours.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Tips to enhancing our energy efficiency.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Have your voice heard where it counts, and lead by example.

With tax season just around the corner, this video will show you where you could receive some tax credits.

Brighter Living with Jill Cordes: Cookout the green way with these tips and products!

These photos of service dogs went viral after part of their training took place at a play at the Stratford Festival in Canada.

See sculptors from around the world turn piles of sand into beautiful (but temporary) art at the World Championship of Sand Sculpting.

Mike Wendland shares a website's tips for extreme jack-o-lantern carving.

Sculptor visits construction sites, which he calls "gold mines," and turns the waste into works of art.

Video: Move over, Georgia O'Keeffe! Masterpieces by Autumn de Forest have fetched nearly $250,000. She tells Matt Lauer, 'I love to paint' and 'I do it every da

One scientist found the farthest spot from a McDonald's restaurant in the U.S. -- and went there, eating McDonald's fare all the way.

Eight year old artistic genius has been compared to masters such as Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.

More than 1,000 visual art submissions are narrowed down to 5 winners in a unique contest to find compelling images that can be persuasive voices for the enviro

Artist Dave Rittinger's shirts are beautifully leafy to wear and easily compostable at end of use -- and scratchily impractical to wear.

Join 350.org and thousands of local activists to create one of 15 gigantic aerial art pieces that'll be visible from space!

"The Silent Evolution" by Jason deCaires Taylor is 400 permanent sculptures in Mexican waters.

TckTckTck's mosaic:EARTH combines 'deep zoom' technology with social action to encourage people around the world to join in the growing sustainability movement.

'Over the River' would suspend silver fabric over miles of Arkansas River.

At the Cancun climate talks, one art installation dominated the headlines at a turning point in history.

Experts of Paleolithic art in France say some cave drawings have a reoccurring theme.

Artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang find materials for their eco-art pieces by picking up plastic debris from the beach.

Designer Benjamin Jones wants to erect the Sustainable TreeHouse, an eco-friendly 'interactive playground' on New York City's Governors Island. But he needs you

Hundreds of restauranteurs and food industry professionals gathered to experience the new tastes and trends for 2011 at the 18th annual International Restaurant

Artist Patterson Clark naturally 'harvests' areas plagued by weeds and uses the leaves, roots and stems of much-loathed plants to produce handcrafted art suppli

Here’s a look at 18 of the world’s most stunning treehouses and the unique stories behind them.

Alan Kimble Fahey, the hirsute ex-phone service technician behind a folksy, sprawling rural California compound known as Phonehenge West, is found guilty of vio

Brighten up a humdrum room while celebrating your favorite wilderness area with beloved illustrator Charley Harper's National Park poster series available at th

Enter The Nature Conservancy's digital photography contest for a chance to see your work on the cover of the nonprofit's annual calendar.

A young New Yorker buys, via Craigslist, an uninhabited 91-acre island in Lake Superior with plans to create a small, sustainable artist residency while keeping

Here are 15 talented eco-artists who are redefining art's relationship with Mother Nature.

Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of Aug. 14-20, 2011, including the not-so-nutty professor behind the The Periodic Table of the Elements an

Using a repurposed trash bin, Berkeley-based artist Gregory Kloehn creates Oscar the Grouch's dream home: A comfortable, one-room dwelling complete with hardwoo

One man's trash is another man's art. Take a look at six artists who have taken discarded items and turned them into upscale, high-dollar artwork.

A compilation of the best original stories from Mother Nature Network for the week, including Bear Grylls' eating habits, a webcam of Mount Everest and much mor