In exchange for cultivating someone else's backyard for a year, this activist is experimenting with an increasingly simpler lifestyle, documented step-by-step online.

If you can’t decide between a fruit smoothie or an iced tea, this is the drink for you.

Lawns use up way too much water.

Docked electric cars can be worse than dockless scooters for pedestrians, but the UEone is a step in the right direction.

Do we need hyperloops? No, we need trains that work.

photo: J. Novak Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

Ambitious thieves spend a month torching apart a Pennsylvania bridge

Provoked by questionable propaganda, a group of scientists is setting out to offer an antidote.

Evonik and Siemens announce two-year project to demonstrate feasibility of "technical photosynthesis" using eco-electricity to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals

After all, who wouldn't want a glass of "pure glacial water filtered through lava"?

From soothing stress to providing weird minerals you didn't know you need, iced tea provides more than just a refreshing boost.

It's time for some fareness.

Explaining climate science to kids is challenging, which is why clever animated videos can help.

Not just for barbecues, some companies are switching over completely.

How big of a locavore are you? Could you eat only foods that were available to Native Americans before 1600?

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

Updated curriculum will help them to navigate the emotions associated with the climate crisis.

A new study shows that all-plastic tea bags release billions of particles into hot water.

It's to time to jump off the consumption train and embrace the art of repair.

Some moth species have evolved noise-cancelling abilities that are more efficient than today's sound engineering technology.

A Brooklyn dinner party turns "dumpster diving" into an informative meal.

Charred wood never looked so good.

It's an old-fashioned skill, but it's still relevant in today's world.

It has become a trillion dollar industry where nobody wins.

The OCADU project won a Wood Works! award and will probably win a lot more to come.

The answer is pretty surprising.

Schools are closing classrooms and going online all over the world. This may be as much of an opportunity as it is a crisis.

You would think that attending a conference on sustainable tourism in Costa Rica would be a bit bland: yes, they're very green, we know. But just because this Central

David Masters lives in a yurt. But it isn't just a home, he preaches what he practices in an "alternative learning center that provides opportunities for people to develop and reflect on their values and to consider how they might take an active role

Even in the dark pit of poverty, where rays of hope shine their dimmest, there's often still light enough for a new life to take hold.

This pandemic may be an extinction event for the traditional university lecture.

More than six months since tar sands oil spilled into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood, two homes have just been leveled by Exxon in order to clean up oil that was found under their foundations.

The omission of ecological services in economics is the equivalent of double bookkeeping: one set that looks (relatively) rosy for us and another for our children.

Researchers are developing computer simulations that can improve agricultural success.

A diverse team of women from the forest product sector got together for a green cause.

Remember staring out the window in math class as a kid? Or counting the minutes until spelling was over so you could go to recess? Project Learning Tree (PLT) embraces the fact that students would rather be outside than in ...

Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6-10, 2019, with National Teacher Day on May 7. Every year, Project Learning Tree (PLT) recognizes the educators who have made the most significant contributions to PLT with the Leadership in Education award.

Courtney Hatt and David Braginsky are working to crowd-fund a cafe and cat rescue in San Francisco.

Modern building codes and zoning regulations, while helping to set safety standards that can save lives, can also serve as big barriers to building small, sensible, and affordable dwellings with alternative materials and techniques.

A Brazilian firm translates small-spaces ideas into a cute shopping mall shop.

Actually, the student designs steal the show every year at ICFF, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair held annually in New York. This year was not quite up to Pratt's spectacular exhibit from last year, but was close. Parsons I think Parsons the

Armani has some explaining to do. But she is, of course, an anteater, and they're notoriously tight-lipped.

It's boxy, aluminum exterior hides a cushy bed, and a convenient galley kitchen -- all powered by the sun.

It's the season of rampant zucchini and copious cucumbers. People will give them away to you in big paper bags. What to do if you don't relish loaves of zucchini bread?

Most glass buildings are a problem, but just banning them is the wrong solution.

It calls for more support of bikes, walking and transit, banning ICE-powered cars sooner.

No, you don't need to rush out and buy a bigger house if you've got more family members than bedrooms.

Nutrient cycling is important. But it's not something you want to get arrested for.

Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy