The evaluation report three years after Double Up Food Bucks started giving incentives to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients

Ideal Bite: Are you getting very, very sleepy? by Heather Stephenson "You will be if you follow this tip. Conventional anti-insomnia pills work, but if you don't wanna lose sleep over side effects and potentially addictive ingredients, induce

As you walk across the stately lawns of many college campuses, you might not put much thought into what it takes to keep those lawns so neatly trimmed and manicured. Well, that is unless you're being woken up after a long night of "studying" to the

Artists installed a grass carpet through a French town to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its arts and nature trail programs.

The university brings the outdoors in to help students relax and focus on studying.

Addicted to a lush green yard? It’s time to change the paradigm and kick the grass to the curb.

Here at TreeHugger we've long documented how every major religious group has come out supporting strong action on climate change, so the following irony, pointed out by Climate Progress shouldn't come as a shock: Even

Some timely examples of the intersection of Islam and environmental stewardship, both coming via the good folks over at Green Prophet: 1) Any new mosque built in Qatar must be eco-friendly, and 2) a new green guide to

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

The electricity grid can handle a ban, ten years earlier than law makers are aiming for.

Solar power is a wonderful thing but the benefits are not evenly distributed.

As Asian countries buy more electronics, the piles of discarded devices are increasing and it's putting people in danger.

It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen?

The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.

What's more fun than riding with 25,000 people through car-free streets on a beautiful day (and night)?

One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!

This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.

It's up to you to decide if you want to take the shortest route, the cleanest one, or the quietest one.

Books aren't just for reading -- you can carve incredible works out of them too, as this artist has done with this 24-volume set.

They are one of the most iconic features of the city, but some of them are really scary.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

Part art, part meditative process, these works are created with plant material harvested from the artist's urban garden.

The age of vehicular cycling is coming to an end; cyclists want equity, not equality

They do this so well in Montreal.

When reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the Environmental Protection Agency considered just five independent studies, and 27 industry-funded studies.

The #1 most-used herbicide in the world is in you, me, and our pee. Should we do something?

Weed killer, it's what's for breakfast! Glyphosate found in 43 of 45 conventional oat products tested by EWG.

EWG tested 28 brands of conventional oat-based cereals; they all had glyphosate residue, most of them above healthy standards

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

It's basic math. Sure, e-scooter injuries are way up. But let's keep it in perspective and look at what the real problem is.

The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being made in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades.

If every home in the U.S. switched just one inefficient light for an Energy Star one, that would be equivalent to taking 800,000 vehicles off the road in term of greenhouse gas emissions

Taking advantage of the Federal stimulus package, Maryland's Governor O'Malley announced the State's intention to purchase hybrid 100 hybrid diesel/electric buses for $62 million.

Baltimore residents, get ready to get in on the smart grid party. Baltimore Gas & Electric has just announced that it has filed paper with the Maryland Public Service

Wikipedia carries a definition of Arabbers which includes this:An arabber (or a-rab) is a

Name calling is so much fun. Maryland State Senator Richard Colburn, R-Cambridge, thought he was having some at our expense when he characterized

Back in 2009, the EPA was sued for "abdicating leadership" on protecting Chesapeake Bay. Part of clean water advocates' anger was directed at a lack of geographical targeting for agricultural conservation funding. But

When I wrote about Robert Llewellyn's solar car charging in rainy England, commenters noted that solar at home is unlikely to benefit most car drivers, as they will typically charge overnight. Situations will obviously vary

Residents in southern Maryland have long felt like they live in an 'energy sacrifice zone.' They already have a nuclear power plant and now are trying to stop a liquid natural gas port.

Not sure if you really want to live in a tiny house? This tiny home builder is making these cabins from salvaged materials, which visitors can test out at an eco-retreat in Maryland.

Veterinarians built this sweet mini-wheelchair for a turtle with a shattered shell.

A traditional dwelling has been preserved by renovating it to include a new office, library, kitchen and guest room.

Diverging from the Sprinter van conversion trend, this man revamped an old life-saving vehicle into his own tiny home.

As subsidy-free renewables proliferate, it will become harder to derail decarbonization.

And we thought it was all about symbolism...

In a matter of seconds, thousands of lives and dreams were destroyed in Haiti last month.

Jeff has already reported how solar panels are supporting relief efforts in Haiti, and April has covered the use of biochar stoves to help Haitians too. (Though some commenters remained unconvinced.) Now another piece

Growing up in California, I was never really scared of earthquakes -- they happened frequently and most caused little, if any,

The shocking photo above is of gigantic piles of human feces left in the open air at a dump in Haiti. While some in the "developed world" (I always hated that term), may turn their noses up when we recommend composting toilets

Some time ago I posted on the efforts of Joe Jenkins and GiveLove.org to promote humanure composting toilets in Haiti. But this was nothing new. In fact, one of the non-profit partners behind that