Examples of government looking out for the public good by rational regulation are resurfacing.

People are finally beginning to take this issue seriously.

A new study says students in high-achieving schools are an 'at-risk' group.

Personal finance writer Michelle McGagh weighs in on how to save money effectively.

Discover the once-gorgeous South Pacific island where all your plastic trash ends up.

Our brains can't handle it.

The static, traditional lecture classroom is slowly on its way out. Here's how the flexible classroom of the future might be furnished.

This smart system automatically frees up floorspace and can learn your preferences.

The modular MoreFloor system lets you store things in your floor -- clothes, shoes, even a bed.

This might be a model for how to live lightly in a circular economy.

Yum...there's nothing like homemade applesauce. It always tastes better when you've made it yourself. Our question is: How many food miles will this DIY job add?

Every day, New York City residents waste 270,000 pounds of food. Want to know what that looks like? Here's an unforgettable way to imagine it - fill up a subway train with the equivalent amount of apples, and release it onto the

It has challenged designers since the invention of the bar code: What to do about those stupid little labels?

Lots of great Food Day events across the country, but New York's will be particularly tasty and loud.

Dr. David Katz argues that poor nutrition is a greater threat than the coronavirus, but we think both are concerning.

Architects all over the world should be doing this too.

This month, BookHugger presents The Death and Life of Monterey Bay by Stephen R. Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka. Readers can order a discounted copy today to get ready for the live chat with the authors on June 13 at 3pm

When everything seems to be falling apart in the world, the most useful thing you can do is focus on your own community and making it a better place.

All because people are too lazy to find a sink.

The 2019 rating by EWG finds that most sunscreens contain sketchy ingredients and/or don't offer adequate protection.

After spending most of her life in search and rescue, this grand 13-year-old Australian Shepherd is enjoying her golden years with her companion human.

Eco-friendly sandals are nice, but they won't save the planet.

Other websites shriek "the end of capitalism" but really, it is hardly that.

Boom-and-bust cycles are no coincidence.

As the global economy wildly fluctuates and suddenly out-of-work people struggle to pay the bills, can old-fashioned bartering make a comeback?

Actors Emma Thompson and Michelle Thrush are traveling with their daughters to the North Pole, as part of an Greenpeace campaign to create an international sanctuary in the Arctic.

Activists risk arrest in an effort to prevent slow oil drilling exploration in the Arctic.

Researchers discover how Arctic foxes modify their dens to make the surrounding land more fertile.

Scientists discovered that plants in the Arctic are growing twice the height.

As melting ice opens up new potential for exploitation in the Arctic, a new ban aims to protect much of the fragile ecosystem.

Svalbard's wild reindeer are surviving warmer winters by foraging on, yes, seaweed.

How do you make good design accessible to people with small spaces and small budgets?

These pink and blue-tinted photographs suggest that our biology has a big influence on the way we perceive reality.

"Come touch the Greenland ice sheet and be touched by it."

I wasn't sure if we’d covered Earth Weave’s wool and hemp carpets, but I was wrong. Years ago, Kara had mentioned them in a nice little primer on Finding Solutions to Toxic Carpeting. What makes Earth Weave noteworthy is that they claim their Bio-Floor

Not much point in having a healthy house if you spend all day in an unhealthy office.

A Brooklyn-based design studio turns to digital animation to generate the patterns for these striking rugs made out of recycled carpet pieces.

This water filtration solution requires no electricity, has no moving parts, and can be built affordably with locally available materials.

Current water treatment can't remove these wastes that are increasingly implicated in serious environmental effects

Last week news broke that microplastics are found in 93% of bottled water and the highest levels ever were found in an English river. Can we ever clean this up?

The aquatic moss clears 80 percent of arsenic from a container of water in less than an hour.

The agency tried to suppress a major toxicology report on perfluoroalkyl chemicals, but now it's been quietly released online -- with alarming conclusions.

It's uncomfortable to face the source of the pollution.

Cities can be a lot of fun seems to be the message of awesome video from Argentinean creator.

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko from The Associated Press have a blockbuster piece of reporting on the dozens of ways Monsanto's chemical fertilizers and pesticides are poisoning the people of Argentina.

Designed for safety and comfort, this sharing bike looks similar to a standard bike, allowing friends to easily hop on and off.

Celebrate Penguin Awareness Day on January 20th with the fabulous discovery of 'Near Threatened' Magellanic penguins.

It's controversial and probably cost the party leader his job, but there is much to like in it.

She gets around, little Miss Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. First she was the face of super trendy and super expensive Burberry. Then she launched her own line for People Tree.

The Indignados (or "Outraged") have been camping in over 60 Spanish cities for almost 10 days now. What started on the 15th of May (hence the tag #15-M) via social networks has become some of the biggest and most peaceful