Naturally, official Nordic eating guidelines include things like: "Eat more food from wild landscapes."

The US Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), under pressure to lessen childhood exposure to lead in toys and clothing, has set a deadline of early February 2009. That's

As salinization impacts agriculture around the world—another effect of climate change that will hit already-vulnerable places and people the hardest—farmers, small-scale farmers in particular, have to figure out how to

When I caught up with Summer Rayne Oakes at a Fashion Delivers event in June, she only briefly mentioned her forthcoming project: Source 4 Style, an online marketing

Finally, there is now an ethical and practical alternative work wear option to Carhartt and Dickies.

Handmade is becoming big business -- reeeally big. Etsy -- the online marketplace for handmade items -- announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not

From gardening supplies and baby toys to pet products and eco-furniture, check these sustainable online shops before you hit the streets.

Demand for this 'green gold' is so high that people are waiting months to get a sapling for backyard planting.

In a shocking exclusive report, Marcus Stern and Sebastian Jones at InsideClimate News write that the top official of the agency that regulates oil and gas pipelines recently admitted that he's essentially powerless as a regulator.

This week, Anishinaabe tribal members began riding horseback along the proposed route of a what could possibly become the largest tar sands pipeline in the United States.

House of Representatives voted in favor of the XL Keystone pipeline project, in an attempt to bypass executive authority.

After the House of Representatives approved legislation pushing the Keystone XL forward, the Senate has rejected it.

A new twist in the plot for the controversial pipeline, as TransCanada asks for a suspension of its application.

These are tiny homes with an activist bent, taking a stand against the incursion of a pipeline that could contaminate indigenous lands.

If any of you have backpacked the Presidential Range and Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, you know that the weather can change in a hot minute. Over the past 20 years, we’ve hiked through hail, lightening storms, and

Take a tour of two pioneering rooftop farms that could be the first signs of a growing and much needed movement in a rapidly urbanizing China.

Image: allaboutgeorge, Flickr, CC BY The Digital Migration Continues to Change the Face of Consumption A new study from the Ponyter Institute reveals that by the end of 2010, more people were reading their news online than in traditional newspapers. 34%

No green energy issue is too small for the rampaging Premier.

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

Flying can be a divisive topic when it comes to curbing emissions, but airplanes have other environmental impacts too.

Nuclear power generation in the United States is falling. It plateaued between 2007 and 2010—before falling more than 4 percent over the last two years. Projections for 2013 show a further 1 percent drop.

I move around a lot - between being home, at school, and now living abroad, I've lived in seven different apartments or rooms in the last five years. And I don't see myself settling down any time soon. That's why I'm

Nature's acoustic environments are wild, haunting and beautiful. As this online educational project shows, these wild soundscapes are in danger of disappearing too.

Experts have predicted a "high risk" of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.

Images courtesy of Quiet Hero. Quiet Hero, a San Diego based clothing company sprang onto the scene in 2007 and has not stopped running. Their tshirts are quickly gaining interest in boutiques across the US. With themes like "Art you can ride a tiger

Plus, NTSB Investigators said a "culture of deviance" delayed Enbridge's response once the 2010 was first detected.

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

Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights, "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes

"This is our last chance to avert a climate disaster. We must act now."

These high-end kits make converting a van into a home-on-wheels an easier proposition.

A mix of modern and traditional design elements that are appropriate for the Northeast make these very interesting houses.

Forever is a very long time.

Cartoonist Joe Mohr shows how the chemical might have affected the cartoon hero

There is a fundamental logical inconsistency here. Either the stuff is bad for you or it isn't.

The world is awash in LNG that's a lot closer to the ocean and a lot cheaper to move.

Our brains can't handle it.

A new entry to the eco-friendly furnishings market offers a collection of furniture and home accessories that comes with a bold set of standards.

Everyone is excited about plant-based meat substitutes, it seems.

In 40 days over the summer, the coast had retreated by 14.5 meters, sometimes more than a meter a day.

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

It's that seventies show all over again as a Trudeau gets blamed but it's not his fault; it's simple economics.

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.

Heavy Eco sells bags, t-shirts and accessories, all made with recycled or organic materials and designed and produced by inmates in Estonian prisons.

A most painful demonstration of Murphy's Law - that

Simply by telling pilots their fuel consumption is being monitored, Virgin Atlantic saved millions.

I'm a fan of any policy that discourages people from schlepping loads of unnecessary stuff around the planet.

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

More than 20,000 barrels of crude oil spilled, but thankfully because of a 40 foot thick layer of clay beneath the field, the oil has been relatively contained and is not believed to have reached a water source.

After two years of pressing pipeline regulators to release inspection photos and videos of the 60-year-old Enbridge pipeline that carries tar sands oil through the Straits of Mackinac, NWF took it upon themselves to inspect the pipeline.

If a hurricane is headed your way, you surely have a lot on your mind. Knowing the energy infrastructure risks in your area may be one more thing to throw in there.