The fight to "follow the money" heats up in as Washington prepares to vote on GMO labeling.

The historical character of this old Saigon building was preserved with a fresh and respectful makeover.

What the Club Sandwich Generation looks like in Tokyo, where it is unusual to renovate instead of starting from scratch.

These delicately formed hand-crank and motor-activated art installations blossom and grow perpetually.

Standard washing machines use a lot of water to get rid of a small amount of dirt. One startup is aiming to close that loop by reusing the wastewater.

Soon American workers can get more health-giving exposure to x-rays and radiation and help the economy boom!

The fire department demands trees and on-street parking be removed so that they can have 20' clear speedways

It is estimated that around 100 elephants are being killed each day by poachers to meet the growing demand for ivory in Asia.

Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing...

News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.

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

The war on coal, it seems, may be ongoing, no matter who's in charge in Washington.

Just keeping your phone in your car's console during a drive could charge the battery with this novel tiny generator.

In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent.

The Guardian's George Monbiot talks about climate deniers, junk science, and the need for nuclear.

A new report describes the 10 species most at risk from policies proposed by the current administration.

Toronto, a city rated as one of the most livable in the world by The

You are going to hear a lot about this. It makes everybody's problems go poof. Just don't mention the CO2.

This is where we started.

It's an unlikely match between a 47-year-old Peruvian subsistence farmer and a giant American mining corporation, and yet the former is winning the battle.

Supported by the Amrita Bhoomi Agroecology Centre, young farmers are experimenting with natural farming methods, while saving money and lives in the process.

Mini-spots, reflectors and candelabra bulbs were supposed to become more efficient next year, saving 80 billion kWh.

Putting your money to work for sustainability is probably one of the most important things you can do. It just got easier.

And they are not alone...

The world's largest dam removal project is nearing completion on Elwha River on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula. Now it's time to enter the next phase of work on one of the greatest salmon rivers in the nation: the restoration of an entire watershed.

Architype demonstrates that simple forms and careful window choices are the way to build efficient, affordable homes.

Could it be that more efficient lighting means less coal being dug to power it?

It's not just renewables that are driving down emissions.

Starting in 1936 they wired the entire country, the houses, the tools and the farms, changing America. It is time to think big and do it again.

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.

The app lets kids and adults alike explore, measure and test the world around them.

With Oxford Dictionary’s addition of the verb 'MacGyver' to the official lexicon, we pay homage to the almighty hack.

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

Once one of the great mysteries of the natural world, the bluefin tuna's migration pattern has finally been elucidated by the workings of an international team of scientists as part of the global 10-year Census of Marine Life. To reach their

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost

The flying robots will start helping officials to locate lost hikers.

Instead of buying some new "green" products for Earth Day, start a legacy for your community by planting trees for Arbor Day.

The World Customs Organization and INTERPOL retrieved thousands of endangered animals during a sweep of arrests across 109 countries.

The Severn Barrage could create 50,000 jobs and provide 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Critics say we can do better than that.

The vase designed and named after Finnish designer Alvar Aalto is an icon among the design-savvy. The now-classic piece was released in 1937 at the World Fair in Paris. Today, the vase is produced by Iittala, which has slightly changed the size and

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

A couple, their parrot, plus one mother-in-law and her cat have their own private and communal spaces in this renovated apartment in Hong Kong.

Let's just say up front that nobody claims the Inauguration will be deep green - events like this, by their very nature, require a huge amount of car and plane travel, entailing a corresponding belch

This week The Man with A Spear in His Chest, founder of Interface Ray Anderson, held a press conference to mark a milestone in his company's journey up "Mount Sustainability". They are making excellent progress towards their target of zero

War correspondent Gwynne Dyer says they should worry more about carbon and climate change.

Last weekend, January 22nd - 23rd , over 500 volunteers from Alabama and across the country came together in Mobile Bay to lay the beginnings of oyster reefs. The volunteers strapped on boots

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.

With a carbon credit card, it doesn't have to be hard.

Design for deconstruction out of low-carbon materials is the way of the future.

Trust the rock stars, or your doctor.