Unsuspecting visitors to the small fishing village of Cheng Long might feel the need to blink and rub their eyes. Is there really a giant bowl and chopsticks sinking into the wetlands? What are those brightly colored things growing all over that house?

It seemed a bit smaller and emptier this year, much like the green movement in general.

Why do we always think other animals are so simple?

Uttar Pradesh is going to be looking a lot greener after a marathon 24-hour tree-planting frenzy.

The so-called "bleeding" veggie burger is bleedin' everywhere these days.

The premature deaths are linked to excessive breeding.

Fall isn't just known for the end of summer, finally-I-can-turn-off-the-air-conditioning temperatures, afternoon football games, and a return to your favorite soups and stews: It's also famous for its bounty of rich, saturated

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee at The Guardian writes about the deeper human issue at risk in our ongoing environmental crises - a disconnection from the ecosystem.

Scientists have named a new marine ecological community, the Plastisphere, comprised of, you guessed it, plastic -- and all the organisms that now call ocean plastic home.

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.

The ecosystem had thrived for thousands of years but collapsed less than two centuries ago.

Torrey Trust, owner of Surf eCo, wanted to do more to protect the oceans and the environment so she opened up her own surf school that teaches kids young and old about the environment while helping them catch a few waves. Located in Encinitas, CA,

Images via: Zoic.com San Diego based cycling clothing company Zoic just released their spring line, which now includes EcoZoic - an organic and bamboo charcoal blend of clothing that is both functional as well as eco-friendly. But while Zoic wants to

Rivers are people too, you know.

Photo from Eco-Rally USA Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start

This poetic, one-of-a-kind urn floats on the water while slowly returning cremated remains to nature.

The challenge is to re-evaluate the materials we consume and the way we manufacture products so as to cut down on waste.

It gets people in better shape using less equipment and energy.

According to Forbes, revenue from the sharing economy will surpass $3.5 billion this year.

For years we've been talking about renting or borrowing rather than owning. There are so many things that people own but rarely use...

Why own a fondue pot when you can borrow one?

There is sharing, there is abuse, and there is theft. Susie Cagle takes a tough look at the subject.

Copper Lane, a cohousing project in London, shows how design by committee doesn't have to look like a camel.

Commercial kitchens are really expensive to build. Why not share?

Cadillac introduces BOOK, which lets you book the car you want when you want it. We should all be so lucky.

Why buy a kid's size bike when you can rent the right size bike every year?

These sneakers and sandals are proof that footwear production can be gentler on the environment.

Everybody should be doing this, planning for repairability from day one.

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.

Perhaps it is time to stuff this duck analogy.

Phonebloks was a great idea - mix-and-match pieces means upgrading from a basic platform is forever. Now it has a first competitor - the Eco-Mobius.

By reclaiming precious metals from its 'urban mine' of obsolete electronics, Japan may be able to produce the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from recycled materials.

Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.

A partnership between Moisson Montreal and the largest grocery chains in the province will continue to salvage hundreds of tons of food that would otherwise be discarded.

Big Auto is increasingly coming up against Big Tech.

Tweaking your computer's energy saving settings is a no-brainer. But that's just the trouble: the computer is making a "dumb" decision to dim the monitor or go to sleep after a preset time. VeryPC, the British maker of energy-efficient

Walmart has been in the sustainability spotlight over the last few years, both for implementing its own efficiency measures and for raising the bar for industry at large. Some view these initiatives with skepticism because the

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

Turns out, environmental issues are not about awareness. People get it.

The digital currency is in its death throes.

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

Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.

She may not have caused the most property damage, but the superstorm extraordinaire holds some impressive records.

The DIE Moto, the diesel-engined motorbike which we have covered before, has broken the land speed record for a diesel motorbike, with a speed of 130mph.

Despite the fact that Venice, CA seems to be the epicenter of SoCal's green lifestyle movement, the 24th annual Abbott Kinney Festival that took over the city's main drag on Sunday, September 28th was far from eco-friendly. After claiming last year

Ecological footprint: what is it? An analysis that gauges our impact on the planet's biological systems, the ecological footprint measures human consumption of natural resources in comparison to Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate them.

Taking a step back from the emotional response of the recent environmental devastation, let's take a look at offshore drilling more broadly: How much oil do we currently produce from offshore drilling, and how much might we potentially recover?

Without a more comprehensive vision of economic health and better ways to measure it, we are flying blind on a path to economic decline and collapse.

The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people.