What's the point of protecting the environment if bad luck brings a big space rock on a trajectory that crosses Earth's path?

A new report examines the environmental and health impacts of consuming animals products.

Japanese designer Chie Imai has created bolero jackets for her fall '08 collection that mix fur from chinchillas with recycled polyester fabric from Teijin Ltd., and she's calling it eco-fur. Imai argues that fur is an 'ecological' product because it can

The Heath Ledger-directed Modest Mouse video for "King Rat," released Tuesday, follows the animated adventures of a ship helmed by whales on the hunt for humans--harpoons and all.Ledger developed the video to draw attention to

Max Fordham's house is "simple and practical" and mostly all natural.

The wave glider created by Iquid Robotics has passed quite a test for robustness. It coasted through the superstorm and provided real time weather data nonstop.

A student at Wake Forest University is testing wave energy technology for capturing the power in pool laps.

Woops.

Nature and the environment are still a big part of this protest.

We all can't go to Copenhagen this week, but there are so many ways to make our voice heard nonetheless. ThisPlace09 is an art and Twitter project that conveys personal thoughts about climate change to the delegates and the

There are a number of reasons why this is an excellent idea.

See fish in black and white, bones and flesh, in Smithsonian exhibit, touring the U.S.

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

It costs very little, distracts kids for longer, and minimizes clutter around the house. In other words, it's every parent's dream come true.

Building with blocks and construction toys is a great unstructured activity for kids, and Ollies Wooden Blocks are a superb new addition to the category.

With an unstoppable flow of leafy veggies coming from my CSA share every week, I have to get creative in the kitchen.

Sister site MNN has some good suggestions including going back to your roots, and canning what you can.

A new report finds reducing meat consumption is as important as tackling transportation emissions, but the politics are daunting.

Gosh, there are a lot of ways to eat less meat. And a lot of ways to talk about it, too.

From amaranth to teff, the wild world of healthy whole grains need not be bland and boring.

Reducing meat consumption is one of the best ways to help the environment. A new book offers many ideas for how to make it happen.

It's a veggie burger that actually bleeds. But who's the target audience?

A new campaign aims to bust the "protein myth".

A new microbial fuel cell can not only drastically reduce the amount of sludge from wastewater treatment plants, but can also produce clean energy at the same time.

As Barbara Hendricks leaves the Environment Ministry, we look at the success of meatless meetings in a country with a strong meat culture

Whether lost in the wilderness or just foraging in the woods for delicacies, all of these plants can be safely consumed.

After a week of recounts, the proposed law to label genetically modified foods loses by 4 percent of votes.

The Amazing Shrinking car It seems like Toyota has learned quite a bit from building the Toyota iQ (follow link for photos), the "Smallest Four-Passenger Car in the World". But the question really was, if they can fit 4 people in a car that small, how

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), as passed by the US Congress in August, 2008, inadvertently threatens to take many handmade toys and children's clothing items off the market. According to the

It's reminiscent of some other crackpot ideas from the seventies.

Solar farm atop a PrimeAsia Leather Corp. leather tannery in Vietnam. Courtesy photo via WWD. Tanning is an intense chemical process which transforms decomposable rawhide into leather, but not without discharging serious pollution into water; Around

Once again testing the limits of bamboo as an eco-friendly material for large buildings, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia constructs this striking structure near the city of Da Nang.

Christopher Mims describes how robots are changing manufacturing and eliminating jobs

With all the recent brouhaha over inaccurate and since retracted statements in the 2007 IPCC climate change report about the speed with which Himalayan glaciers are melting, a recent series of posts over at China Dialogue is

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne has already been named Britain's greenest city. But that reputation looks set to be cemented as the city begins drilling for geothermal energy in the form of hot

Cities can be hot-spots of pollution, with thousands or millions of people, cars, pets, industries, and more contributing to global warming. But they can also be centers of innovation, as bright ideas, available funding, and

A new type of geothermal heat pump system being tested in Philadelphia can tap into a city's sewage lines to capture heat.

Geothermal energy constantly gets overshadowed by other sources of clean energy, like wind and solar, because it's still more expensive. But with every passing year, it gets closer to its time in the spotlight.

This new design might be the nail in the coffin of geothermal heat pump systems.

Adding tea and herbs to facial steam is becoming popular among those who champion natural and non-toxic skin care.

More than just a comfortable habit, science has shown that sipping tea throughout the day improves and prolongs creative performance.

These flowery sculptures seem to grow and flourish, out of repurposed dead animal skulls.

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

The disaster at Fukushima may have faded from the news cycle, but the radioactive waste it left behind isn't going anywhere. At the Saitama sewage treatment plant, 169 miles from Fukushima, workers are dealing with tons of

Selling energy efficiency is hard, but the UK Labour Party got it right.

In a bid to meet the city's goal of recycling 60% of its waste by 2015, Seattle is turning its sights on food scraps that end up in the trash.

A large section of a 140-year-old Western hemlock tree is faithfully reconstructed by hand from cast molds, using tiny pieces of reclaimed cedar that have been carefully glued together.

These are interesting times for the Passive House movement in America, and this should be a very interesting conference.

A Seattle educational non-profit hopes to crowd-fund a series of portable, off-grid shelters for some of the city's homeless, which local high school students will design and build with the help of professional architects and builders.

I could write this post in my sleep, it is such a tired playbook that happens so often in real estate development.