While we've seen many celebrities jumping on the green bandwagon, we've also seen them doing it for the real deal. Many have been eco-conscious for years--some are just realizing how important it is to promote a sustainable

Beating out New York City, the small Tennessee town of Signal Mountain is the first in the nation to pass a Green Food Resolution. But, just what does a Green Food Resolution mean for farmers, consumers, and

TVA and reactor-maker Babcock and Wilcox have agreed to work together to see if they can build up to 6 "small reactors." Nuctuplets, then? They can knock these

Because everyone knows that bike paths are just the thin edge of the wedge. Next, they come for your cars.

Would you let corporations decide how climate science gets taught in your kids' classroom? That's what's happening in Tennessee.

Woops.

It may be old, dirty and coal powered now, but it was once a vision of a brighter future, was a giant stimulus project and helped win WWII.

Simple but striking, this small treehouse retreat was built by hand and furnished with repurposed flea market finds.

Step 1: The idea of a car that runs on compost. Step 2: Implementation of a car that runs on compost. We're half done.

Leave it to the Swedes to combine physical fitness with PICKING UP LITTER!

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

Forty companies just pledged to do their part to serve more veggies, helping the environment in the process.

It's become a very tasty ritual.

"Achtung Baby" is an American mom's analysis of how German culture fosters resilience in children.

This week a new report has been published by UK environmental think tank Green Alliance which unites top UK businesses on a mission to design out waste in industry. The report is called A Pathway To Greener Products and calls on the new coalition

I must admit I have never really understood the environmentalist obsession with plastic bags. As I noted in my post on a ban plastic bags rap that went viral, I've always felt there are

Whether it's laundry or dishes, turn down the dial for environmental savings and gleaming results.

An annual Toronto event is pretty utopian, as two major highways are closed to cars and given over to cyclists.

Referencing traditional terraced agriculture, this modern house with terraces has an integrated rainwater collection and irrigation system that would allow it to grow greenery.

Indonesia may not be tapping into much of its superior

A mug of herbal tea a day may keep the doctor away!

You will find your ikigai at the intersection of what you are good at and what you love doing.

The embrace of negative space is celebrated in everything from home décor and flower arranging to poetry and all aspects of Japanese daily life.

Deep overhang controls light, provides privacy for bedrooms upstairs.

In Japan, celebrating the transient beauty of flowers is a beloved custom when the cherry blossoms spring to life.

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

And it is beautiful too.

It really could be the future of sustainable, green and healthy housing.

According to the Spanish newspaper El País last week, Spain will be the first big buyer of CO2 emission rights from Eastern Europe, in order to fulfil the Kyoto Protocol. In 2007, Spain's emissions had

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.

After promising not to use sodium lauryl sulfate in any products, The Honest Co. is under scrutiny after two lab tests found significant amounts of the chemical in its laundry detergent.

Corporate Knights Magazine asks the question and gets a different result than we did.

Chevron Toxico: Chevron Produces Phony Online News Coverage to Spread Misinformation about Ecuador Disaster "To promote a misinformation campaign about its role in the oil contamination of a pristine area of the rainforest in Ecuador, Chevron recently

100,000 acres of Sumatran rainforest to be protected in Indonesia by a new type of zoning, which will generate sustainable revenue from non-timber forest products.

Inspired by the small, simple and efficient spaces of Japan, is this lovely tiny home that comes with a lot of luxurious features.

The online craft market place becomes a certified B Corp, and announces $40m in new funding. This could be a great thing for all of us.

A Today Show bit today is perhaps the grossest example yet.

Oh, I am sorry. I meant "trackless trains."

While traveling, journalist Jan Wong opted for host families, not cooking school, when it came to learning about local food.

Look At Me Designs transforms old sweaters and tee shirts into fresh new styles.

Beyond the headline, a really great overview of how globalization may well be entirely reshaped by energy constraints, for the betterment of local economies in places where manufacturing has been outsourced for years.

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.

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.

It reveals what we already know but needs repeating – that more time in nature equals greater happiness in kids.

The Irish beer giant has stopped using fish bladders for filtration of its keg beer; cans and bottles to follow suit by the end of the year.

The largest honey packer in the US faces criminal charges over fraudulent trade in Chinese honey.

Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will

Lonesome George, the world's last remaining Pinta Island tortoise, has died at age 100 -- marking the final end of a species millennia in the making, and inching that 'loneliest' mantle one notch closer to us.

On a remote island in the Galapagos, hybrid turtles have been found that suggest a long-lost purebred companion for the late Lonesome George may survive.

This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have