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

This new California-based company is run by two entrepreneurial moms who understand the value of local production, quality fabrics, and reducing one's environmental impact.

Eco-conscious clothier Reformation has gained popularity with a number of celebrities.

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.

Peak oil used to be about running out of supply; now some think that we will run out of demand. The oil companies will ensure that we never run out of demand.

Is this totally silly and a waste of time and money, or is it a great leap forward? Or is it too soon to tell?

Not only will this save home owners money, but it will also allow utilities to manage demand during peak times.

Because of course you're thinking about water conservation in your yard in the middle of winter.

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

Aedas designs a railway station like a hill you can walk on.

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.

This digitally fabricated project revives a traditional material with new building technologies.

A new proposal for Hong Kong tries to fit people into pipes.

I may have once mused on the environmental impact of my backyard chickens, but I have no doubt that, overall, keeping them has been both a wonderful experience and a significant contribution to improving our family's

Seven architects have created massive and impressive new structures inside a building from the 1700's.

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

Even if you don't carrot all about fermented veggies, Formidable Vegetable Sound System will rock your kitchen with their 'glitch-permaculture-ukulele-wonk-swing.'

New research suggested benefits for giving students the option to stand during class.

Do the benefits of not sitting all day ever end?

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

One was recently installed at an Ohio university. Is this the message one wants to give to students there?

Because shipping containers are designed to move and these ones might have to.

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

With crickets in decline, some scientists say that the insects' summer crooning may become a thing of the past.

A new study provides the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among their offspring.

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.

For example, 72 pesticides approved for use in the United States are banned or in the process of being phased out in the EU.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by 2018 renewable should overtake natural gas to become the world's second-largest source of energy (oil is #1).

The project will take advantage of the sun, mountains and sea.

This portable pavilion has a clever lightweight structure where the bookshelves hold up the roof.

Innovative model brings fresh produce and jobs to areas and people in Chicago that need it most

The small device is perfect for tiny homes or those wanting a convenient, yet electricity-free option.

Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-backed Somali terror group responsible for Saturday's attack in a Nairobi mall, receives significant funding from the illegal poaching. This is why the US sees wildlife trafficking as a national security issue.

Masao Yoshida, one of the Fukushima 50 who stayed behind at the earthquake and tsunami-struck power plant after the other employees evacuated, has just died from esophageal cancer.

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.

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Scientists hope the technology that filmed it can make fishing more sustainable.

A new study used DNA testing to reveal shark meat being sold under generic fish names.

There's always clung to the Tetra Pak a bit of uncertainty regarding its environmental credibility: is it or isn't it green? Tetra Pak recycling rates are lousy, but in at least one life cycle analysis it came out ahead of glass and PET plastic in energy

With daycare costs rising, perhaps ditching the building is not such a crazy idea.

This flat pack, do-it-yourself version of a chicken has a lot of features, but can it help raise happy chickens on a city balcony?

Join the DETOX campaign to pressure the fashion industry to stop exposing our kids to hazardous chemicals and contaminating waterways.

A new investigation by Greenpeace delves into the ongoing environmental devastation caused by our recycling habits.

Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.

The Royal College of Art graduate students show their (environmental) stuff at the year-end show.

The U.S. Pavilion is spotlighting grassroots efforts to make cities and neighborhoods greener, safer, and happier places to live.

A landmark constitutional climate change lawsuit, filed by a group of kids against the US government, gets the go-ahead.