Chanie Kirschner's house looks like one of those plastic-wrapped gifts. (Well, on the inside windows, anyway.)

The job satisfaction of working for a nonprofit is worth an extra $40,000 per year, British study finds.

Cardborigami's clever folding shelters offer the displaced a surprisingly sturdy alternative to tents.

With frigid weather throughout the country, communities offer the homeless respite from the dangerous temperatures.

People are using low-power FM radio stations (LPFMs) to inform, educate and spark change in their communities.

More than 400 people have had problems filling EpiPen prescriptions. Maker Mylan has had "intermittent supply constraints," which may reduce availability.

Epidiolex is the first marijuana-based drug to earn FDA approval.

A great pied hornbill at Jurong Bird Park developed cancer, and doctors used 3D printing to make a prosthetic casque for it.

Local bloggers are filling an important niche in the coverage of the coal ash spill in Harriman, Tennessee.

Movie star Darryl Hannah and NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen were arrested along with dozens of others after blocking access to a coal facility.

Video: President Obama explains about how clean energy investments can diminish the environmental risks of fossil fuels and provide new jobs and opportunities a

Despite an uptick in public spending, 30% of city residents live more than a 10-minute walk from the nearest park, according to the 2018 City Park Facts report.

After every attempt to catch an otter fails, officials are forced to move the fish out of a Vancouver pond.

Even in Paris, a city with a lot of love for its dogs, public green space has traditionally been off-limits.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's $10B climate resiliency plan would extend the Manhattan shoreline by as much as 500 feet into the East River.

The BuildingGreen Top 10 Green Building Products were announced at Greenbuild 2011.

In response to the rapidly expanding green home building market, the USGBC teams up with Home Depot to launch a database of LEED-qualifying products ranging fro

The new certificate is offered by the U.S. Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools.

Application deadline for the 2012 Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program is Aug. 10, 2012.

The Citi branch in Union Square received LEED Platinum certification.

Bryan Cranston — the actor behind "Breaking Bad," television's favorite chemistry teacher-turned-meth manufacturer — appears at Dwell on Design to discuss

The Earth's globally-perceptible seismic 'hum' is now being used to peer into its depths, shedding new light on the planet's inner layers.

Every year, the number of green college programs — and the number of students enrolled in them — rises, as careers in environmental policy, sustainability,

The Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday that U.S. ethanol production was down about 1 percent.

Kenaf, the carbon-sequestering monster plant, provides food, shelter and carbon credits.

COTAP will focus its carbon offsetting projects in impoverished countries.

What is Uber anyway? Is it a taxi service or as it claims, a technology platform, or something else altogether?

At $1 million per mile, the cost of wireless roads would be prohibitive.

With its edible veggie walls and lack of traditional HVAC systems, Carbon Positive House aims to "free us of modern day lifelines."

Michael Green, champion of lanky, carbon-neutral buildings, sets his sights on the City of Light.

James Furzer's simple design is still situated on the streets — yet lifted slightly above them.

UC Davis students conceive a 'deliberate solution' to substandard farm worker housing.

At 208-square-feet, Kasita smart apartments are roughly the size of 6 garbage receptacles.

Why move to the woods when you can live in a tower that doubles as a coniferous forest?

Hydraulics give a British backyard potting shed a lift when needed.

Donut-shaped and parked at the foot of a glacier, the Snøhetta-designed Svart hotel in Norway is the first of its kind.

A high-tech collaboration between astrophysicists and ecologists is helping to monitor and protect some of the world's most threatened animals.

There were once less than 1,000 of them left in Mexico and the U.S.

In Florida, not even the iconic Florida panther — the endangered state animal — is safe from new development.

Companies looking to be more humane are trying out a gassing method instead of electric shock.

From the venerable, eco-conscious publisher comes a new place to find great gifts, fairly made jewelry and sustainable fashion.

'Tis the season to mend, modify, repair, tidy-up and perform (not too strenuous) energy- and water-saving tweaks around the house.

Your next car purchase may be based on a letter grade issued by Beltway bureaucrats.

The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre project could include up to 1,000 wind turbines, which would make it the largest wind farm in North America.

Worlds collide as energy corporations, Fortune 500 CEO's, nonprofit leaders and 60,000 protestors try to make sense of the Copenhagen climate talks.

The world's most committed climate activists are descending on Durban for the next attempt to reach an international climate change treaty. So why did one of mo

Little by little the Obama administration is clearing the way for CCS.

Energy efficiency efforts are a highlight of the company’s 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report.

Driving a propane-fueled pickup truck

We don't want greenhouse gas emissions, but we do want energy. What if we could bury one to get more of the other?