Fresh Cargo's new fair-trade Maasai Treads line combines locally sourced and recycled materials with indigenous sandal-making skills to create footwear that make a stylish, sustainable statement.

Thousands of abandoned flipflops turn up on African shores--Ocean Sole recycles them into something good.

It's the first plant plant of its kind in the states that generates electricity from the temperature differences in the ocean.

It took three years, but Hōkūle’a made the impressive journey using only ancient Polynesian navigational methods.

Simple, no frills cabin living at its best, right by the ocean.

A roundup of some posts from our sister site.

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

This truly is just what we needed.

The 2019 Cruise Ship Report Card reveals what a dirty, harmful industry cruising is.

Sarah and I have spent the better

For three days this summer, a local host could show you why their country consistently ranks among the happiest in the world.

Beef jerky, coffee creamer, and baby formula have all shown up well past their expiry date, threatening consumer healthy and angering brands.

There are everywhere, they are fun, and there is so much to learn from them.

Do not mail them to the President.

"Siri, turn down the temperature in my bedroom please"

Intrepid Travel's latest offering is an uncharted journey that starts in Tehran and ends in Istanbul.

The bookcase was designed on a napkin because "Ideas are perishable"

Edward Burtynsky's collection called Water documents the role water plays in ecosystems, energy, cultural practices and disasters.

Over the past three months, over a million people from all around the globe have contacted LEGO to ask them to drop their oil partnership.

It's all about healthy hedonism, where sustainability meets socialbility.

Celebrated English painter David Hockney has turned to the iPad as his canvas -- embracing the latest technology despite his age.

A giant resin bee is drawn to purple loosestrife, can you guess the connection?

Our photo of the day comes from the magical rainforest of Ecuador.

They are always fun to look at but do they make sense?

Tata kills the world’s cheapest car that nobody wanted.

We love little boxes!

There is a shipping container building revolution coming, but it won't look like a bunch of silly boxes.

Researchers have discovered that the problem of ocean noise pollution extends all the way up to the shoreline. And shore crabs face a double-edged sword from too much noise from ships.

It's déjà vu all over again as the industry pushes "chemical recycling".

Experts have predicted a "high risk" of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.

Interested in trying out a night or two in a hand-built earthship? Here's one you can rent, located in an "eco-preneur" and permaculture community in Quebec.

Researchers are poring over an important medieval medical text with 360 recipes, many of which might have successfully fought infection long before modern science.

Family doctors are acknowledging that there's only so much medicine can do, and sometimes a walk in the park is just what a person needs.

When life gives you abundant peaches, berries, and more, use them in every meal!

Recycled Mississippi is traveling the length of one of America's iconic rivers, which also happens to be one of the most polluted, and filming a documentary along the way.

The rare earth metals mining industry is one rife with issues. But is there a way to green up the business?

There are a lot of good reasons to get rid of that old plug.

The fact that it is supposed to last longer is a bigger deal.

The evaluation report three years after Double Up Food Bucks started giving incentives to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients

Plus, NTSB Investigators said a "culture of deviance" delayed Enbridge's response once the 2010 was first detected.

Cut the grass will you?...Are you done edging?....Time to water the

Saint Francis of Assisi statue, photo: David Morris/Creative Commons. The following post is part of an ongoing series of posts outlining how the world's major religions have traditionally viewed the environment and are putting those beliefs into

The innovation could mean less e-waste at the end of our electronics' lives.

Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights, "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes

Today's technology makes dishwashers much more water and energy efficient than hand washing dishes. Here are some tips for taking that efficiency to the next level.

We can do lists too; here are some of the simple things you can do that do not involve spending money and buying stuff.

Save your clothes with these easy fixes for common zipper problems.

This modern, Scandinavian take on the hostel includes private rooms and a jacuzzi in the old vault.

Duke Energy Corp. is reportedly discussing with BMW Manufacturing Co. the potential for building a solar energy plant at the car company's Spartanburg South Carolina USA facility. Well, isn't that a German sort of response to US government pressure?

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."