Recycled fabric, down insulation, and fair-trade sewing make this a top pick if you're in the market for a new coat.

These designs from Leckie Studio and the Backcountry Hut Company are lovely to look at, but what are they really?

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

Greenpeace has taken some of the most popular outdoor gear to a lab in order to measure concentration of PFCs. What it found is disturbing.

You just have to look at the parking ratios to know they are environmental disaster areas.

An annual water-monitoring report focuses on "contaminants of emerging concern."

In which the City requires new buildings to go from 'solar ready' rooftops to solar actual.

Air quality in San Francisco is the worst in the world right now.

Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier

Changes closer to home would be nice too.

As with many biodiversity hotspots, new discoveries are being made all the time.

Supported by the Amrita Bhoomi Agroecology Centre, young farmers are experimenting with natural farming methods, while saving money and lives in the process.

Jackson McLean is the face of a new vegan food movement on this remote Canadian island that's long been defined by fishing.

But maybe he should.

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In today's weekly newsletter, we go on about why cold showers are good for you (not the reasons you think); show off some very fancy LED lights in a very old fixture design and whine about the designs of tiny houses.

Putting your money to work for sustainability is probably one of the most important things you can do. It just got easier.

While advertising her new film "Beauty & the Beast", Watson wants people to think about how and where clothes are made.

It's going for every label from LEED to Living Building Challenge

LEED v4 is here.

The Nature Conservancy is teaching New Yorkers about the protective natural ecosystems in the city

A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.

The new dragon's breath chili is killer hot, but is intended to help, not hurt, when used in medical treatments.

Meet the Whanganui. You might call it a river, but in the eyes of the law, it has the standings of a person.

A new study looks at how AVs are part of a much bigger picture of how we get around.

Researchers at Georgia Tech warn that there is a risk that self-driving cars might be hacked and cause gridlock.

If there's a holy grail of liquid renewable fuels it might look something like this: High yield per acre, doesn't negatively impact water supplies, doesn't compete with food crops, and is cost-competitive with fossil

New Environmental Protection Agency requirements for its Renewable Fuel Standards program have been released which raise an issue which has sat dormant for a little while: How to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of a

No more pepperoni, salami, bacon, or ham will be offered on school menus.

It gets people in better shape using less equipment and energy.

It's got all three: low transportation energy, low embodied carbon, low operating energy.

Pull out the ionization detectors and go photoelectric.

Proposed bill would make burning tires and other industrial solid waste count towards the state’s mandate of generating 10 percent of its energy from renewables.

It's catching on: homeowners letting lawns go fallow during the summer without wasting resources on watering. When I lived in Seattle it was a common practice. After the grass turns brown, come fall,

It sounds counter-intuitive to say the least, but a team of scientists has discovered that running barefoot is better for your feet. What!

Fifth Third Bank shows us just how easy it is becoming for corporations to source all of their electricity from renewables.

Starting in 1936 they wired the entire country, the houses, the tools and the farms, changing America. It is time to think big and do it again.

The message "Electrify Everything!" is beginning to spread.

A new report card from the Electronics TakeBack Coaltion shows how each retailer stacks up when it comes to recycling the merchandise they sell us.

By 2017, global e-waste rates will increase by 33% to 65.4 million tons per year—the weight equivalent of almost 200 Empire State Buildings.

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

Starting in 2015, it will be illegal to leave computers and other electronic for curb-side pickup, as part of an effort to fight e-waste.

Picture this: In 2016 the world generated enough e-waste to fill a line of 18-wheelers from New York to Bangkok and back.

If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work.

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.

We're all friends here, right? So I can talk honestly?

The tech giant has hit this major renewable energy goal ahead of all its competitors.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is experimenting with a new energy storage technology.

Let's hope they play nicely with government-funded cargo bikes.