As a keystone species, the importance of the sea otter on the health of coastal ecosystems can't be understated. A new study shows that they may even play a key role in helping coastlines cope with agricultural run-off.

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.

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.

Solar grid parity will vary from city to city. A new interactive map helps show how it will spread.

The FDA has announced new (and stronger) warning requirements for certain prescription insomnia medications. Here's why.

A report found that bottles have surpassed bags and straws when it comes to prevalence in freshwater rivers.

They want to build beacons into bikes. Will implants in pedestrians be next?

At a time when excessive pressures on the earth's land and water resources are of growing concern, there is a massive new demand emerging for cropland to produce fuel for cars--one that threatens world food

This competition for the best environmental photography never fails to be interesting and professional.

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

Well, this is pretty clever. If you're enticed by the idea of having fresh eggs straight from the backyard, but are not sure if you're ready to commit, RentTheChicken.com lets you rent some chickens!

Copper Lane, a cohousing project in London, shows how design by committee doesn't have to look like a camel.

Commercial kitchens are really expensive to build. Why not share?

Some are even containerized and self-service, and have a lot more than just tools.

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

An Ann Arbor brewery has just completed a $350,000 overhaul of its facilities, all in the name of greener beer.

Beekeeper, and World War II veteran, is at risk of losing his beehives he's had since the 1950s.

After reviewing the major religions of the world's stances on the environment, it seems pretty clear to me that there are more commonalities than differences. In the realm of metaphysics there are genuine and significant

The smartphone market isn't slowing down any time soon, but many people are returning to simpler, older phone models for a host of reasons.

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

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

Big business may be coming to the climate party late. But it is making its presence known.

Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have joined together to support Obama's Clean Power Plan as it faces legal opposition.

Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.

And a big part of the pitch is sustainability and comfort.

All work and no play? Here's a work space with some playful humor built in.

Fleet purchasing may turn out to be critical to electrification.

BRB introduces a bunch of concept vehicles that look like a lot of fun without fossil fuels

Michael Pollan's food advice will be mandatory holiday viewing for any health- and green-minded individuals.

We have been saying for years that building materials should be healthy and high fiber like the food we eat, and now Perdue delivers.

Tweaking your computer's energy saving settings is a no-brainer. But that's just the trouble: the computer is making a "dumb" decision to dim the monitor or go to sleep after a preset time. VeryPC, the British maker of energy-efficient

Look Ma! No heatsink!

Fixing and making feels good, and everyone's doing it, so don't be shy. Experience the Joy of Fix.

With Oxford Dictionary’s addition of the verb 'MacGyver' to the official lexicon, we pay homage to the almighty hack.

It's a sign of quality when companies are willing to stand by the goods they sell.

Thanks to an exception for "electric or non-fossil-fuel-burning vehicles". Maybe all other states could do that so that other EV makers don't have to face what Tesla is facing?

A tropical skyscraper by WOHA and Patricia Urquiola is wrapped in a vine-covered sunscreen.

Diverging from the Sprinter van conversion trend, this man revamped an old life-saving vehicle into his own tiny home.

The digital currency is in its death throes.

The leader of the Catholic Church used his strongest language yet to call for 'decisive action, here and now.'

photo: J. Novak Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on

The shocking photo above is of gigantic piles of human feces left in the open air at a dump in Haiti. While some in the "developed world" (I always hated that term), may turn their noses up when we recommend composting toilets

Some time ago I posted on the efforts of Joe Jenkins and GiveLove.org to promote humanure composting toilets in Haiti. But this was nothing new. In fact, one of the non-profit partners behind that

While global warming naysayers seem content to continue flouting the overwhelming scientific consensus in favor of this anthropogenic phenomenon, they seem to have gotten one point largely right: hurricanes didn't suddenly begin massing over the past

It's a more environmentally-friendly way to dispose of a body than burning or burying.

Using officially documented research and color-it-yourself data visualizations, this project aims to convey climate change data in an engaging way.

They may sound progressively eco-friendly, but a new Greenpeace report explains why they're not.

The KISS principle applies to everything, including building design.

One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.

Well, as much as you can humanize a $136,000 sports car.