It's good news... but we shouldn't be eating tuna at all.

Why would an engineer at Apple quit his job to design a product to help gardeners propagate plants?

Think bike lanes cost too much? Let's put it into a little perspective.

Artist Kebreab Demeke's colorful, functional sculpture is among around a dozen projects examining the meaning of 'the good life' on display at an exhibition in Berlin.

Unsuspecting visitors to the small fishing village of Cheng Long might feel the need to blink and rub their eyes. Is there really a giant bowl and chopsticks sinking into the wetlands? What are those brightly colored things growing all over that house?

A new exhibition in Toronto looks at sustainable development.

Or, a lesson in learning to love opossums.

A new study shows how adolescents quickly improved their sleep time and quality in just one week's time.

Trade the morning shower for one before bed for better sleep and more.

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

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

Over the past 15 years, awareness and interest in livestock conditions and wellbeing have increased exponentially, leading to significant improvements. How much further can it go?

The fast food chain has taken last year's promise to eliminate antibiotics from pizza a step further.

What if we declared climate change a crisis and put some serious resources to this type of initiative?

We love little boxes!

This new Canadian startup offers fabulous winter parkas and bombers that are entirely ethical and vegan.

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

And they are not alone...

I am a huge fan of BuildingGreen, but have not given a lot of coverage of their Green Product of the Year Awards. They are, to put it bluntly, not sexy, like watching Eoncote Ceramic paint dry. But I have been doing our readers a disservice, as I

What can one say about a show that attracts 23,000 green building professionals across the border to Toronto? It could only beGreenbuild, the grand spectacle put on by theU.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). This was its tenth

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

It's like watching paint dry.

The Echmiadzin Cathedral complex in Armenia is one of 12 spiritual destinations that are becoming more sustainable.

Religious communities may be wide open to fighting climate change, new evidence reveals.

We often criticize climate denialists for being anti-science, and yet many environmentalists reject science that clashes with their own worldview.

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

It's a big step forward for the high-tech timber industry.

Here is one woman's version of simple living on the river, in a boat that is equipped to see the tough northern winters through.

"Surfboards of

Image source: Sun Strides Sun Strides is merging two things that southern Californian's love - the sun and athletic activities - to raise funds for solar projects in Africa. 5, 10, 15K, whatever your passion or punishment, there is a spot for you at the

If you live in San Diego and find the prospect of banding together with your neighbors to get better rates on installing your own solar panels interesting, then this one is for you: 1BOG (that's One Block Off the Grid ...) has announced that they will

This renovated bus is a mobile coworking space that brings location-independent professionals out into the great outdoors, combining work with a hike, a bike trip or a surf ride on the waves.

Lead? Aerobic bacteria? Misleading labels? Consumer Reports tested popular brands of the widely used supplements; here's what they found.

Think we are cutting back? They are just getting started, and we are going to be buried in the stuff.

This fake fight has a good cause.

Lazy New Yorkers who want to stay on the island and sunbathe will get this floating artificial beach on the Hudson River if this scheme gets crowdfunded and approved.

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

It's been a while since a good poo-power story has come down the pipe, but here's an interesting one: Massachusetts-based biofuels company Qteros and wastewater recyclers Applied Clean Tech have announced that they

Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the

After several decades of Lrapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to keep up with the demands of a growing, increasingly affluent, population.

The first large-scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013. The New

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

A new study found men think society expects them to conform to stereotypes ... but how right are they?

We often ask the question "Why buy when you can rent?" but we never thought of this.

We have seen many ups and downs in the prefab world, but they may be getting it right this time.

Architype demonstrates that simple forms and careful window choices are the way to build efficient, affordable homes.

The HRP-5Ps were created by man. They evolved. There are many copies. And they have a plan.

As you walk across the stately lawns of many college campuses, you might not put much thought into what it takes to keep those lawns so neatly trimmed and manicured. Well, that is unless you're being woken up after a long night of "studying" to the

It's not pretty, but a fact of life, gardens are rich pickings for thieves.

A new study in the journal Conservation Biology found that snow leopards living near Buddhist monasteries in Tibet are being helped by monks who actively patrol the forests to prevent poachers from killing the endangered cats.