Wool is an ideal material for footwear, with its odor-reducing and moisture-wicking properties, so why hasn't it caught on?

When a New Zealand supermarket chain ditched plastic packaging, produce sales skyrocketed.

The fire department demands trees and on-street parking be removed so that they can have 20' clear speedways

This is a very good idea that all of North America should consider.

With Starbucks poised to open its first store on Italian soil this fall, there is concern about the environmental impact of so much coffee-related trash.

This week, Anishinaabe tribal members began riding horseback along the proposed route of a what could possibly become the largest tar sands pipeline in the United States.

A new study has found that the air pollution from Alberta's massive tar sands operations is putting the health of downwind residents at risk by releasing unsafe levels of carcinogenic and toxic chemicals into the air.

ForestEthics has launched a new tool called TarSandsSOS that lets citizens track supertankers hauling tar sands oil along the Pacific coast in real time.

Activists deliver a "No Tar Sands!" message to Sustainable Brands corporate conference via kayak flotilla

The breakthrough also scored 18-year-old Hayley Todesco a Google Science Fair Award.

This is a prime example of divest-invest in action, folks...

Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins sets out what Resilience 2.0 might look like.

It learns your usage patterns but can do a lot more.

I knew that real-time data on our energy use would be interesting. But I wasn't sure how much it would actually save us.

A new study claims that energy efficiency is driving the Smart Home market, but in fact every bit of smart tech is a little vampire.

Tens of millions of sharks are mutilated and left to die slowly each year so that some affluent people in Asia can each soup. This has to stop.

I grew up in the West of England. I like hard cider. And as a failed beekeeper, I owe a deabt of gratitude (or guilt?) to our furry pollinating friends. So I was delighted to hear that one purveyor of hard cider is

Anti-littering ad reminds Dublin residents to put trash in its rightful place--or else!

Supporters of protecting the Teghut Forest in northern Armenia from a company's plans to build an open-pit copper mine there have an uphill battle to fight against the perception that mining

The plight of the bumblebee is a matter of great concern. Their numbers are declining, some species are on the brink of extinction and colony collapse disorder has spread in the U.S. Albert Einstein may (or may not) have said

Darwin made a smart choice when he picked Galapagos as the place to develop his theory of natural selection: This group of islands has some of the most incredible species in the world. Earlier this month, a star-studded group of adventurers with the Missi

A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many

Conservation efforts, especially in places as renowned as the Galapagos, have something of a reputation. It's developers vs. protesters, consumers vs. conservationists, people

The stunning new marine preserve surrounding the Galápagos will be off-limits for fishing in a bid to conserve its unique habitat.

Tortoise sauve! The randy 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise has sired over 800 babies.

Jeff Bezos' purchase is just another step in the long march away from newsprint.

Looking like a "great ship," this solar-powered music venue is a new gateway into the city.

Perhaps we should have included one in our perfect bathroom.

Veganism must be making serious inroads into society if McDonald's, king of industrial meat, is jumping into soy patties.

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!

Eat simpler food.

Doing this was one of the best decisions I made when getting married. (So was marrying a great guy!)

It actually seems to say that you can give someone an adjustable desk but you can't make them stand. That's a very different thing.

Just standing isn't enough; you gotta move.

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.

The best ideas aren't always the most expensive ones.

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half

If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

They are as gutsy and gritty as ever.

A great demonstration of how to develop tiny lots.

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.

Wiarton Willie saw his shadow this morning, which means the cold weather will stick around.

For example, 72 pesticides approved for use in the United States are banned or in the process of being phased out in the EU.

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.

Perhaps lofts are not the best solution for tiny homes and apartments.

These incredible images sent back by the Juno spacecraft gives us a detailed look at Jupiter.

Our blue-green Earth might have actually been a different color, thanks to this molecule.

For the first time ever, NASA has recorded a likely marsquake – listen to the haunting tremor here.