A greener workplace can mean a lighter ecological footprint, a healthier and more productive place to work and good news for the bottom line.

The competition is looking for new ideas for capturing the emissions from fossil fuels and turning them into something useful instead of harmful.

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.

On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, but it's not exactly something we should be celebrating. It's actually a wakeup call for humanity.

Concerned about the overpopulation of our planet and the effect it has on wildlife? Perhaps it's time to talk about the most effective form of male contraception.

It's not revising up its official targets, but the government is hinting that it may now achieve 225 GW by 2022.

Move over, regular solar panels.

Sometimes we should just let a bad idea die.

In anticipation of a new retrospective at the Whitney, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, " Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker, quoting Fuller about the need for innovation:

Allison Arieff reviews the Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. She writes "His brain was constantly consumed with the serious issues of his day —

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day. Vegetarians do not.

Tomorrow, real men eat quiche (cheese pi).

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day.

Fretting about authenticity and appearance detracts from more important concerns.

The device uses a tablet or smartphone to connect you with your pet during the day, give it treats and make sure it's not tearing up the furniture.

Women may sleep better next to dogs than people

The remote atoll which is home to endangered species and historic landmarks can now be explored from your computer.

New street view images suggest that one of the Google maps cars was in an accident

Who needs GPS? Nothing beats a trusty paper map for navigating a foreign city.

Why are we wasting such a valuable resource? Where will it come from if we don't drill for natural gas?

Lack of rain has reduced potato crop yields to a third of what they usually are.

Trump would rather keep humans out of the country than saltwater.

Where have I seen this movie before?

Climate change has become an ethical issue in the eyes of the Danish Council for Ethics, which suggested last week that the government consider a tax on beef, and eventually all foods depending on climate impact.

Only in America are they hard to find. How does that happen?

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."

The monthly vegetarian gathering will also host policy makers to discuss various aspects of climate change.

Not just for barbecues, some companies are switching over completely.

The Obama administration loves its czars almost as much as the media loves using the title. So here goes: The U.S. Asian Carp Czar, also known as John Goss, says he has a multi-pronged strategy to help keep Asian carp from

This long, cold winter has created the most ice cover on the Great Lakes in 20 years—and with ice cover usually at its peak in mid-March, there's still time for records to be broken.

It led to a series of other agreements that protected and cleaned up the Great Lakes environment

The 10,000 year-old ice shelf is half the size of Rhode Island; its collapse will add greatly to global sea level rise.

By 'fertilizing the oceans,' icebergs are actually helping to sequester more carbon. But that doesn't mean we should keep on polluting.

Lessons from Amundsen: travel fast and light with a small footprint.

Take subversive action in small ways.

Too much DIY, not enough realism. Let's just do our best.

This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" defense.

The 'mega cruises' are harming the environment, the island's aesthetic appeal, and local quality of life.

The company is ramping up pressure on suppliers to design less wasteful packaging.

Starting in 2020, the company will redesign packaging to be more environmentally-friendly.

It's time we stopped greenwashing plastic alternatives and realized they do more harm than good.

And researchers estimate there's another 3 trillion pieces in surface sediments.

A ban will take place in the new year, followed by crackdowns on straws and grocery bags.

Some places have looked at paying people to recycle, but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a "pay-as-you-throw" scheme for trash, our readers were

Organic wool comfort wear company Ramblers Way founded by Tom and Kate Chappell, of Tom's of Maine fame has come a long way since their first collection, comprised of natural blonde wool jersey knits

In the US, Arbor Day is April 27, 2007. When this writer was a child, our grade school class planted trees on Arbor Day, told that when we grew up that "our" trees might well still be there, beholden to our childhood actions. We even had an

Is it possible to keep Kosher and still keep a vegan diet?

Doubletree Hotels with the Arbor Day Foundation kicked

The Triumph Elm is being set up on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in honor of Arbor Day this Friday (and you thought the fun ended with Earth Day!). The tree is part of a project by the Morton Arboretum to enlighten