Researchers propose using the vibrations of the heart to keep pacemakers going, eliminating the need to replace batteries.

Matt Grocoff describes how his ancestors lived " in an elegant cradle-to-cradle, closed loop pattern."

Plus, NTSB Investigators said a "culture of deviance" delayed Enbridge's response once the 2010 was first detected.

Raking Without the Cussing Sometimes the greenest products are those not marketed as green at all – take the humble rake for instance. As a TreeHugger I already know that leaf blowers are the scourge of humanity (and don’t even get me started on leaf

Should we be eating more beef in order to slow global warming? It sounds counterintuitive, but it may be so: Cattle could be part of the whole ecological equation to solving climate change and restoring healthy,

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,

For all those of you who insist on green lawns, for your kids to play on or your dogs to roll in, you still don't have to lay down a carpet of thirsty bluegrass, which 95% of American lawns

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

This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just

Image: Fiskars If it's true that gas-powered lawn mowers crank out 5% of the nation's air pollution, then it's truly time to consider workable alternatives. If we haven't convinced you to replace your lawn with a xeriscape or food forest, you might want

Artists installed a grass carpet through a French town to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its arts and nature trail programs.

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

Could this be the lawnmower we've all been waiting for?

Addicted to a lush green yard? It’s time to change the paradigm and kick the grass to the curb.

Is it time to ban these useless and unnecessary noise and pollution machines?

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.

Could it be that green living is making a comeback?

It's not just renewables that are driving down emissions.

More on why the 626 environmental groups demanding action on climate change shouldn't be doctrinaire.

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.

Photographer Michael Ciaglo has shared his haunting photos from Agbogbloshie, the "digital dump" on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana.

Looking beyond traditional recyclables and the "blue bin", here are some of the organizations and companies seeking to redefine what we consider trash with alternative recycling initiatives and methods of reuse.

As Asian countries buy more electronics, the piles of discarded devices are increasing and it's putting people in danger.

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

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

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

Want to know if you can go solar? Now there's a good chance you can easily find out.

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

Reusability beats out biodegradability any day.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

Electric bikes are the great leveller; a lot more people will be doing this.

Well, that happened fast.

The rollout starts in Seattle, then more broadly.

Now, if only we could get US drivers out of their trucks.

What's next after the coal purge?

A judge has ruled against Monsanto; company complains that it would drive some customers away. Unsealed documents add to drama.

In a word, no. Ford can sell this fiction, but it is all about friction.

Docked electric cars can be worse than dockless scooters for pedestrians, but the UEone is a step in the right direction.

E-bikes will eat cars, and H2 bikes will eat Toyotas.

The Mandometer was originally developed to treat eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa; it was developed to "teach patients how to eat and recognize hunger and satiety." There are clinics using the technology in Sweden, the USA and

Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights, "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes

Darya Pino of Summer Tomato prepared this terrific flow chart to help navigate the supermarket.Marion Nestle of Food Politics liked it, noting:

Now Michael Pollan's Food Rules wasn't my favorite book of his, but it was a best-seller and a new edition is being written--and Pollan is in general a fine writer. To help craft it Pollan is partnering with Slow Food USA for a user-generated portion

Attend your own green film fest at home with filmmakers' live Q&A

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

Images: Black & Decker Here in the southeast, my front lawn is already starting to perk up in response to intimations of spring. Those handsome green blades of fescue are yawning, stretching, and preparing to greet the season with exuberant,

They are everywhere, the full page ads with smiling people proud of how much money they saved and how they qualified for all those government grants. But what did they really save? Perhaps a bit of energy, but how much?

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought

Katherine Salant writes in the Washington Post:Can a big house be green? Yes, but a smaller house will always be greener because fewer resources were used in its construction and less energy is needed to heat and

If every home in the U.S. switched just one inefficient light for an Energy Star one, that would be equivalent to taking 800,000 vehicles off the road in term of greenhouse gas emissions