The French agriculture ministry has sentenced Emmanuel Giboulot six months in jail for not taking preventative measures against a bacterial vine disease.

The Resilient Design Institute suggests we should all have six weeks of food in our homes. Too much or too little?

A new patent filing suggests that the tech giant has fuel cells in mind for future computers and gadgets.

On the same day that protesters delivered petitions for better working conditions at Apple suppliers to Apple stores, hackers breached Foxconn security.

Leave the office behind. Sierra Club is offering a wild summer ride. It even pays real money.

Basically, Pakistan's hydroelectric reservoirs are drying up. Several are reported to be at "dead level," which means the turbines can only use run-of-the-river flows, and have lower output as a result. Because natural gas supplies are also low,

No more excuses for soft, moldy apples in your fruit bowl!

SAMARA's cruelty-free apple leather is created from the waste of the juicing industry.

A new twist in the plot for the controversial pipeline, as TransCanada asks for a suspension of its application.

The fruit company is spreading its clean energy bets across many sources.

Pay attention, as this sort of thing could hit other mountainous areas that are dependent on glaciers for their water supply.

Solar City and Tesla take the Kinks out of solar power with plenty of PowerPacks

These spikes might be intermittent. But they are getting bigger and more frequent.

A consumer product guide compiled along with iFixit shows which brands make it easy to fix our gadgets and which don't.

An important, if short, cautionary tale on being dependent on any single foreign source of energy.

The organization scored the biggest gadget makers on their products' environmental records.

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

You just have to look at the parking ratios to know they are environmental disaster areas.

Getting enough nutrients from food reduces risk of death, not the same could be said for nutrients in pill form. And in fact, some supplements were linked to increased risk of death.

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

There are a lot of good reasons to get rid of that old plug.

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

Of course, when purchasing a new appliance, it makes sense to go with the most efficient energy star rated appliance. BUT, buying a brand new efficient energy star rated appliance is not always greener or less expensive

The Right to Repair movement is rapidly growing – and it can't come soon enough.

Chances are that you've never heard of Gene DeSantis, but his story seems one destined for legend. In fact, he's already being likened to a modern-day Johnny Appleseed. For almost three decades, DeSantis has made it his mission

Three years after a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, health care workers are still finding it difficult to get medical supplies, but an aid group is putting 3D printing to work to make some of the needed items.

Barley is a key ingredient in beer and cannot withstand rising temperatures and longer droughts.

I was reading an apple pie recipe by Food Network chef Michael Smith in my newspaper the other day. I've made a few of Smith's recipes before and I've liked them. The recipe for the crust intrigued me because

Yum...there's nothing like homemade applesauce. It always tastes better when you've made it yourself. Our question is: How many food miles will this DIY job add?

We have applauded Prince Charles before for his willingness to spend massive amounts of money on green causes. And now HRH has done it again. He has purchased 1,000 of the rarest British apple varieties. So have Geoffrey Anderton, who owns Lochnaw

Photo credit: Abhijit Tembhekar via Flickr/Creative Commonsdigg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/scientists-develop-rot-proof-apple-stays-fresh-four-months.php';Scientists in Australia have developed an apple that won't rot. Or, won't rot

From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple--that stays fresh for 4 months--a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and

Every day, New York City residents waste 270,000 pounds of food. Want to know what that looks like? Here's an unforgettable way to imagine it - fill up a subway train with the equivalent amount of apples, and release it onto the

Honeybee Baby and Mom at the Honey Festival Photo By Bonnie Hulkower With Rosh Hashana just a few days ago, I am still remembering the taste of honey drenched apples and challah. There have been plenty of apples and honeys all over NYC in the past

Schoolchildren plant a forgotten apple tree in New York.

Lots of great Food Day events across the country, but New York's will be particularly tasty and loud.

Artist Jessica Rath uses sculpture and photography to highlight the problem with new hybrid apples and endangered varieties.

No one loves an apple more than a schoolteacher, but even they could learn a thing or two about the best way to eat it.

From the craft room to the bathroom to the kitchen, the humble apple has many more application than just sauce and pie.

Supporters think the Arctic Apple will be a game changer - the first GMO to be marketed directly to consumers as convenience food.

This is a silly post, about a silly bit of news, but is a reminder that we really should think about what we eat.

One study and a pile of anecdotal evidence has shown that perhaps the decision to remove fluoride in 2011 wasn't such a great idea.

When you buy a Boerum top, you'll know everything about where and how that item was produced.

I wrote last year about the Boulder-based Unreasonable Institute's search for people who have great ideas, who think big, who want to change the world, and who seem like they can. Last year's fellowship was a great

A Federal judge has ruled that seven Virginia homeowners made legitimate damage claims regarding corrosion of metal items in the home and personal inconvenience caused by use of

I'm not saying you can directly attribute this one to climate change, but coming on the heals of NOAA saying the past April was the warmest on record, it's likely at least a sign of things to come: The Alabama Cooperative

Wastes are made in the kitchen.

When I reported on a planned 8,100 cow super-dairy in the UK, I noted that many dairy farmers were concerned that these industrial-scale operations would expose the public to the fact that even most smaller

The Center for Food Safety's recently launched network is a bid to preserve global plant biodiversity and work toward food security around the globe.

In cars, houses, furniture and electronics, The trend was toward increasing repairability and simplifying recycling. Apple goes its own way.