Whether you're sending your oldest child off to his first day as a freshman or helping your youngest prepare for the beginning of her senior year, making sure your kids have the green gear they need for a successful year at college is

The Post-Landfill Action Network, launched at the University of New Hampshire, challenges campuses across the continent to start tackling waste seriously.

Investing in youth is an investment in a sustainable future

Former Stanford dean Julie Lythcott-Haims sets out a sensible guide for why and how American parenting needs to change, if we truly want our kids to do well in life.

Who needs a dining hall when you've got a dorm kitchen available? Even if you don't, make it happen with a few basic tools and skills.

It has become a familiar pattern. A natural disaster occurs and we can't help but wonder how it may have been influenced by climate change. Here's a look at how the Colorado rains and flood were connected to global warming.

Rising out of surrounding trees and rock, this playful little area takes its design cues from local bird habitats and the town's skiing traditions.

This beautiful area near Salida, Colorado, could become the next national monument, with your help.

Andrew Michler figures it out in his own home in Colorado.

In a ghost town in the one of the coldest places in the US, lone resident Billy Barr has spent 4 decades recording snowfall … to the enormous delight of scientists.

And people keep saying it's too expensive to deal with climate change.

This contemporary small dwelling has both a main-floor bedroom and a secondary sleeping loft.

Urine for a surprise as Alex Wilson concludes that urine collection beats composting. I was, because they are not mutually exclusive.

I really don't want to crap all over this new toilet design, but it is too complex, too expensive and no, it won't charge your phone.

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.

Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy

With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000

photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr White nose syndrome, a disease caused by exposure to a particular fungus, first discovered in 2006, has been afflicting bats in the eastern United States and appears to be spreading. Considering that it's

Insect hotels are architectural, recycled and perfectly formed. But you can't stay there: they are for the bugs.

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.

In the face of a devastating epidemic, bats need our tender loving care more than ever. If one sneaks inside, here's how to remove it without toxicants or harm.

The 'Spatzenfavela' ('favela' for sparrows) provides a home for birds that have lost their city nests and roosts due to urban renewal.

When a bird charity installs a wind turbine, they're going to do it right.

Geothermal is a stable & plentiful source of clean energy available all around the world, including in the United States (especially in the West). But that industry is still in its infancy and very little of that resource's potential is being tapped.

From Gasland II to Dirty Business, some of the most active environmental documentary makers in the country are joining forces to build a movement.

Brazil's economy is growing fast, and it is expected to need an increase of 50% in power generation capacity over the next decade.

The holidays are a time of joy, happiness, families and... waste? Estimates show that almost 25% of waste produced in the US comes from the six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years. But we can change that, starting now.

Rob Cotter used to build expensive sports cars. Now he makes vehicles that are much, much cooler.

As alternatives to Big Oil and Big Coal emerge, it would be a mistake for executives to rely on loyalty or love from the public.

The ENGO charging station uses kinetic tiles and solar panels to charge up to 14 smartphones at a time, and provides free WiFi access and an emergency phone.

Anti-greens often try to make economic arguments against the big spring-cleaning that our civilization is going through.

This 5W thermoelectric generator converts heat from a chimney or camp stove into electricity for charging USB devices.

The floating tidal stream turbine off the coast of Scotland has proven that it can produce power safely and cheaply year round.

We also have to start retiring what we already have and replacing it with cleaner power plants, furnaces and vehicles. Now.

It's Crazytown in Des Moines as Republicans fight Soviet style collectivism, AKA sustainable development

From reproductive rights to voter ID, there have been some battles in North Carolina of late. The environment has not escaped unharmed.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says “It is time to call out Agenda 21conspiracy theories and the people spreading them.”

It's more than just a bike; it is a different way of thinking about design and manufacturing.

A new study from Pew Research is totally depressing, showing how left and right are moving further apart.

Adam Sternbergh finds that bag bans are a symbol of something much bigger.

Why can't we all just get along? New campaign humanizes cyclists.

The new digital billboards taking over our cities bring a whole new set of problems. That's why we need these orgs.

Americans don't walk and stop and cafés or take vacations. That's why they get to drive $75,000 plug-in hybrids.

During this year's extremely cold winter full of ice storms and the effects of a polar vortex, moments of warmth between strangers are created in a bus shelter.

Sometimes it is hard to know what these companies are really telling us.

What to do about all that CO2 emitted when you make cement? Inject it back into the stuff and turn it back into limestone.

I've done it, you've done it, we've all done it. But why do we do it?

It already exists, is on the roads, and has its own flashy commerical

Maybe other jurisdictions will learn from this.

Got a froggy "city throat"? It might be from metal particles emitted from braking cars and trucks.