In a lawsuit settlement today, General Mills agreed to remove the “100% Natural” from more than 20 of its products.

But more than that, the film is a love story about cooking and gardening -- and the importance of regaining control over where our food comes from.

And why 'ethical' grocery shopping isn't going to save the world.

Radiolab tells the story of the New York City Poop Train, which used to ship tons of human waste sludge from New York City to farmers in Colorado, 1,600 miles away.

The electricity-free and low-water Drumi device could be one method of washing clothes without taking a huge toll on the environment.

The Care Label Project will add a label to thousands of clothes in hopes that people will adopt laundry habits that are better for both fabric and the Earth.

Help your clothes last longer by learning how to decode the mysterious hieroglyphics of care labels.

It is by far the most energy efficient way of packaging beer. It tastes better and there is no BPA.

If any of you have backpacked the Presidential Range and Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, you know that the weather can change in a hot minute. Over the past 20 years, we’ve hiked through hail, lightening storms, and

The North American holiday actually has its roots in a newspaper strike in Toronto, a fight over toxic working conditions.

The unicorn of cheap clean home energy will most likely be found in an affordable solar roof that doesn't look like a solar roof, and that can pay for itself quickly. This startup may have developed it.

This home for a family of three and two cats has been built with efficiency, comfort and health in mind.

The largest honey packer in the US faces criminal charges over fraudulent trade in Chinese honey.

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

This young startup uses cellular agriculture to grow fish out of water -- delicious, nutritious, and cruelty-free.

Capt. Neill's Seafood Inc. said its blue crab meat was American-grown, but it was imported from South America and Asia.

It wasn't too long ago that biofuels were basking in the glow of nearly everyone's approval - a quick fix for reducing CO2 emissions from transport. The EU aims to fill 10% of its transport needs with biofuels by 2020. But biofuel's easy ride may be

These ultra-thin solar charging devices use amorphous silicon technology, which is said to be effective even in shady or lower-light conditions.

Motoi Yamamoto's salt labyrinths and intricate installations are as stunning as they are sustainable.

The Nature Conservancy teamed up with two artists to create a habitat-enhancing sculpture made from natural materials.

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

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

It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen?

The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.

This architecture and engineering design used to be all the rage. What happened?

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's News21 program and Good Magazine have shortlisted the three finalists in a competition to design a better food label. They "asked for designs that were informative, instructive and

Not sure if you really want to live in a tiny house? This tiny home builder is making these cabins from salvaged materials, which visitors can test out at an eco-retreat in Maryland.

Kids have been digging in salt mines for thousands of years.

Every company should have to do this– more useful information that consumers need.

Some legislators in Maine want the state's food to be labeled sooner.

Humanity's innate love for nature is integrated into this design for a biologically attuned and meditative workspace in London.

An exhibition of their work is at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.

It has challenged designers since the invention of the bar code: What to do about those stupid little labels?

Has the Costa Rica Foreign Minister really just suggested that the Sea Shepherd founder might voluntarily go to Costa Rica to face trial?

I love it when a retail giant highlights eco-friendly products, so when I picked up Pottery Barn's Christmas 2008 catalogue, I was excited to see

Last week I posted a stunning wooden bicycle, and the beautiful heritage of wooden ceilings in Andalusia from a series of wood design from Spain that Confeadera put together. Other works include the Fab Lab House, some

Image: Google Maps. We think this is the Widows Creek power plant where the spill happened, but if anyone from Alabama could confirm, please do so in the comments. Coal Waste Spill at At Alabama Coal Plant It wasn't so long ago that we were writing

A little salamander that is found in only a

A most painful demonstration of Murphy's Law - that

British Petroleum has created a 22 mile long undersea oil plume, measured as "dispersed" beneath the ocean's surface, stretching from the wellhead, toward Mobile Alabama. Via the Chron: "The thick plume was detected

Last weekend, January 22nd - 23rd , over 500 volunteers from Alabama and across the country came together in Mobile Bay to lay the beginnings of oyster reefs. The volunteers strapped on boots

Environmentalists and Urban Planners on the run as smart growth and sustainability become illegal in the State.

Even in the dark pit of poverty, where rays of hope shine their dimmest, there's often still light enough for a new life to take hold.

Cece Durden, a 17-year-old from Uniontown, Alabama, fights coal ash pollution in her hometown

Here is a way to squeeze six stories of building in the space of five.

Some question if it is even possible.

They save concrete and look great after all these years.

It's a celebration of a technology that covers longer spans with less concrete and looks good, too. Here are some I have feasted on.

Companies and manufacturers are creating custom solutions for their difficult-to-recycle waste