Changes closer to home would be nice too.

Why do we always think other animals are so simple?

For the first time ever, insects took the place of cheese at an upscale gastronomical event.

Our photo of the day illustrates the whimsical world of camouflage.

Trade the morning shower for one before bed for better sleep and more.

This contemporary urban home mixes reclaimed materials from local demolition sites with a modern design.

The system will also help reduce the spread of disease in rural villages.

Using traditional techniques and materials, this design adapts the age-old idea of evaporative cooling to create a low-energy, alternative air conditioner.

A dramatic act of protest reminds companies to take responsibility for the wasteful packaging they produce.

Over the past 15 years, awareness and interest in livestock conditions and wellbeing have increased exponentially, leading to significant improvements. How much further can it go?

The so-called "bleeding" veggie burger is bleedin' everywhere these days.

A few intrepid film makers went to check it out. Their responses were not exactly uniform.

I move around a lot - between being home, at school, and now living abroad, I've lived in seven different apartments or rooms in the last five years. And I don't see myself settling down any time soon. That's why I'm

Perfect idea for spaces with poor air quality: a multi-functional hanging lamp that grows air-purifying plants.

Mini-spots, reflectors and candelabra bulbs were supposed to become more efficient next year, saving 80 billion kWh.

If all Americans adopted this (almost) waterless method of cooking pasta, we'd save billions of gallons of water.

They are light and efficient and easy to tow.

There is a shipping container building revolution coming, but it won't look like a bunch of silly boxes.

Just because garment workers are desperate doesn't mean we should exploit them.

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.

Well, giant shrimp the size of your forearm are now a thing we can worry about.

Turns out whales have been contributing to rejuvenating the ocean ecosystem this whole time!

Archeologists unearthed some eerie graffiti in history's most famous graveyard.

Tiny houses don't have to be overly cute and rustic, as this little modern home shows.

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While San Diego was not considered a very green city just a few years ago, this sunny patch of paradise is quietly coming into its own by leaps and bounds. Enough businesses are seeing the light, and new green ones are opening

Solar grid parity will vary from city to city. A new interactive map helps show how it will spread.

This renovated bus is a mobile coworking space that brings location-independent professionals out into the great outdoors, combining work with a hike, a bike trip or a surf ride on the waves.

A typical pacemaker could be powered by solar cells as small as 3.6 square centimeters, which could be implanted under the skin, thereby avoiding the need for periodic battery replacements.

After decades of increasingly complicated insomnia fixes, this one little thing changed everything.

Although heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the US, many don't recognize the symptoms of a heart attack.

And it reduces food waste!

Data is not just for the internet giants; using remote laser-sensing technology, it can generate lovely maps of a river's long-past history too.

A new article published in the online journal PLoS ONE takes on the issue of energy sprawl -- namely how much land is required to produce energy from different sources -- under different potential US energy and climate policies in 2030.

At a time when excessive pressures on the earth's land and water resources are of growing concern, there is a massive new demand emerging for cropland to produce fuel for cars--one that threatens world food

After several decades of Lrapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to keep up with the demands of a growing, increasingly affluent, population.

The first large-scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013. The New

Kidney failure is killing sugarcane workers in Central America who supply sugar for both our sweet tooth and demand for ethanol.

The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low-income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history.

There is an election coming up and the farm vote matters.

Here's a one-stop green guide to traveling in San Jose, from hotels to a night on the town.

Sensors on cell phones is a concept that has gone mainstream enough that this Kickstarter project has blown its funding goals out of the water. The device turns your cell phone into a "Swiss Army Knife of environmental sensors."

This competition for the best environmental photography never fails to be interesting and professional.

Art Works For Change is using a unique online exhibit to inspire change through storytelling, including 'featured tours' of the galleries by leading eco-organizations.

Architype demonstrates that simple forms and careful window choices are the way to build efficient, affordable homes.

UC Berkeley’s new robot is the most vertically agile robot ever built – why is it so unnerving?

Tokyo 2020's organizing committee will transform old smartphones, laptops, and digital cameras into a true treasure.

Beekeeper, and World War II veteran, is at risk of losing his beehives he's had since the 1950s.

It is designed to dry beeswax wraps more easily, but its usefulness goes beyond that.

Celebrities buying plots of land to block developments is the new new. Last year people opposed to the third runway at Heathrow Airport bought up a plot in the middle of the runway in an attempt to thwart it. Now opponents to