Could TreeHuggers soon find themselves hugging a fake tree or idly philosophizing in meadows of artificial grass? More than 225 million square feet of Astroturf have been manufactured since the plastic carpeting made

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,

It sounds counter-intuitive to say the least, but a team of scientists has discovered that running barefoot is better for your feet. What!

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

Do posh bees make better honey? These bees, living in the heart of Mayfair, only forage in the best places such as St. James Park and Buckingham Palace.

It's the first living painting in London's Trafalgar Square, and maybe the first anywhere. A Van Gogh picture has been turned into a green living vertical wall.

"The world is sweet and verdant

After reviewing the major religions of the world's stances on the environment, it seems pretty clear to me that there are more commonalities than differences. In the realm of metaphysics there are genuine and significant

Some nice symbolism here... WWF-Nepal reports that it has just completed its target for 2011 of planted 108,000 trees in the Sacred Garden of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born roughly 2,500 years ago. Over the next ten years the

Some timely examples of the intersection of Islam and environmental stewardship, both coming via the good folks over at Green Prophet: 1) Any new mosque built in Qatar must be eco-friendly, and 2) a new green guide to

An interesting step towards eco-friendly spiritual travel: The Alliance of Regions and Conservation, working with WWF, is about to launch the Green Pilgrimage Network. The program, to formally kick off at an event in

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

Could it be that green living is making a comeback?

It turns out leaving the EU is quite hard. Who knew?

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.

Starting in 1936 they wired the entire country, the houses, the tools and the farms, changing America. It is time to think big and do it again.

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

Take a virtual tour of these amazing spots.

The Street View cameras now take you on extreme vertical tours alongside famous climbers.

And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.

The tech giant has hit this major renewable energy goal ahead of all its competitors.

A fleet of the cars mapped methane leaks in three major cities and the results aren't good.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is experimenting with a new energy storage technology.

Reusability beats out biodegradability any day.

Slow, incremental changes are more effective than trying to do it all at once.

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

The rollout starts in Seattle, then more broadly.

For Monsanto, superweeds are just another selling point for its products.

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.

The Open Sesame documentary examines the importance of open source seeds.

The Guardian's Kara Moses asks, "Do we need conclusive scientific proof to become concerned about an issue?" I think not, because sometimes even conclusive proof isn't enough for government and society to act.

The #1 most-used herbicide in the world is in you, me, and our pee. Should we do something?

EWG tested 28 brands of conventional oat-based cereals; they all had glyphosate residue, most of them above healthy standards

Michael Pollan writes in the New York Times about the connection between the American diet and the cost of health care; Surprisingly, conservative writers like Marie-Josée Kravis are saying much the same thing,

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch Bioneers 2009 - a weekend-long gathering in San Rafael, California of social and scientific innovators focused on environmental issues - kicked off on Friday with Michael Pollan as a headlining speaker. His talk came in the

Michael Pollan's first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or "highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from

All the foodies are outraged by the New York Times Expose on the marketing of cheese. The front page story While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales by Michael Moss describes how Dairy Management helps

If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow

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

The USGBC, and their insanely popular rating system LEED, have been on the frontlines of the green building movement for quite a while. Everyone has taken a shot at them at least once. There’s all the talk about how the credits are

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

Energy Star is regarded by consumers as one of the most reliable raters of electronics and appliances in terms of knowing how much energy a device consumes. The organization continually raises the bar (little by little, but still raises) on energy

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?

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

We're well aware of the importance of health when it comes to preparing foods in the kitchen—between Salmonella, E. Coli, and a variety of other

Can hotels be 100% eco-friendly and affordable? I tried out Starwood's Element Hotel in NYC to find out how far a 411-room urban hotel can go green. The result is mostly positive with a few letdowns.

The new rule is expected to save Americans $167 billion in energy costs.

Image Credit: Getty ImagesFestivals are not a modern day invention. The roots of the celebratory gathering go as far back as the Egyptians, who used to toast the annual overflow of the Nile, which irrigated crops. Whether it be religion (the most common