OPT harnesses ocean power with some bright yellow buoys (VIDEO).

New website pulls together a wealth of information on renewable energy and tracks green stimulus spending.

Finland's cleantech sector traces innovative industry back to ancient roots. A blogger tour of Helsinki and surrounds.

When the Winter Olympics wrap up, Vancouver will be passing more than one torch. The city could light the way for green cities of the future by proving economic

The vision of an energy-efficient super grid that allows powers companies to communicate real-time may be possible through Google-Spectrum Bridge partnership.

A study from the Civil Society Institute reveals that party lines divide many people's feelings about global warming, energy independence and green jobs. Here a

Renewable energy is a powerful force for the decentralization of Big Energy (and Big Government). It's odd that it isn't more popular in supposedly 'radical' an

Las Vegas hosts a clean energy summit, and politicians pledge allegiance to green cars, photovoltaic arrays, geothermal and wind turbines.

Harish Hande launched his solar company to dispel the myth that renewable energy was too expensive for poor people. The West could learn something from him.

Rich natural gas deposits off the shore of Israel can meet the country's energy needs well into the next century, provided it can be extracted economically.

If fracking techniques pollute water supplies, what will happen to beer production?

Impact Energies sells and leases solar panel systems to people making less than $6 a day in Ghana. It was acquired by Persistent Energy Partners.

Many people want to go off grid and lose the electric bill, but does it make sense?

The Guest-Imator is a digital portion calculator that even considers the amount of leftovers you want to have. It works for vegan meals, too.

As far as creative ideas to keep food food from being wasted go, Toast Beer is pretty brilliant.

Sweden is to thank (go figure) for a hot new lifestyle trend known as plogging that encourages participants to beautify cities while burning calories.

Ubiquitous Mardi Gras beads can be made of other things: Biodegradable seed bombs, anyone?

A singular place to say 'I do' in the Seattle area, Brightwater Treatment Plant can process 36 million gallons of wastewater daily.

This weekend will feature several overlapping events meant to combat a growing plague of garbage around the world.

The dictionary's most popular word of the year has to do with waste.

Although new on the Indian retail scene, Ikea already has big plans to alleviate one of the country's largest environmental ills.

Malaysia and the Philippines are forcefully rejecting trash from wealthier countries.

When you can smell garbage from miles away, pizza doesn't stand a chance with bears.

The predators burn energy 1.6 times faster than previously thought, a study finds, helping explain why the loss of sea ice hits them so hard.

Think bird-watching is boring? It's not if you visit these 10 destinations during bird migration season.

Psychologists and scientists are concerned about the rising rates of suicide among children, and what the shrinking gender gap might mean.

A colorful oath or spirited expletive can heal the body and soul. (We have the science to prove it.)

The pilfering of e-mail correspondence among climate scientists from a major climate center in Britain two weeks ago has grown into a very public controversy un

Are ex-KGB hackers behind "Climategate"? What's the latest drama in Copenhagen? Can a regular, affordable home really produce more power than it uses?

Academic Board of Inquiry has cleared the scientist at the center of "Climategate" and his "trick." So will the spin machine finally shut up?

Phil Jones and The Union of Concerned Scientists say The Daily Mail misrepresented a statement about climate change data to support skeptics' claims.

255 top climate scientists are reiterating their conclusions on global warming in the face of increased e-mail attacks.

'Hackergate' — a desperate attempt by climate skeptics to revive the manufactured 'Climategate' scandal in advance of U.N. climate conference — will backfir

Today HP unveils a breakthough in powerful computer chip technology that can process data, store memory and stack 3-dimensionally.. just like a brain synapse.

AT&T's ZERO Charger won’t draw electricity from a power outlet when disconnected from a mobile phone.

Earth Day has provided the occasion for a tsunami of eco-friendly apps for the iPhone and now Android gets some green love.

Who needs nature when you can have virtual reality windows that simulate any setting with the flick of an iPhone app?

Nintendo gets the lowest score on the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics for its failure to address e-waste or cut CO2 emissions.

Are the days of 'Star Wars'-type droids upon us? Israeli researchers host a tournament to see who can create a robot with the most human handshake.

New hi-tech Environ thermostat allows you to remotely monitor and control your home energy use.

Empowering consumers to make smart decisions can change the marketplace and shrink our national energy footprint.

The Tea Party and a few others don't like the idea of 'Big Brother' monitoring our electricity usage.

A light-emitting diode (LED) developed at MIT operates at 230-percent efficiency. That's not a typo. LEDs will provide 70 percent of the world's general lightin

Finnish scientists are studying the possibility of turning water droplets into digital bits and using them to power computers instead of electricity.

Technology may be drastically changing each year, but there are a few older gadgets you can still buy without regretting your decision later.

The ultrathin New Apple MacBook laptop has been called one of the "least repairable, least recyclable" computers on the market. Sustainability was not included

A prototype wearable computer runs on its own OS, features 720p displays over both eyes and recognizes facial and hand movements.

2014's big tech news comes early in the year with the announcement that Google plans to acquire Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in cash.

An unstoppable smart home start-up faces its first major bump in the road: Safety concerns over the Nest Protect smoke detector's 'Nest Wave' function.

Daniel Ballou separates the working parts from the heavy parts to make a speaker system out of concrete blocks.