Toni Desrosiers, founder of Abeego beeswax wraps, wants people to start thinking about the natural life cycle of food.

In honor of World Environment Day, organizers of the World’s fair highlighted the greenest exhibit designs.

As part of their "I Have a Green Job" series, Grist talks to Michael Thompson, a professional bee keeper and co-founder of Chicago Honey Co-op, an agricultural cooperative that's dedicated to chemical-free beekeeping.When

The head of a cooperative of honey harvesters, a park guide, and a doctor who uses a garden of medicinal plants to treat asthma and other ailments are

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

Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing...

They are building "five great houses that are comfortable to live in and will have happy occupants."

This stylish and durable trailer looks like a cross between a mini-Airstream and a horse trailer, and has a kitchen in the back.

Inspired by her own spine-shattering accident, this sculpture shows the struggle and transformation of these remarkable insects.

This is Paris' largest mural, made with hand-folded origami paper birds and a bit of spraypaint.

This small 118-square-foot apartment holds a few pleasant, space-saving surprises.

Using some inventive interventions, an old parking garage is transformed into a two-bedroom apartment in Paris.

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.

In a press conference for an upcoming Carnegie Hall concert, Smith and the founders of Pathway to Paris talk about art, community, and keeping the spirit up for climate action.

There's finally momentum on the international stage. And this is one of the most ambitious announcements yet.

Forget about 3D printing houses; digital fabrication using sustainable materials is a much bigger deal.

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

It is better than a fixed standing desk? They make a good case for it.

It's really all you need in this era of notebook computers.

It's clever, cheap, burns calories and keeps the blood flowing and heart pumping.

After 52,696 steps, a review of a LifeSpan treadmill desk.

They're good for some things, but researchers say they're not the magic bullet solution for health that many would like them to be.

A Worcester’s Buttonquail was caught on camera for the first time by a French documentary team who were filming native bird trappers at work in the Philippines. No one realized how rare the bird was until it was identified as a Worcester’s Buttonquail

Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

As their nation's sole law enforcement agency, the Philippines National Police carry a heavy burden when it comes to keeping the country safe -- but arresting one of the biggest threats they face will take shovels, not clubs or handcuffs.

Grassroots activist honored for 10-year protest against a proposed nickel mine on Mindoro Island

"The mining companies were telling us that it's safe... We did our research and discovered they were lying through their teeth."

Many feared the worst, and it seems like that's what we got.

Companies will do anything to protect their brand – maybe even redesign packaging.

Remember the story of Ohio's Bay Shore coal-fired power plant, the one that (perfectly legally) kills at least 46 million fish a year? Well that's still happening, but not without some legal challenges. A coalition of

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio.

10 coal plants in Chicago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will be shut down sooner than expected.

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia, eating Philly Greens.

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.

Because shipping containers are designed to move and these ones might have to.

One newspaper says there is no difference between organic and conventional milk; another says the test pool is far too small to make that conclusion.

A lot of the permaculture design principles make just as much sense for buildings.

Who needs trees when you can have beer in corner stores?

The Conga mine, which is majority owned by Newmont Mining Corp, would produce gold as well as copper and silver. Protesters are concerned the mine will contaminate their water and affect a major aquifer.

Oldest ever popcorn discovered in Peru tells the story of indigenous corn varieties versus gmo monoculture crops.

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.

New research documents that mantises worldwide are eating small birds; in the US, invasive mantis species are devouring hummingbirds.