Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, the health food store staple with confounding labeling, has been a green home fixture for over 60 years.

Looking to avoid a date with pesticides this Valentine's Day? Outfit your boudoir with stylish sheets made from organic cotton.

Looking to avoid a date with pesticides this Valentine's Day? Outfit your boudoir with stylish sheets made from organic cotton.

Want to avoid getting intimate with pesticides this Valentine's Day? Outfit your love den with stylish sheet sets made from organic cotton.

Chilly today? Crank down the thermostat and break out that hoodie — a versatile staple that can help you save a few bucks on wintertime heating bills.

Food news and items of interest from around the Web for your weekend reading.

Iron Chef Jose Garces’ whiskey bar in the Rittenhouse Square section of Philadelphia serves a sustainable burger and fries that are worth the wait.

Before you use CFLs in your home, be sure you understand what to do should a bulb break.

A tarantula's toxic brew could serve as an insecticide against agricultural pests that consume the venom orally.

Pyrethroid pesticides stunt the growth of bumblebees, a new study finds, resulting in smaller workers that may be less adept at foraging.

Is a kinder, gentler Exxon/Mobil — with Rex Tillerson at its helm — really changing its stripes?

As Obama plans for an energy makeover, his Department of Energy is still focused on nuclear weapons.

Green States MNN columnist Peter Dykstra asks whether environmental lobbying will be changed along with other government lobbying through Obama ethics reform.

A few years ago, when Janet Jackson “oopsed” her way into Super Bowl and Federal Communications Commission history, 140 million viewers of the biggest game

How a new YouTube video is getting us to think that when it comes to the future of water, it seems the glass is half empty.

A little over a year ago, in a very different world, three economic titans issued "The Carbon Principles," a list of investment guidelines for electric power pr

Nonprofit groups function a little differently than the rest of the business world. Salaries tend to be a bit lower; passions about the mission of the place you

Diamorpha Smallii is the taxonomic name. It has another name, Small's Stonecrop. But in Georgia, we call it Red Stuff.

Nature has a great way of giving clues to the clueless. When spring arrives a little earlier, and fall stays a bit later, it’s not necessarily a good thing.

The brown tree snakes have completely taken over on Guam. The snakes conquered an ecosystem where there were no natural enemies.

It's amazing to see how nature has made itself at home on the abandoned Southerness Golf Club course.

The potent allure or either money or ideology, or both, leads a lot of people to devote their lives to either impeding environmental progress, or enabling envir

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 offers a 50-cent-per-gallon tax credit for entrepreneurs who mix biomass or ethanol with conventionally taxed fossil fuels.

Here's a quick look by the numbers at where we're in trouble on key environmental issues. I've borrowed a bit from the style of the Harper's Index, and a bit fr

Every once in a while, humanity manages to do something so sublimely awful that all we can do is laugh. Next month, we’ll mark the 40th anniversary of one of

It's what you've been waiting for. Peter Dykstra lists his picks for America’s nine greatest environmental heroes.

From their vanilla-scented secretions to their amazing ability to alter an ecosystem, here's what you need to know about beavers.

New books says, 'In the long run, we will neither need nor want professionals to work in the way that they did in the twentieth century and before.'

This recipe for traditional Peruvian Alfajores gets a non-traditional twist with the addition of quinoa. It's a great recipe to make with kids for Mother's Day.

Customers at Ortine's in Brooklyn sit among the gardens where the food on their plates grows.

The Ellis Hotel in Atlanta has a sustainable restaurant, a green certification, and a reasonable price tag.

The USDA deputy secretary Kathleen Merrigan did a Q&A with The Washington Post about challenges for the organic food market.

Antique bulbs create retro vibe but also are the most-energy guzzling option for restaurants.

More than just the seafood is local at this Maryland waterfront restaurant.

Virginia’s Mimslyn Inn brings a fresh idea from farm to table to schools.

Pickled hops are showing up in brewery restaurants alongside of the brews.

As sourcing ingredients directly from local farms gains in popularity, more chefs are building relationships with farmers to get the pick of their crops.

Yes, the burger at this seasonal and local restaurant is everything it's hyped to be.

Organic, grass-fed, free-range beef burgers and fries cooked in olive oil make a fast-food meal worth going out for — once in a while.

Instagramming your restaurant could get you a slap on the wrist from the chef. Should it?

Here are five serious sewage disasters in history, many of them caused by overwhelmed sewer systems. How we can prevent future ones from flowing our way?

As clicheé as it sounds, the grass isn't always greener on the other side when you're debating between grass and artificial turf on playing fields.

Physicists have gotten a first look at the way electrons spin in a tiny diamond wire, and it could mean big things for computer technology.

Popular magazine and testing facility finds that nontoxic paints have improved in recent years, performing just as well as conventional paints.

Here's everything you need to know to get started in the world of legal marijuana — from investing to fundraising to finding a job.

They might just kill a few sites that you know and love.

Biodegradable products may not be as good for the environment as advertised. New research from North Carolina State University shows that biodegradable material

We know our old CRT television sets are loaded with lead, our batteries are bursting with heavy metals and although strides have been made in reducing mercury c

Program offers national recognition for kids working to make their world a greener place.

Paying taxes is an inescapable reality — even in space.