Gift will help support farmers market and healthy bodega programs; Newark Mayor Cory Booker speaks at the launch event.

The initiative’s sponsors are looking at Vermont’s local food program as a model.

Don't miss out on the many lovely things available this spring at local farmers markets!

American Farmland Trust morphs the America’s Favorite Farmers Market contest into the I Love My Farmers Market Celebration..

You can still be a proud sustainable foodie if you don’t grow your vegetables, raise your chickens or do it all yourself.

These five food initiatives aim to increase food security, improve quality of life, and decrease money spent on diet-related diseases.

It's harder to eat local as the days get shorter, but it's possible. Here's how.

There are dozens of reasons to go the farmers market, but opening day, these five are particularly important.

You’ve brought home fresh, local, seasonal produce from the farmers market. Now get creative with it in your kitchen.

A list of the best new cookbooks for summer has me making a list of the books I already have to cook from this season.

On “Live with Kelly and Michael,” the talk show host gave a shout out to the “greatest farm stand in South Jersey.”

Turn the abundance of ripe, flavorful, seasonal tomatoes into the unexpected – cocktails fresh from the garden.

Police chief refuses to intervene and offers his support for the rights of breastfeeding mothers.

The nip in the air says it's time to transition from summer cooking to fall cooking with this end-of-summer vegetable soup.

Some markets are getting creative to make sure all SNAP recipients have access to fresh, local, healthy food.

Quick facts about the Los Angeles water situation from the Blue Planet expedition.

Quick facts about the Yuma water situation from the Blue Planet expedition.

Video: Alexandra Cousteau and Expedition Blue Planet follow Colorado's dry riverbed to its historic mouth in the Upper Gulf of California.

Video: Alexandra Cousteau investigates The Hoover Dam and the draining of Lake Mead.

Video: Alexandra Cousteau revisits the TVA Kingston Coal Ash Spill, which was six times larger than the Gulf oil spill.

Alexandra Cousteau revisits Scott St. Pierre in Louisiana and learns how he and others are coping with the oil spill.

Alexandra Cousteau searches for the lost creeks that now flow under Toronto roadways.

Video: What happens when the fruits and veggies at your local grocery store go bad?

Learn simple ways to make household cleaners that are cheap and safe to use.

Clark Howard offers more money saving tips on weather stripping and light bulbs.

Video: Visit a restaurant where every staffer spends time on the restaurant farm.

In the Green Room: What is a tree farmer? Chuck Leavell talks about being a tree farmer.

Laura Turner Seydel offers easy daily transportation tips to lessen your impact.

Learn how to make eco-smart decisions at home.

Spruce up your holiday décor by bringing nature in with these beautiful and easy DIY projects.

DIY Christmas ornaments add nature to your decorations

Geometric crystal ornaments bring on the color, and they're easy to make too.

Some cities don't recycle glass, but that doesn't mean you can't reuse glass bottles for candles, hummingbird feeders or even chandeliers.

These DIY projects will have you see plastic bottles in completely new ways.

NREL’s new Research Support Facilities basement maze will help cut energy use by two-thirds.

Before interviewing Energy Secretary Steven Chu, <i>The Daily Show</i> host Jon Stewart fell asleep talking about the Markey-Waxman energy bill.

Follow the proceedings of the Clean Energy Summit via Twitter #NCES09.

Oct. 30 is National Weatherization Day 2009, and awareness events are planned across the country.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act update webinar archive is now available for viewing.

In his commencement speech at Washington University, Energy Secretary Chu encouraged graduates to "Do something that matters. Help save the world."

Job-creating grants are making their way to a swing state near you!

Learn how solar panels convert the sun’s rays into energy in this DOE video.

Turbine sites in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia identified as prime parcels for projects.

Entrepreneurs are encouraged to participate in the America's Next Top Energy Innovator challenge, hosted by the Department of Energy.

The federal government and private lenders team up on a new green home improvement program, but it comes with a few strings attached.

Sixteen teams from colleges across the country spent three years building hybrids, plug-in hybrids and even hydrogen cars. This week in Washington, they met in

The solar company's collapse has electrified many critics of President Obama. But what does it say about the sustainability of U.S. solar power overall?

Republicans in Congress have delayed part of a 2007 law that would require U.S. light bulbs to be more energy-efficient, scoring a symbolic victory.

Novel generator uses harmless viruses to create an electric charge.

Breaking from many in her party, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski says 'there is a role' for the federal loan program that financed the now-bankrupt solar firm.