The diet appears to act on gut bacteria in a way that helps hinder physical frailty and reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find.

Indulging in a Western-style diet for 7 days impaired the brain function in healthy young people and made them want to overeat, researchers find.

The big light bulb manufacturers get what they want out of the DOE and the President. We should all stop buying anything from them.

US Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has reported on a compromise between three Southern US Governors who had been struggling over diminished access to shared surface waters. The language used to report this progress indicates a small

A Federal judge has ruled that seven Virginia homeowners made legitimate damage claims regarding corrosion of metal items in the home and personal inconvenience caused by use of

British Petroleum has created a 22 mile long undersea oil plume, measured as "dispersed" beneath the ocean's surface, stretching from the wellhead, toward Mobile Alabama. Via the Chron: "The thick plume was detected

They have toilets but they just dump the sewage out the back. This is nuts.

Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom.

It's one thing to drive to the mall, but one fifth of Canadian shoppers are driving to another country. That's crazy.

We don't have a holiday Friday and Thanksgiving was weeks ago here. What's this all about?

The happiness you feel in a shopping spree may feel as good as the happiness from helping someone, but gene expression reveals a dangerous difference: could shopping cause disease?

This building alternately fries the public, blows them off their feet and cheats them out of promised public amenities. And did I mention it's bloated, top-heavy and just plain ugly.

The architect/ engineer says we have the tech now to live better electrically.

If a vertical farm fantasy is the best unbuilt project in the UK, then sustainable design is in worse trouble than I thought.

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.

The Autonomous Hotel Room from Aprilli Design Studio raises some interesting questions.

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

Parks in North American cities could really take a lesson from this one in Recife, Brazil.

Bravo to this Brazilian guy for showing how it's done.

How small is too small?

In photographer Yao Lu's "View of Waterfall with Rocks and Pines," two men stand underneath the spreading branches of a gnarled pine tree, aiming their cameras off in the distance, where

An international team of researchers has created a new type of cement that uses these discarded items that is just as strong, but produces far less emissions.

When you stop buying prepackaged foods, you have to start cooking them yourself. It's not that hard once you get into the swing of it.

You'll get a perfectly crispy, golden exterior.

The cauliflower parts that usually end up in the trash may be the tastiest part of all.

It's part of a statewide effort to crack down on plastic waste.

Andrew Scheer is a climate arsonist.

Provincial regulation would make stores' waste-reduction efforts easier to manage.

There are huge upfront carbon emissions from building new housing; a better approach is to be smarter about what we have.

Even a full day later, a one-hour shift in the clock is hard to adjust to.

Greta Thunberg, Margaret Atwood, Michael Mann, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Bill McKibben, George Monbiot and more make the case.

It's a curious reversal of the farm-to-table movement.

Some question if it is even possible.

Or are they just fooling themselves and being selfish?

They have always been controversial, and they may well be counterproductive.

With a carbon credit card, it doesn't have to be hard.

A lotta lentils.

A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical."

Yes, but not necessarily in the way you think.

The carbon footprint of concrete can be a whole lot better, if you make it out of carbon dioxide.

So much for my New Year's resolution to stop writing about concrete planters in the sky.

But for everyone else it is a big nothingburger.

Making cement puts out a lot of CO2. Making concrete needs a lot of sand. Both are big problems.

Contractors are having trouble meeting the new safety standard.

Access to reliably electricity is what defines civilization in the 21st century, but in many parts of the world, and for a shockingly large number of people, even basic access to electricity is rare, unstable, or nonexistent. This has to change.

There's plenty of "recognizing," "acknowledging," and "noting" going on in the final draft of the Rio+20 text. Lot's of UN-ese. And that's about it.

Can these 200 people save the world?

The student invention just won the James Dyson Award for its intelligent design.