Your kids are watching -- how you treat the Earth's resources will guide the way they choose to live. Here are a few ways to make sure their school experience t

Tired of all the small items in huge boxes, wasted cardboard and excessive packaging at your local big box retailer? Here's what you can do to fight back.

How to steer clear of the Styrofoam and plastic stuff.

Being a renter may limit your options when it comes to living green. But there are still plenty of ways to lighten your environmental footprint -- without takin

Chocolate-dipped strawberries are a luxurious, expensive treat, so save money by making yours at home.

Colony collapse disorder is claiming many of North America and Europe's bees. But there are simple things you can do to help keep them buzzing.

Concern about the safety of many wall coverings has led to a revival in milk-based paints.

Social entrepreneur harnesses the power of stories to help illiterate communities leverage their ingenuity to find solutions to local problems.

Cousteau announced a partnership with AdvisorShares Investments to leverage the might of Wall Street to finance solutions of global problems.

Entrepreneur Jonas Falk, 28, has grown a $20 million company, Organic Life, by serving great-tasting organic food at schools.

Kavita Shukla has created a way to keep many other fruits and vegetables fresh two to four times longer with an organic product.

Pierre Calleja sees big things in microalgae – microscopic, single-cell plants with the potential to clean the air.

SRI, the system of rice intensification, has taken agribusiness giants by surprise with its record-breaking harvests across the globe.

BrightFarms cuts out the middle man and grows local produce at the store.

Miguel Luna is using grassroots organizing to rehabilitate the river and the communities near it through his group, Urban Semillas.

How do they do it? Through lots of glass jars, obliterating clutter, and recycling only as a last resort. Bea Johnson shares her top 10 tips.

The social workers have assisted veterans, children and families.

Soft-spoken and unassuming, this speaker, teacher, and author might not seem like a rabble-rouser or revolutionary.

6 home-schooled siblings demonstrate the power of motivation. (And their four younger sisters and brother aren't too far behind.)

Viral videos and social media have catapulted the once-rejected Orabrush into a mainstream product — first for people and now for pets.

Vijay Brihmadesam, one of the minds behind Tava Indian Kitchen, has mastered the tasty and convenient fast-food market.

Engineering students tackle two problems with one clever project — how to transport water and purify it at the same time.

Each socially-conscious Jewish teenager receives $36,000 for further public service work or education.

How do these global cities stack up in being green?

Grad student Christopher Johnson hopes to save lives with a little help from some microscopic partners.

The mail subscription service combines high-tech analytics and personal stylists to send women clothes they'll love.

Media professional hopes to turn others on to farming with her new website.

Conservation photographer Morgan Heim talks about her work, and how being foolish can lead to brilliant things.

Father-daughter team turns a common race practice into a clever opportunity to help the less fortunate.

Cristina Mittermeier discusses the modern movement of conservation photography in an interview.

The nonprofit Gearing Up gives women in recovery a chance to get outside, build self-esteem and bond with one another.

The Pollination Project offers small grants to social-change startups — with big results.

A California couple helps veterans with PTSD and rescued wolves and wolfdogs forge lasting bonds that change lives.

Lush, lovely and totally invasive, running bamboo has been branded as public enemy number one in several towns in the Northeast.

Brown marmorated stink bugs are wreaking havoc — and just reeking — as they spread throughout the country.

The botanical monster-makers behind a new Kickstarter campaign aim to erect a towering hell-beast made from North America's most notorious invasive plant.

Officials in Australia quarantine imported versions of the pop singer Katy Perry's latest album due to its seed-paper packaging.

Unlike other roaches, this Asian cockroach — which has never been seen in the U.S. — can survive the cold and snow.

Invasive "crazy ants" have been displacing fire ants, and a curious defensive strategy may be behind the crazy ants' bold takeover.

The beetle has already wreaked havoc around the Pacific, and recent sightings in Hawaii could spell trouble for its iconic palm trees.

The invasive species has already wreaked havoc in the Great Lakes and other regions.

No more escargot? An invasive worm known to have an insatiable appetite for snails is invading Europe.

The bat-killing fungal infection known as white-nose syndrome has been found in two new U.S. states.

Cane toads have been introduced to many parts of the world with the intention of using them as natural pest control.

A study found that an invasive species of camel cricket from Asia is now far more common in American basements than the native variety.

Giant African snails have invaded the Galapagos, but two rescued dogs are sniffing them out and helping researchers fix the ecology of the islands.

White-nose syndrome is obliterating American bats, but scientists may have found a ray of hope: bacteria that live on bat wings.

All it took was one avian aficionado with a love of William Shakespeare to introduce this aggressive species to the United States.

By keeping out invasive cats, rats and other predators, a new fence on Kauai is helping a rare bird bounce back.

A once-'mild' virus found in Africa 70 years ago is now running wild. Here's everything you need to know.