A recycling center’s turbine could pave the way for industrial-scale wind power in New York City.

The SolarMill, a 1.2 kW combination wind and solar energy system, will be sold in the U.S. for about $3000.

Four sizes of micro-turbines, designed to be portable personal wind energy stations, are in the works from Janulus.

No turbine blades in sight.

The resin reduces the energy needed to manufacture turbine blades and allows them to be recycled.

Used clothing donations are more of a hindrance than a help, in the eyes of the East African Community. We need to listen to what they're saying.

The moral of the story is: Don't go out and try to shoot lions.

The People's Choice award went to photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, who took the photo in Cameroon.

There's nothing like watching the sun go down on a beach in a tiny African village.

Mountain gorillas have become the only wild apes whose population numbers are known to be improving.

He’s a fierce defender of his family and helped nurse two of his offspring back from leopard attacks. He likes to nap with his feet in the air, and he hums while he eats.

After breaking into a game reserve to hunt rhinos, not much was left of the three poachers.

Since both require the same habitat, scientists are worried how primates will survive the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations.

Even though there has been notable progress, at current poaching rates elephants are still in danger of becoming virtually extinct on the continent.

A young Toronto-based woman is working to build a school in the Kenyan village near where she grew up.

College students make waves for clean energy at IU, UK basketball games.

Student activism nationwide flies in the face of a recent study claiming young Americans don't care about the environment.

From campus gardens to intensive recycling, Sierra magazine's annual list gives a tip of the hat to the nation's most sustainable schools.

Sierra magazine released its 2012 Cool Schools list, and UC Davis took #1 - let's learn more about them.

This summer, students are spending 8 weeks conserving nature in hands-on environmental internships in NY and Philadelphia for The Nature Conservancy’s Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities initiative.

Investing in youth is an investment in a sustainable future

But the builders and the realtors are fighting sprinkler laws across the country.

It has become a familiar pattern. A natural disaster occurs and we can't help but wonder how it may have been influenced by climate change. Here's a look at how the Colorado rains and flood were connected to global warming.

If you love electric cars and you love rankings, this article is for you! The top 10 electric car states have been unveiled, and there are some surprises on the list.

Another phase of the wonderful Green Lane Project has just been announced, and PeopleForBikes has taken the opportunity to highlight biking and protected bike lane growth in the US through a new video.

Jake Wolf took this photo just outside of Grand Lake, Colorado.

What these cars are capable of will come as no surprise to EV fans, but winning the King of the Mountain title puts another feather in the EV cap

EPA to blame for the catastrophe on the Animas.

Ever wondered what it's like to live in a renovated van? Here is one company that rents DIY van conversions out.

Corporations have rights ... why not rivers?

A new study from Deloitte predicts what we have said before: e-bikes will eat cars.

We keep saying that this is the way we should go, but perhaps the technology here just wasn't ready.

Was it design, or was it our resistance to change? What made the NoMix a NoGo?

The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses.

It's becoming easier to do so as the rules change and the toilets get better.

If you gotta go, you should have a clean private environmentally friendly place to go.

Who says loos have to be boring and utilitarian?

At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area.

The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.

Dig out those old da Vinci drawings of winged flying machines, as he was really on to something!

This should take the wind out of the "all turbines are evil" crowd's sails.

When a bird charity installs a wind turbine, they're going to do it right.

The holidays are a time of joy, happiness, families and... waste? Estimates show that almost 25% of waste produced in the US comes from the six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years. But we can change that, starting now.

Once again, one has to parse the data to get the real story.

Rob Cotter used to build expensive sports cars. Now he makes vehicles that are much, much cooler.

As alternatives to Big Oil and Big Coal emerge, it would be a mistake for executives to rely on loyalty or love from the public.

Using digital fabrication, moss and clay, this designer's "moss voltaics" would use these hardy plants to transform sunlight into electricity.

For the first time, developing countries outpaced wealthier nations in green energy development.