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Some nice symbolism here... WWF-Nepal reports that it has just completed its target for 2011 of planted 108,000 trees in the Sacred Garden of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born roughly 2,500 years ago. Over the next ten years the

Some timely examples of the intersection of Islam and environmental stewardship, both coming via the good folks over at Green Prophet: 1) Any new mosque built in Qatar must be eco-friendly, and 2) a new green guide to

photo: Rebecca Wilson/CC BY Editors note: The following guest post is by Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati an American-born renunciate at Parmarth Niketan ashram in Rishikesh, India (full bio below). While this post may be a bit broader than other items in the

An interesting step towards eco-friendly spiritual travel: The Alliance of Regions and Conservation, working with WWF, is about to launch the Green Pilgrimage Network. The program, to formally kick off at an event in

Globally, religious groups own 5-10% of the world's forests and influence much more.

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

Two hundred evangelical scientists recently wrote a letter to Congress making the religious case for passing climate change legislation.

Fifth Third Bank shows us just how easy it is becoming for corporations to source all of their electricity from renewables.

The electricity grid can handle a ban, ten years earlier than law makers are aiming for.

Perhaps it is time to stuff this duck analogy.

This will mark a significant scaling of electrified transportation—including trucks and buses too.

In a compromise with environmentalists, the energy giant is committing some significant resources to clean tech.

It's a moveable feast of cheaper, cooler, greener electricity for building blockchains.

SMUD demonstrate that all-electric living is actually cheaper than gas.

Could it be that more efficient lighting means less coal being dug to power it?

It turns out leaving the EU is quite hard. Who knew?

And why not?

It's not just renewables that are driving down emissions.

More on why the 626 environmental groups demanding action on climate change shouldn't be doctrinaire.

The message "Electrify Everything!" is beginning to spread.

Ian Urbina reports at The New York Times on the negative side effects the tech industries shift to flat screen technology has had on the market for recycling old television and computer monitor glass

A new report card from the Electronics TakeBack Coaltion shows how each retailer stacks up when it comes to recycling the merchandise they sell us.

Kodjo Afate Gnikou is a 33 years old inventor from Togo, in West Africa. Using mostly e-waste that he found in a scrap yard, he built a functioning 3D printer that he calls W.AFATE.

The smartphone market isn't slowing down any time soon, but many people are returning to simpler, older phone models for a host of reasons.

Starting in 2015, it will be illegal to leave computers and other electronic for curb-side pickup, as part of an effort to fight e-waste.

The machines are popping up at grocery stores in Norway.

If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work.

And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.

Big business may be coming to the climate party late. But it is making its presence known.

Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have joined together to support Obama's Clean Power Plan as it faces legal opposition.

The app lets kids and adults alike explore, measure and test the world around them.

Want to know if you can go solar? Now there's a good chance you can easily find out.

It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen?

Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.

Unfortunately, people like the slogans a bit too much.

The Canadian province is overhauling its recycling program, which would include holding producers accountable for their wasteful packaging designs.

With disinfecting and sanitizing on everyone's mind, good old-fashioned bar soap has never been more necessary. It's still possible to go plastic-free, too. These are the best bar soaps for every body part.

What's more fun than riding with 25,000 people through car-free streets on a beautiful day (and night)?

This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.

One of the biggest challenges of making cities more bike friendly is that most of the road space is already "used up." Adding bike lanes means removing something. That's when a bit of perspective comes in handy.

It's up to you to decide if you want to take the shortest route, the cleanest one, or the quietest one.

A partnership between Moisson Montreal and the largest grocery chains in the province will continue to salvage hundreds of tons of food that would otherwise be discarded.

And a big part of the pitch is sustainability and comfort.

A new study shows that in fact, if you build them, people use them and drive less.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

All work and no play? Here's a work space with some playful humor built in.

Part art, part meditative process, these works are created with plant material harvested from the artist's urban garden.

Well, that happened fast.