U.S. hospitals waste thousands of tons of medical supplies every day. DOC2DOCK collects and redistributes these supplies to match the specific needs of hospitals in the developing world.

Breadfruit trees planted by Trees That Feed Foundation are creating food systems and jobs in Jamaica.

How one crowdfunded organization is using earth building techniques to build impressive and durable structures for Haiti.

The peripatetic international designer explains it all in Core77

Three years after a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, health care workers are still finding it difficult to get medical supplies, but an aid group is putting 3D printing to work to make some of the needed items.

Cornell students and Toronto company figure out how to upcycle old clothes on an industrial scale.

The update to the "Red List" illustrates the worldwide crises facing many species around the globe in the face of habitat loss and degradation.

This company proves that plastic waste can be a valuable resource.

While global warming naysayers seem content to continue flouting the overwhelming scientific consensus in favor of this anthropogenic phenomenon, they seem to have gotten one point largely right: hurricanes didn't suddenly begin massing over the past

Once one of the great mysteries of the natural world, the bluefin tuna's migration pattern has finally been elucidated by the workings of an international team of scientists as part of the global 10-year Census of Marine Life. To reach their

Slugs as we know them aren't the most colorful land-based creatures, but the shell-less mollusk known as nudibranchs (meaning "naked gills"), or sea slugs, are the complete opposite: The more than 3,000 different members

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The palm oil situation is bad, but some people argue that it would be worse if replaced by other vegetable oils.

The reports are in from last week's "Good Jobs, Green Jobs" conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., and attendees are saying it was a great success. More than 1,100 people attended the Blue Green Alliance conference. People networked, listened to speakers and

You a runner? Or an exercise-oholic? And you want your workouts to reflect your green lifestyle? Well, the race is ON or at least for me and a few friends to find the best performing green running equipment.

Ambitious thieves spend a month torching apart a Pennsylvania bridge

How can a city destroy an edible garden on private property without legal permission? We also have the viral party-gone-wrong prank on Shell, the 12 most toxic fruits and vegetables, and more.

We have to decarbonize, not just because of carbon dioxide and climate change in the longer term, but because it is killing us directly right now.

Technological advancements, combined with an escalating climate crisis, suggest its time to revisit some once fanciful ideas.

It's a number that's been thrown around a lot recently. There's a danger it will be misunderstood.

He's not exactly treating it like a crisis. But at least he's doing something...

Using officially documented research and color-it-yourself data visualizations, this project aims to convey climate change data in an engaging way.

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost

If one geoengineering plan doesn't work, maybe two or three combined will

The successful launch of Sentinel-5P means scientists will soon have access to the most accurate monitoring yet of pollution and climate change related gases in earth's atmosphere

More importantly, it reminds scientists not to lose sight of the importance of human behavior in the search for answers about the physical processes of climate change

The show gets a lot right about climate change, Al Gore and Manbearpig, but it misses something major about human nature.

Governments aren't paying attention to scientific research, but maybe crime will get people's attention.

You can't help but notice the street kids in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Some of them, darting through the heavy traffic of tuk-tuks and motos on their hunt for crisp dollar bills, are so young they have yet to learn to talk. Other than scooping them off

We love products that support or revive traditional crafts. Check out, for ex ample, the work of Kallari, fair trade suppliers of traditional Amazonian baskets, which we reported on here. Now we've come across another cool basket supplier, this time

The contents of your bag reveal more about you than you might think, but what about your choice of bag itself? District Cotton, a New York City-based company dedicated to fashion with a conscience, has a couple of sturdy options that are as socially

Previously unknown species in a relatively undisturbed bioregion of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia have been uncovered by a recent study — 24 in total, including a so-called "corpse

Karaoke video explaining not to drink water from wells painted red as they contain high levels of arsenic (YouTube via RDI-Cambodia) For this writer, karaoke has long been thought as an activity to be endured rather than enjoyed (and I am sure I am not

For the first time, conservationists from WWF are putting dogs' superb sense of smell on the trail of tigers in Cambodia. Coming from the University of Washington Conservation Canines program, the dogs are trained to sniff out

In 2007, villagers captured a mysterious young woman in a remote region of Cambodia who, by all accounts, was completely isolated from human society, a feral child living in the forests. News of her discovery

Metals from Cambodia's mines, left buried since its civil war, are recycled into elegant jewelry, made by locally trained and fairly paid artisans.

Fast fashion hurts real people, as this online series challenges three unsuspecting youngsters to go meet and work with the people who make their clothes.

Nomi Network helps to provide training and jobs to women in India and Cambodia.

They may sound progressively eco-friendly, but a new Greenpeace report explains why they're not.

It's not enough to not make things worse. Our buildings and our actions have to make things better.

Dan Rockhill and his students keep pushing the building envelope.

Leed is for wimps; the Living Building Challenge really pushes the building envelope.

"This is our last chance to avert a climate disaster. We must act now."

Unless, of course, TINA gets in the way.

If 10 percent of Americans adopted these 7 changes, we could cut total domestic emissions by 8 percent in 6 years.

"No justification can be possible for this nonsense."

One little trip can blow you right out of the water.

This month's issue of Wallpaper* magazine is dominated by the 2007 Design Directory, their hand-picked favorite architects and designers from the past year. Always the epitome of cool, the mag's slick picks

The DIE Moto, the diesel-engined motorbike which we have covered before, has broken the land speed record for a diesel motorbike, with a speed of 130mph.

Despite the fact that Venice, CA seems to be the epicenter of SoCal's green lifestyle movement, the 24th annual Abbott Kinney Festival that took over the city's main drag on Sunday, September 28th was far from eco-friendly. After claiming last year