The chemical is used in rockets and munitions. Priorities!

Reducing meat consumption is one of the best ways to help the environment. A new book offers many ideas for how to make it happen.

It's a veggie burger that actually bleeds. But who's the target audience?

"Has the global food system been irrevocably hijacked?" One filmmaker asks and begins to answer this frightening question.

The fight to "follow the money" heats up in as Washington prepares to vote on GMO labeling.

Steven M. Johnson beat the GrubHub by 25 years.

The historical character of this old Saigon building was preserved with a fresh and respectful makeover.

Post-war, Lyons Tea Shops could't redecorate, so they commissioned some great paintings instead.

What the Club Sandwich Generation looks like in Tokyo, where it is unusual to renovate instead of starting from scratch.

These delicately formed hand-crank and motor-activated art installations blossom and grow perpetually.

From Almada, Portugal, where residents will be able to swap recyclable materials for free rides on

London's international embassies are showing off their countries' design as part of the London Design Festival.

Standard washing machines use a lot of water to get rid of a small amount of dirt. One startup is aiming to close that loop by reusing the wastewater.

Soon American workers can get more health-giving exposure to x-rays and radiation and help the economy boom!

Watch a remarkable clip of Heidi the octopus as she sleeps and dreams – from the new PBS series, Octopus: Making Contact.

The name may give you visions of dogs mellowed out, but the Grateful Dog wants to make sure your dog is both happy and healthy throughout their entire stay. You can leave your dog for the day or the week, knowing that

The fire department demands trees and on-street parking be removed so that they can have 20' clear speedways

Our photo of the day comes from Florida's John D MacArthur Beach State Park.

Activists deliver a "No Tar Sands!" message to Sustainable Brands corporate conference via kayak flotilla

Tourists and residents in New England used to receive a spectacular display of color on the second October of every year. However, in recent years, the show has been a bit duller and a bit later than usual. The culprit? What else - area temperatures

The HELIOtube is a radical departure from conventional CSP technology, as it is based around tubes of inflatable plastic film.

Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X.

While the world chases solar generating windows, we see how to do solar generating walls.

The teen has been building the DIY microwave, hoping to solve many cooking problems with one device.

Because of course you're thinking about water conservation in your yard in the middle of winter.

It is estimated that around 100 elephants are being killed each day by poachers to meet the growing demand for ivory in Asia.

Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing...

News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.

Cepezed Architects design a shelter that is elegant and self-sufficient.

The man who brought us the Rap Guide to Evolution is back to entertain, educate, and inspire us with a thought-provoking album that captures the spirit of conservation.

Formidable Vegetable Sound System strikes again, this time with their 'ecological electroswing' celebration of soil.

While the sun may be stealing the show, the solar eclipse would be nothing without Earth's own heavenly satellite.

This classic design is 80 years young and some famous designers pay hommage.

The wheels on the desk go round and round.

Analysis bridges differences between various climate change models to predict North American climate change with high certainty. Will skeptics finally be convinced?

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

The official naming organization has approved the names to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

Using the flow of water inside the pipes to power the water network's own monitoring devices could eliminate the need for batteries in those systems.

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

Take one Estream and add moving water for clean, quiet, offgrid energy.

The war on coal, it seems, may be ongoing, no matter who's in charge in Washington.

Several years ago, this established cooperative in Honduras decided to pursue Rainforest Alliance certification for its palm oil. Find out what it looks like today.

Northern Arizona University student from a range of departments built the charging station piece-by-piece to educate fellow students on the energy used by their gadgets.

The removable insole that's now on Kickstarter can fit into almost any kind of shoe.

Just keeping your phone in your car's console during a drive could charge the battery with this novel tiny generator.

We often write about technologies that harness energy from your steps. Here's how you can make your own piezoelectric sneakers at home.

In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent.

Nestle and Tesco are the latest members of a worldwide movement against abandoned fishing nets.