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A few short weeks ago it came out the China had plans in the works to place 20 hydroelectric dams on the upper

A community effort in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains offers hope for this unique mammal.

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

The future of green building depends on what comes out of our soil.

Because a fringe candidate is a climate denier, it's now a political issue.

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.

And there are plenty of humans who would agree.

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, but it's not exactly something we should be celebrating. It's actually a wakeup call for humanity.

Concerned about the overpopulation of our planet and the effect it has on wildlife? Perhaps it's time to talk about the most effective form of male contraception.

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.

Move over, regular solar panels.

There's symbolism here. Let's hope there's substance too.

In anticipation of a new retrospective at the Whitney, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, " Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker, quoting Fuller about the need for innovation:

Allison Arieff reviews the Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. She writes "His brain was constantly consumed with the serious issues of his day —

The Buckminster Fuller Institute ran a competition to update the iconic map; here are some of the finalists

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day. Vegetarians do not.

Tomorrow, real men eat quiche (cheese pi).

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day.

It could also help us eradicate heritable diseases in dogs.

A Toronto city councillor is going to try.

Huge new study reveals that going vegan offers far greater benefits than quitting flying or driving an electric car.

The monthly vegetarian gathering will also host policy makers to discuss various aspects of climate change.

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land

How will invasive Asian carp enter the Great Lakes? Via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, maybe another flood? They almost made it via a semi-tractor trailer crossing the Ambassador Bridge from the U.S. to Canada. The

Flame retardants build up in the DNA of Great Lakes fish. Not cool.

It's been forty years since Nixon and Trudeau signed the original; it's time for an update.

This long, cold winter has created the most ice cover on the Great Lakes in 20 years—and with ice cover usually at its peak in mid-March, there's still time for records to be broken.

Well, at least the most iconic animal in the United States won't catch on fire too easily...

It led to a series of other agreements that protected and cleaned up the Great Lakes environment

The autonomous robot allows scientists to more safely study polar enviroments and also collects valuable information on ice conditions for climate research.

Lessons from Amundsen: travel fast and light with a small footprint.

It's time we stopped greenwashing plastic alternatives and realized they do more harm than good.

A scientific assessment has confirmed enormous amounts of waste and definite harm to wildlife.

Some pretty smart designers, builders and consultants have a pretty good idea for a sensible building standard.

Though only powering 75-100 homes at launch, the TidGen Cobscook Bay project, in Eastport, Maine, is slated to expand to ten times its initial size.

In the US, Arbor Day is April 27, 2007. When this writer was a child, our grade school class planted trees on Arbor Day, told that when we grew up that "our" trees might well still be there, beholden to our childhood actions. We even had an

Doubletree Hotels with the Arbor Day Foundation kicked

The Triumph Elm is being set up on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in honor of Arbor Day this Friday (and you thought the fun ended with Earth Day!). The tree is part of a project by the Morton Arboretum to enlighten

Instead of buying some new "green" products for Earth Day, start a legacy for your community by planting trees for Arbor Day.

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey may survive because of work by communities, NGOs and the Myanmar and Chinese governments.

This rebellious, edgy-looking turtle is now unfortunately facing extinction, and conservationists are fighting to save it.

Most people think there are around 100 – most people are way off.

Ways to spend the day for those who'd like to skip the whole 'bloodsport of mass consumerism' thing.

The first affordable microwave changed the way we cooked- for a while, anyway

This compact all-in-one cooking kit is looking to overhaul the traditional kitchen for today's hectic schedules and non-traditional living situations.

Florida's waterways are rapidly become gross slimy things.

Surprisingly strong and made with seaweed and a bit of paper, this collection of modern furniture and lighting makes use of an abundant resource.

To carbon neutralize the Super Bowl, the NFL plants mangroves in Florida

Image credit: pawpaw67, used under Creative Commons license. Malaysian palm oil producers may be committing to green(er) practices, but that's unlikely to appease George Monbiot. He has long been a critic of biofuels for vehicles, but he is absolutely