It's the first conference of the North American Passive House Network and it sounds like it was a lot of fun.

Despite needing to pay a hefty tuition bill this fall, Hannah Rousey refused to take money from Poland Spring Bottling Co., a subsidiary of Nestlé.

It's as if Chris Knight left for a weekend camping trip, but didn't come home for a quarter-century.

Recently we pointed out the benefits of planting a tree with a child, and it seems like the folks at Doubletree Hotels are taking us up on the concept in a big way But it's great to see that they've actually been teaming up with the National Arbor

Like many of our readers, we suspect this dude would be less than impressed with the recycled squirrel decanter we featured a while back. No matter, he’s too busy worrying about the lack of trees to be too concerned by human beings and their tacky

Is it possible to keep Kosher and still keep a vegan diet?

Doubletree Hotels with the Arbor Day Foundation kicked

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

What better way to celebrate National Penguin Awareness Day than by caving to the cute factor with videos of bitty penguins?

The howl of magnificent Zephyr at NY's Wolf Conservation Center gets Mother Nature's attention.

London Fashion Week was disrupted by protesters who want the industry to declare a climate emergency.

New trucks will all have much greater visibility for the drivers, saving lives of people who walk and cycle.

Lessons from the kitchens at Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation in Marseille.

Concerned about Asian carp? Meet the invasive cousins, you might say, of the monster fish. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a white paper on 40 high-risk species to watch out for,

This fascinating installation where algae, bioluminescent bacteria, humans and smartphones interact may chart where a new generation of urban "cyber-gardeners" may go.

An interesting design concept that envisions humans becoming semi-photosynthetic thanks to a symbiotic relationship with algae.

The company that makes "shoes for people who don't want to wear them" is introducing a new model of adventure shoe constructed with EVA foam made from algae biomass.

Our photo of the day reminds us of the importance of sea otters.

Take one of the world's most beautiful places, add dappled sunlight, and voila.

These are for those nights when cooking feels impossible, but has to be done...

Fresh and seasonal, these recipes offer maximum flavor for minimal effort.

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

We mentioned Ecotricity’s new 'Merchant Wind Power' project at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol, UK earlier this year, but we couldn’t help posting a picture of the now completed initiative. Located in the ultra-industrialized port, surrounded by storage

Hailed by Rob Hopkins as "possibly the biggest peak oil/climate change/Transition event to take place in the UK", Bristol's Big Event looks set to be a huge collective exploration of the future for this city of 400,000 residents as fossil fuels

The UK-based renewable energy company Ecotricity recently won an award from the renewable energy agency for South West England for its development of three giant wind turbines at the industrial Avonmouth Docks site on the outskirts of Bristol (which we

We like Ecotricity, the UK-based green energy company that is busy planning and erecting urban wind turbines across the country. We’ve written about their partnership with Popeye, we’ve brought news of their collaborations with Lotus and Ben and

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

Not long ago, my parents installed a sizable solar array on their home in England. Now my brother has just emailed with photos of his own installation. What's going on? Besides providing more evidence that solar feed-in

The British city of Bristol hopes to promote local business with their own high-security scrip featuring local designs

This looks like lungs, sort of, but it's really made out of meadow flowers.

This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about...well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green athletes, Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. Still

I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are

St. Augustine said "Solvitur Ambulando": It is solved by walking. So does Tom Vanderbilt in this great series in Slate.

Planner Paul Knight shows how to do the math and figure out where to go for maximum candy

Bogobrush is socially-minded, biodegradable toothbrush that gives back to the community.

One might think that promoting walking as an alternative to driving might be good for cities clogged with cars full of overweight people.

Pandas, which are one of the better known endangered species out there, just aren't very good at breeding, making their survival more problematic than if, say, they had cubs by the bucketload every year.

Just when I thought it would be fine to cook with canned tomato sauce - bis-Phenol A recently having been granted toxicology probation - emerges the possibility that BPA can make you obese. Ohhh wait - not

It is one thing to ban something, it is another thing to have something to replace it with at hand. We don't.

It seems that the only people who benefit from this rule change are the members of the American Chemistry Council who make BPA.

Studies of humans, mice, monkeys, and sheep all point to the same scary conclusion -- that BPA wreaks havoc on the female reproductive system.

A new report shines the light on a dirty little 'secret' of canned goods, which has little to do with the food itself, and everything to do with the coating in the can.

Deserts are hot, dry, and unforgiving -- which makes them difficult environments for most creatures to survive in. But desert residents who have adapted to the temperatures -- by learning to survive without water, developing their own cooling systems, and

Australia has a feral camel problem. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project estimates that 1 million of rogue dromedaries roam outback Australia, annually causing over $14 million AUD worth of damage to infrastructure and

Cooling a data center in one of the hottest parts of the USA can be done by using hot water, as eBay's Phoenix facility finds.

A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.

It took me hours, but I finally found this guy.

Check out these photos of a surprise 10-mile lake that popped up in Death Valley, California.

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.

So many flavors and colors of gas these days. They are all problematic.