A Canadian writer living in the U.S. has lived with both. She clears the air about "death panels" and other myths.

Three markets were chosen as America's favorites. Was your favorite market at the top?

Tristram Stuart's book "Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal" argues that pigs can help alleviate world hunger by eating the scraps of wealthier countries,

A webinar with last year’s winners will kick off this year’s contest.

Opening day at the Collingswood Farmers Market in New Jersey is a huge success.

The focus is put on the small amount of local food among the non-local.

New local foods website brings all of Philadelphia’s many choices together.

Find out if your favorite farmers market won in American Farmland Trust’s annual contest.

The results are in for American Farmland Trust’s 2011 America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest. Did your favorite market win?

Public campaigns designed to boost consumer interest in shopping at small and independent businesses appear to be paying off.

A new bill seeks to make fresh, healthy food more accessible to consumers and support the farmers who grow it.

It's harder to eat local as the days get shorter, but it's possible. Here's how.

Soaring prices have made walnuts, almonds and other nuts a tempting target.

There are dozens of reasons to go the farmers market, but opening day, these five are particularly important.

It's the perfect time to stimulate your local economy during the USDA's National Farmers Week.

The White House, federal government selects communities to participate in the Local Food, Local Places initiative.

Learn about the importance of the city that marks a dividing line in the Mississippi River.

Alexandra Cousteau ventures out of sight, deep into the cool world of New Mammoth Cave in Tennessee.

Video: What happens when the fruits and veggies at your local grocery store go bad?

Video: Get eco-tips from Tia and Wilmer. Get eco-tips from Tia Carrere and Wilmer Valderrama. (Video by Gerri Miller)

Learn about the characters in Ted Turner's classic environmental animated series, Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

These creative Halloween ideas don't require carving and can be used over and over again.

Whip up some cool Halloween costume ideas, starting with simple cardboard.

Who know you could build a functional car or virtual reality goggles from cardboard?

Don't have a green thumb? These painted rocks will solve that problem.

In the latest installment of the Faces of the Recovery Act video series, the U.S. Department of Energy showcases 1366 Technologies.

Two separate projects funded by the Department of Energy are offering free home chargers. The only drawback? You have to pay for the electric vehicle.

Although refrigerators continue to grow in size and become more tricked out, new standards will also require them to be drastically more energy efficient.

The U.S. Department of Energy is providing a $50 million loan to Vehicle Production Group for the creation of an eco-friendly accessible car.

Sixteen teams from colleges across the country spent three years building hybrids, plug-in hybrids and even hydrogen cars. This week in Washington, they met in

The U.S. energy secretary spent five hours Thursday rejecting accusations that politics influenced a 2009 loan to the California solar company.

The Department of Energy steps into pumpkin-carving territory with several energy-themed stencils for jack-o'-lanterns. You can choose from CFL bulb, solar arra

Some of the nation's most recognized brands are joining the Department of Energy's Workplace Charging Challenge.

The third time's a charm for the resiliency-minded contender from New Jersey.

Meteorologists predict a mostly normal 2019 hurricane season, but that doesn't mean there's no danger.

Giving human names to hurricanes may seem odd, but it's part of a major shift in our relationship with tropical cyclones over the past 60 years.

6-year-old Jermaine Bell cashes in his Disney World Fund to buy hot dogs and water for hurricane evacuees.

The wild horses of the Outer Banks in North Carolina have been riding out storms for centuries.

When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas, this rescuer opened her home to nearly 100 dogs.

Growing food isn't about green-thumbing our nose at Mother Nature; it's about knowing her well enough to enlist her assistance.

Ever wondered what different types of caterpillars look like before they transform into butterflies? Here are 10 instagram-worthy before-and-after photos

Suet is a high-calorie source of easily digestible food for birds, and making it couldn't be easier.

Newman’s Own gives all of its profits to charity, like the one that helps Kadin Hoven and his family escape the difficulties of chronic illness.

There's a poaching ring focused on some succulents in the genus Dudleya, which can fetch millions on the black market in East Asia.

Before you check the medicine cabinet, you might want to look in your backyard for a healing plant.

Part of the issue is succulent habitat destruction, but the bigger problem is poaching by highly organized global smuggling rings.

Ecological landscape designer Jessi Bloom offers guidance in designing a yard that is healing for spirit and nature and creating sacred, meditative space.

New findings show manure burns cleaner than traditional fuels, more intense hurricanes are predicted, a housing trend could cut carbon emissions and more.

The FDA has now confirmed that the disgusting sludge a man poured from a freshly opened Pepsi can was a dead frog or toad.

Video: A study conducted by Consumer Reports found BPA in almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested -- from juice to chicken soup and tuna fish -- raising co