The potent allure or either money or ideology, or both, leads a lot of people to devote their lives to either impeding environmental progress, or enabling envir

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 offers a 50-cent-per-gallon tax credit for entrepreneurs who mix biomass or ethanol with conventionally taxed fossil fuels.

Every once in a while, humanity manages to do something so sublimely awful that all we can do is laugh. Next month, we’ll mark the 40th anniversary of one of

Even if you take the energy and water it takes to build a dishwasher into account, it still beats washing by hand.

These gardens epitomize a balance between beauty and conservation, promoting smart water practices and boosting honeybee populations in the area.

More than half of the world's largest aquifers are being depleted, according to satellite system data.

Sure, it's backed by Apple's Tim Cook. But would you spend $300 on a shower apparatus?

Bel Air: Champagne wishes and $90,000 water bill dreams.

These dams, like the Hoover, the Diablo, the Shasta and the Grand Coulee, have helped to shape America.

With Italy facing severe drought conditions, the Vatican has turned off its iconic fountains for the first time in living memory to help save water.

In Arkansas, attention to thousands of miles of unpaved roads has helped clean up streams, ease the threat to endangered species and benefited everyone.

Four severe droughts in 20 years have left many residents of the Horn of Africa on the edge of survival.

It all depends on the upcoming rainy season and residents maintaining water conservation restrictions.

A perplexing amount of the planet's water slips deep into Earth's interior at some tectonic boundaries, a new study has found. But where does it go?

In a new world of digital fabrication, computer-driven tools of all kinds will change the way we make things.

The search giant has trained neural networks to interpret photos, but they can also be coaxed to create monsters.

A handy new tool can transform your pictures into colorful mosaics of emoji.

The breakthrough will allow for stunning time lapses that reveal the behavior of electrons.

Paper can be reprinted up to 80 times, greatly reducing the waste associated with inkjet printing.

Using tiny eyewear, researchers tricked the insects into revealing secrets that could lead to simpler visual processing in robots.

The World1 computer program at MIT considered a range of factors and predicted the world might collapse in 2040. So far, it has been right.

The business closed in 2013, but ‘zombie stores’ kept the concept alive.

Guest blogger Greg Wendt offers a recap of the sold-out Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco.

A quiet deal between two of the world’s leading energy technology clusters, puts Copenhagen at the center of the expanding cleantech universe. Highlights from

Can drinking coffee reduce your carbon footprint? Tiny Footprint Coffee claims it roasts the world's first carbon-negative coffee.

May 14, 2011, is Stamp Out Hunger Day and World Fair Trade Day. It's one of those occasions when you can do some good for other people while you're still in you

MNN's lifestyle blogger taste tests organic vegan chocolates infused with flower essences that are said to lift moods and spirits.

The Blissmobox is a monthly subscription that delivers a cornucopia of organic and Fair Trade goodies right to your door.

Chocoholics (and cacao growers) rejoice! A type of cocoa once believed extinct has been found! Criollo cocoa has much lower yields and is less disease-resistant

Forthcoming documentary follows movement to link poor growers with roasters and consumers.

October is Fair Trade month! I am celebrating with the following products.

The daughter and granddaughter of Nelson Mandela lead the Mandela family in sustainable wine making.

De Bos Rosé is handpicked, fair trade accredited and made from 47 different varietals of grapes.

This informative chart from Green America rates the candy companies on their commitment to avoiding child labor.

Studying odd couple animal friendships can help researchers learn what goes into normal human relationships.

It's been 5 years since the West Virginia northern flying squirrel came off the Endangered Species List, and the recovery rate is encouraging.

City Food Tours has a delicious new walking tour dedicated to showcasing local foods.

From people to gadgets to gardens to food, here’s what I liked best in 2010.

Virtualization makes cloud computing possible, productive and profitable. Many businesses large and small think it can do the same thing for work by creating a

The 300-foot-long (92.2-meter-long) Viking Lady is set to get a battery pack, which will turn the supply vessel into a hybrid ship with technology similar to th

The company removes 39 products from the green certification program.

The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse demonstrates the vast potential for renewable energy after successfully setting the distance record for solar aviation.

Greening the urban environment is important. Sticking a roof garden on a moving bus is an odd way to do it.

The agency hopes that public access to the information will encourage collaboration and innovation across the computer science community.

Design and architecture professionals John Riordan and Kristen Becker have compiled 25 remarkable, sustainable workspaces in their book The Good Office: Green D

What a four-day school week in Colorado means for the families that rely on school for childcare.

Young Scottish brothers are watching to see where their little ship 'Adventure' will end up.

Ahimsa House brings healing to survivors of domestic violence, by giving both humans and animals a safe place to start over.

A simple parenting technique helps Inuit children learn to control anger at an early age.

From fly fishing to deep sea fishing to surf fishing and more, here are different styles of fishing from around the world.