"Every day is Earth Day." Author Unknown "The greatest wealth is health." Virgil I find Humanity's relationship with mother earth similar to the ...
Exactly 41 years ago today, the inaugural Earth Day was celebrated with 20 million participants in the United States. Today, April 22, 2011, Earth Day...
The world's most polluted places in the world might come as a surprise to some. No sprawling, globally-renowned metropolis like Los Angeles or London ...
We may be incredibly pessimistic about the direction our country is headed at the moment, but so were many residents back in the last days of Manifest...
It's Earth Day's 41st birthday, and Google is celebrating the occasion with a colorful animated doodle. Running your mouse over the illustration's pla...
It's Earth Day, and in order to celebrate, we asked you what you'd be reading, or recommend reading, to recognize the day. We got a wide range of ...
The new book, 100 Places to Go Before They Disappear, will appear on bookshelves on May 1st. It's a compelling title: a list of 100 places around the ...
As we celebrate Earth Day, we would be wise to focus on the role of women as environmental leaders. Investing in women will be critical to addressing the myriad environmental challenges our world faces.
On this Earth Day we should recognize that energy demand and population growth go hand in hand. If the U.S. is serious about reducing its energy needs, supporting family planning must be part of the strategy.
It's Earth Day, how cool is that? Plenty cool, if you do it right. Good thing, too. It's been a year since the Gulf oil spill, a month since the...
Earth Day 2011 is April 22, and in addition to spending time outdoors, spreading awareness and saving the environment, there's no better way to celebr...
While every day should be Earth Day, only one day of the year has been designated as such. Thus, let's take this opportunity to participate in activit...
It's not just our health that suffers from our cultural obsession with lawn chemicals; our environment suffers too. The Chesapeake Bay suffers catastrophic "dead zones" resulting from the excessive nutrients running off suburban lawns.
Big Oil and its proxies hate alternative energy and energy efficiency. Do you think they'd be kicking and screaming to stop progress if they didn't see a threat to their bottom line?
For Earth Day, we teamed up with Jonathan Jarvis and Kristen Bell to create a simple film on how water changes everything for people in need. Help us make this Earth Day all about water.
It's hard to feel good about a party when you think about the potential cost to the environment. Here are some of the things you can do right now to have a clear conscience and help nourish the planet.
What's it going to take for us to awaken from our complacency? Now is precisely the time to leverage our economic and technological connections to save our natural resources and jumpstart the green economy.
Earth Day 2011 will be observed April 22 in over 175 countries around the world. Individuals and communities will unite in service projects, conservat...
Matt and Kelly Grocoff's was -$68.44 -- and yes, that's a minus sign before the dollar sign. Their home -- America's oldest net-zero energy restoration -- produces more energy than it consumes.
We recognize that sustainability means different things to different people, so we hope that these different manifestations will be appreciated.
People are often surprised when I tell them that my faith, Islam, has an ecological imperative. In fact, I believe that all faiths have, at their very core, this same imperative.
We are a species not highly evolved enough to be ready for Earth Day, let alone Mother Earth day. But there is some tantalizing and hopeful evidence that we're beginning to find our way.
Good Friday is Earth Day, an especially opportune time to see and feel and repent of creation's pain -- which is ours.
At the end of the hottest decade on record, we are surrounded by unprecedented droughts, floods, crop losses and technological accidents. Has western enlightenment run its course?
Sometimes with green, what's old is new. Case in point: cooking with hay. No, it's nothing you can rush to your kitchen and do on a whim, but some o...
