Dr. Anderson at first couldn't figure out why he was seeing patient after patient with MRSA in a small Indiana town. And then he began to wonder about...
treehugger.com, Plantr | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green
What a cool idea -- stopping cell phones from being recycled by reusing them. But the coolest part is what Plantr wants to use them for: What if the...
Chelsea Green | R.J. Ruppenthal | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green
Strawberries are one of the most rewarding food crops to grow in a small home garden. Homegrown berries taste far better than the store-bought ones an...
gourmet.com | Photograph by | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green
What a difference a few months make. Advocates of sustainable agriculture are now ecstatic about President Obama's decision to appoint Kathleen Merrig...
Craig McCord | Posted 03.28.2009 | Living
On Wednesday, November 26, 2008, over eight hundred clients of the Food Bank were fed a hot, delicious Thanksgiving banquet.
Sarah Newman | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green
Tear up your front lawn and plant a garden. In the long-term, it will be a lot cheaper than shopping at the supermarket. And you can share your harvest with your community.
Planet Green | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
Spring is near and you might be itching to get your garden started. But there is still danger of frosts and it's better to start seedlings indoors. Li...
AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green
RENO, Nev. — Conservationists argue in a new report that U.S. taxpayers should stop subsidizing a $100 million program that kills more than 1 mi...
GlobalPost | David Green | Posted 03.20.2009 | World
GONGYI, China -- The flowers that welcome visitors to the town of Gongyi in China's Henan province have seen better days. The stems that spell out t...
Wall Street Journal | LAUREN ETTER | Posted 03.15.2009 | Business
A chicken housing crisis has cropped up in the U.S., and it's producing some of the same bleak results as the human one -- foreclosures, lawsuits and ...
Los Angeles Times | Jim Tankersley | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green
Reporting from Washington -- California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Am...
Susan Cosier | Posted 03.04.2009 | World
For centuries farmers have been roasting, fermenting and distilling the agave plant's roasted heart to brew what many consider to be the national drink of Mexico: tequila.
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — A chemical that affects people's moods also can transform easygoing desert locusts into terrifying swarms that ravage the countrysi...
Grist.org | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green
Organic cotton is expensive but clearly a good fabric to buy, especially in comparison with conventional cotton. The statistics on pesticides in conve...
Jenna Woginrich | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
What the... something white, curly, and shiny was underneath my goose, Saro. It was a spiral of glass? Then I saw it. She was laying on a compact fluorescent light bulb.
Bridget Mason and Kayomi Wada | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living
Judging by the almost 80 volunteers who came out to build a garden in Downtown Tacoma, I would have to say there are a lot of Americans out there just waiting for an opportunity to give back!
AP | AMY LORENTZEN | Posted 02.20.2009 | Green
DES MOINES, Iowa — The National Pork Producers Council said Monday it is suing to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency's requirement th...
AP | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
FRESNO, Calif. — Six environmental groups have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday over a new rule exempting dairies and othe...
Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
Short of tilling your own backyard, joining a Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme is perhaps the most effective way you can green your eating...
Jenna Woginrich | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green
It feels good to get your fingernails dirty, even on the 34th floor, and you can finally start walking the walk so many of us have been talking.
Reuters | Jeremy Smith | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green
European Parliament negotiators have struck a political deal with EU countries about revising pesticide authorization rules that would reduce the numb...
Center for American Progress | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green
Keeping food and yard waste out of the trash through composting at home is easier than you might think. Take our quiz to help you sort through your tr...
Isabel Cowles | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green
Sustainability is partly about the environment, and wholly about the way we choose to live. It is a new way of referring to a very old thing: a trendy...
New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green
The cows and pigs dotting these flat green plains in the southern Netherlands create a bucolic landscape. But looked at through the lens of greenhouse...
Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 01.01.2009 | Green
You don't need to be a Michael Pollan devotee to appreciate how thoroughly dysfunctional our agricultural policy is.
New York Times | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green