Photo by adactio: "A Pacific oyster from Whitstable about to consumed on Brighton seafront." Oysters worldwide have been faring badly. From pollution levels in filthy bays to now a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the populations of the popu...

Photo by Suthep Kritsanavarin A hydropower dam project planned for the lower Mekong River is getting greater attention from conservationists as it nears the final stages of an approval process. The project would cut off the migration route for the...

Here we go again... a pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy Partners has leaked 800,000-840,000 gallons of oil into a creek flowing into the Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek, Michigan. On a more positive note, the Zephyr solar plane finally landed this...

Image via Unplggd While back we showed you an iPhone app that lets you customize nature sounds to chill out to. You could choose a basic theme, like the ocean, and boost up the crashing waves or tone down the seagull calls to get just the right mix...

Image from londoncyclist Today is the big day: London's new bicycle rental system is being launched. Called Barclays Cycle Hire, after the bank which is a corporate sponsor to the tune of £25M, the system is high in Canadian content. Modelled...

Photo via Tom Nord The planet is short one centenarian this week after Hector, the world's oldest condor, passed away in Algeria at the ripe old age of 100. Experts say Hector's long life was quite a feat considering that the scavenging birds genera...

Photo: Youtube Something's Not Right With This Campaign Not long ago, many celebrities got together to make a PSA for the "Be The One" campaign, urging people to sign a petition to save the Gulf of Mexico on the website RestoreTheGulf.com (very simi...

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The Galapagos Islands are among the most stunning places on earth. The unparalleled biodiversity and spectacular wildlife makes it a travel destination the world over. But it's also in big trouble. When I traveled there two years ago, I saw firsthand...

Image credit: CoolClimate Art Contest The Earth may be our home but disasters like oil spills and threats like deforestation and global warming mean that it might not be such a hospitable place for much longer. Still, in the face of these obvious pr...

Photos: Weitzner Limited From papier mache beads to your own homemade kitty litter, there's reams of clever ways to reuse that huge pile of old newspapers, but what about wallpaper? "Newsworthy" is this upcycled newspaper wallcovering from New York...

Photo via Celsias A total of 10 petitions, including one from the US Chamber of Commerce, were sent to the EPA challenging its 2009 ruling that it can regulate greenhouse gases as a harmful pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Today, those 10 petition...

Image via a Green Living You'd be forgiven for thinking that AB 32, California's climate change law, was truly controversial. Republican candidates running for office this year have taken to publicly bashing it, calling it a job killer and worse. An...

Adam Joseph Lewis Center, William McDonough + Partners Voted Greenest Building since 1980 When covering Vanity Fair's World Architecture Survey I asked "Where's The Green?" and wrote that there was a "profound disconnect between the architecture sh...

Photo: White rhinoceros (Digital Vision) How far would you go to stop rhino poaching? Constantly outgunned by poachers' high-tech helicopters, machine guns, night-vision binoculars, bullet-proof vests and insane arsenal in the illegal trade of "med...

Nissan Leaf battery. Photo: Nissan Matching the Chevy Volt As predicted here, Nissan has decided to match GM and offer a 8-year/100k miles warranty on the battery pack of its LEAF electric car. It will be great for early adopters who will have one l...

Jamie Hinton, Chief of the Magnolia Springs Volunteer Fire Dept, considers the barges. Image courtesy of Philippe Cousteau. With the well capped and BP's promise of a "static kill" in the coming days, a sense of optimism, while tempered, seems to be...

The Asiatic cheetah once ruled that plains in India and the Middle East, but now its population is estimated to be 100 individuals or less. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Pursued by trophy hunters and herdsman, the Asiatic cheetah was brought to b...

Ryan Lingard Design Ryan Lingard designed and built this lovely litte cabin near Joseph, Oregon in a couple of weeks for under $10,000. Preston at Jetson Green tells us that it has a wood stove, metal roof, cedar rainscreen, reused windows, portable...

Photo via Boston In 1969, an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California released a few million gallons of oil into marine ecosystems -- eight months later, it was among the primary catalysts for the biggest pro-environmental movement in th...

Soot from vehicle exhaust, power generation and burning biomass is the second most important contributor to global warming. Photo: euthophication & hypoxia via flickr. More on the high, but heretofore largely neglected, role that soot plays in incre...

Image credit: Planet Green Babies babies babies. Looks like this episode of The Fabulous Beekman Boys is all about babies. I love babies. Doesn't everybody love babies? How can you not love a baby? Even a goat baby. Looks like this is going to be fu...

Image credit: The Sierra Club/Flickr This guest post was contributed by Robert Redford. A small minority of Senators robbed America of a cleaner, more prosperous future last week. In the middle of the biggest oil disaster in American history, the h...

Image credit: kevindooley/Flickr There are enormous opportunities to use energy more efficiently. Investing in energy efficiency is often far cheaper than expanding the energy supply to meet growing demand. Efficiency investments typically yield a h...

Though Manhattan experiences similar daytime temperatures to surrounding areas, it simply doesn't cool off nearly as much at night. Photo: Jakob Montrasio via flickr. If you thought the heatwaves we've already experienced this summer in New York Cit...

Pavemart.com John previously wrote about how rural roads are going back to the stone age because of the cost of asphalt. The sticky black liquid was the bottom of the barrel in the oil industry, often sold at a loss, to be mixed with aggregates and...

photo via flickr Ever wonder why you haven't heard from Rand Paul for a while after his disatrous coming out party? The GOP leadership put Paul on lockdown after he repeatedly demonstratedhis propensity to say outlandish--and to many--offensive, thi...

Whether you're a first-year or only two semesters away from that hard-earned degree in your hands, packing for college is never easy. But don't despair: Our back-to-school slideshow is here to make all those buying decisions easier -- and greener --...

Foodprint was founded in New York last summer by Sarah Rich (of Worldchanging fame) and Nicola Twilley (of Edible Geography) as a series of international conversations about food and the city....a truly cross-disciplinary discussion that explores th...

Photo by Anne Toal You're likely familiar with the way a caterpillar works its way up a stem or across a leaf -- that move-the-front-then-move-the-back process is one of their charms. But what you might not know is that a caterpillar actually moves...

Lakota squash just harvested from vines which had recently become overgrown with weeds. Image credit:J. Laumer This time of year, garden pathways and borders can become over-grown with weeds in a matter of days - especially if it's been raining a...

Image credit: Peak Moment I'll admit it. I may advocate peeing in public, stopping showering (quite as much), and I am a big fan of dumpster diving and the moneyless man. But despite these nods toward the crunchier end of green living...Read the ful...

Image via BBC The warming temperatures of the ocean are problematic for many species, but especially worrisome is the impact hotter water has on cornerstone species upon which many other marine animals rely. Usually we hear about changes in ocean te...

Image via New Scientist Japan's IKAROS spacecraft is a pioneering technology for solar sailing. The ship launched in May and is the first one to be propelled entirely by sunlight. It manages to steer itself by using just the pressure of sunlight on...

Photo by Mark Craemer Tucked into the financial reform bill that passed this week is a provision many sustainable electronics advocates will be happy about. Publicly-traded companies and electronics corporations will now be required to reveal whethe...