China's emissions of carbon dioxide fell last year for the first time in 13 years - a drop of 2 percent during a year when their GDP was still growing by 7.4%. This decoupling of economic growth from emissions is significant and should buoy clean energy efforts around the world.
The 25 year-old mayor of Ithaca, N.Y., has taken his exclusive downtown parking spot, which is reserved for the mayor, and he turned it into a mini park, with flowers and benches.
Adidas is partnering with an environmental group to create footwear from recycled ocean trash, like illegal deep-sea fishing nets.
In a letter sent to President Barack Obama, a group of Republican former Environmental Protection Agency administrators, governors and members of Congress are throwing their public support behind a fuel economy target of 60 miles per gallon.
People can't get enough of a new fast food joint in central California that is super-sizing healthy alternatives to greasy fare.
Ecover, the green cleaning brand, said on Thursday it will use plastic waste retrieved from the sea to create an entirely new type of sustainable and recyclable plastic bottle. The Belgian company is working with plastic manufacturer Logoplaste to combine plastic trawled from the sea with a plastic made from sugar cane ('Plant-astic') and recycled plastic, in what it is calling a world-first for packaging.
The Hamm's Brewery in St. Paul, Minnesota closed in 1997, and now one of the vacant buildings is being renovated into an urban farm. A group called Urban Organics wants to bring more jobs, fresh vegetables and fish to restaurants and markets in the Twin Cities.
A new bank in a seacoast town on the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington State is Dubbed the country's first environmental bank by its parent, SouthShore Corp. of Chicago, because it is currently reviewing loan applications from businesses eager to use new technology to benefit both their ecological community and their own cash flow.
U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin is encouraging other agencies to follow the lead of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority that recently bought 53 hybrid buses and upgraded 10 trolleys to run on a hybrid system.
A new study shows mercury levels in bluefish off the U.S. Atlantic coast have dropped 43% since 1972, after coal-fired plants cut emissions in half.
Today, retailers are defining a new role as agents for consumers–and, even more, as educators and partners for consumers and their health.
Japan's abandoned and bankrupt golf courses are getting a second life as solar power stations.
Yosemite, Grand Teton and Denali National Parks will be the first National Parks to eliminate landfill waste–and they've got a great partner in Subaru.
An eco-friendly housing complex for the formerly homeless has opened a fine-dining restaurant that serves food from the community's farm.
During an experiment with sustainable farming, vineyards found an unexpected and pleasant side effect.
Tampa Bay's seagrass beds are luring back long-lost marine life that pollution pushed out years ago.
Belu Natural Mineral Water last week launched the UK’s first biodegradable and compostable plastic bottle. The revolutionary plastic bottle is made from corn instead of petroleum oil and can be commercially composted back into soil in 80 days.
Modern science discovers what Native Americans have known for centuries, a natural mosquito repellent you can grow in your own garden.
The CEO of America's biggest corporation did something astonishing this week: He staked his company's future on its ability, in his words, "to define the cutting edge in cleaner power and environmental technology." The greening of General Electric was announced by its chief executive, Jeffrey Immelt. He said that by 2010, GE would double its […]
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