As the planet starts heating up, maybe it's time to finally go cold turkey. Take the personal challenge by locking up your debit card, your credit cards, your money clip, and see what it feels like to opt out of consumer culture, even if only for 24 hrs.

This new branch of science is allowing us to have our cake and eat it too. By designing new compounds and discovering new ways to make old compounds, chemists are helping us keep our modern innovations while reducing our ecological footprint.

a new survey of Hearst Magazines subscribers shows many magazine readers care about the environment and are ready to pay more for magazines printed on recycled paper and committed to eco-friendly practices.

Americans will soon be celebrating National Downshifting Week, a voluntary simplicity awareness campaign sponsored by the non-profit Conscious Consuming. The U.S. Downshifting Manifesto "Slow Down and Green Up"

Burd tried mixing his most effective strain with the others. He found Pseudomonas and Sphingomonas bacteria together produced a 32 per cent weight loss in his plastic strips. His theory is strain one helps strain two reproduce.

Come one, come all to the Jenny McCarthy & Jim Carrey DC Rally for Autism.

With assistance from Philadelphia's Food Trust, a food advocacy group, Romano is pairing a sustainable makeover--low-energy coolers and lights--with a transformation of his store's wares, from packaged and processed to fresh and healthy.

Some household appliances cost us while they sit around and collect dust. They suck energy just by being plugged in, even if they aren't turned on. This wickedly wasteful phenomenon is commonly known as standby power, but we call it Vampire Energy.

The steady deterioration of the very climate of our very planet is becoming a war of the first order, and by any measure, the U.S. is losing. Indeed, if we're fighting at all--and by most accounts, we're not--we're fighting on the wrong side.

A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin who say the microbe could provide a significant portion of the nation's transportation fuel if producti