Earthen buildings come in a vast variety of shapes and sizes, made from materials like fired clay, compressed dirt and a mixture of clay, sand, straw and water. People have been using various forms of earth to build structures for centuries, from the trad

Eco-Dome has made living in a bag something to be happy about. Check out this video by Eco-Dome. They make homes using nothing but a long plastic bag and some sand.

Proposals to build composting plants in B.C. to deal with cow-tissue waste from slaughterhouses and butcher shops are running into local opposition due to fear of mad cow disease.

Most people might have slept "in" a garden yet how many do you know have slept "over" one? Jane Hutton (FoodCycles latest member) and her partner Adrian designed an award winning sleep-above-the-garden net as part of the 10th Edition of the International

An engineer and retired Air Force colonel spent much of his military career creating coatings for spacecraft and airplanes, and has now invented a white "cool roof" coating that deflects 85% of the sun's heat and can cut air conditioning bills in half.

While many people are concerned with what unknown factor may be in GMO crops that may harm them, few, if any, are concerned about what is not in GMO crops that may harm them. Nor are they concerned with what is not in hybrid crops that may harm them. The

In March, Michelle Obama delighted locavores when she planted an "organic" vegetable garden on the White House's South Lawn. For years, Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and other sustainable food activists had been pushing the idea as a way to reseed interes

,The Navajo National Council voted to enact the Navajo Green Economy Commission, which would oversee the use of federal, state and private funds for green job initiatives. Through the measure, community members could apply for funding to create projects

The ideals behind Green Earth is to help support sustainable travel and travelers who already live a green lifestyle. The added feature of providing vegetarian and vegan geared destinations is useful to people who want to travel in a green/healthy manner.

Some hold out hope that long-term storage of carbon in wood products such as furniture and home-building materials can be a win-win solution. The notion is intuitively appealing, but...