Tired of paying as much as $340 per month for gas and electricity at the Cape Cod home here where he has lived for 18 months, Michael Mercurio erected a 35-foot windmill in his backyard last fall and helped reduce his bill to about $114 - a year.

Recently, I stopped by my neighborhood Exxon station to conduct a price test. A 20-ounce bottle of Aquafina water cost $1.57, including tax. A 20-ounce bottle of Pepsi also cost $1.57. Regular gas sold for $3.05 a gallon. Why drink bottled water?

In remote western Queensland, the town of Windorah is about to become one of Australia's greenest communities, with the construction of the state's first solar farm. Five solar dishes, each 14 metres in diameter, will generate enough electricity...

As EU governments fret about reducing carbon emissions, rail executives are eager to point out that high-speed cross-border rail journeys within Europe release about 10 times less CO2 than flights to the same destinations.

Green burials were still very novel -- so novel that a couple of documentary film researchers discreetly watched the proceedings from behind a hawthorn hedge. The announcement that he was to be buried among the cabbages was received positively by relatives

PLASMA televisions are sending home power bills sky high as more people install bigger and more energy-intensive screens. Electric hot-water systems remain the No.1 energy guzzler in the home but plasma TVs are fast overtaking refrigerators and freezers..

A charity that helps farmers in poor countries has strongly condemned the development of biofuels. The charity, called Grain, says growing crops for fuel is causing ecosystems to be destroyed and farmers to lose their land.

For 12 years, Mary Rohlfing was a professor of communications at Boise State University. But in 2004, she chucked academia to become what she calls a "soil farmer." Rohlfing grows 40 different types of vegetables, plus assorted herbs and flowers, and...

JUST over 150 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people flocked to central Victorian towns like Castlemaine seeking gold. Today, Castlemaine is buzzing again -- only this time it's all about going green.

For sale by owner: small North Dakota town. Call: Toots. More than half a century after Edythe "Toots" Hagglund and her husband, Eddie, decided to build a town on a treeless piece of prairie at the edge of a popular fishing lake, Toots is putting the hear