This Freecycle group matches people who have things they need to get rid of with people who can use them.Freecycle IS about keeping things out of the landfill.giving away something that has no use in our life anymore to someone who could extend its usefu

By the end of this year, the world is projected to reach an unheralded but historic milestone: Half of the fish and shellfish we consume will be raised by humans, rather than caught in the wild.

Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug who won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating world hunger and saving nearly 1 billion lives, which kick-started the 'Green Revolution' has died Saturday in Dallas from complications due to cancer at age 95.

With the most diverse array of alternative energy potential of any state in the nation, Hawaii has set out to become a living laboratory for the rest of the country, hoping it can slash its dependence on fossil fuels while keeping the lights on.

Even your doghouse can go green, writes Bettijane Levine in today's Home section:

Three prominent national environmental groups criticized today's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcement that it would not grant Texas Governor Perry's request to temporarily waive the federal mandate for ethanol.

Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, who developed a type of wheat that saved one billion people from starvation, has died.Borlaug, 95, died on Saturday from complications of cancer at his Dallas home.He was known as the father of green

Every home will be issued with a kitchen slop bucket under plans being drawn up in Whitehall.Ministers aim to ban the dumping of food waste in landfill sites.They insist that all the food collected by binmen is instead sent to recycling plants

"AMONG the traditional brick and clapboard structures that line the streets of this sleepy East Texas town, 70 miles north of Houston, a few houses stand out: their roofs are made of license plates, and their windows of crystal platters.""He also makes u

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.