Aug. 4--Elliott Bayly aims to return a once-common fixture to the American farm. The Duluth businessman wants to bring back the windmill.Toward that end, Bayly, a longtimepromoter of wind power, has developeda three-bladed wind turbine designed to genera

One version of a popular upside-down tomato planter is being recalled. The Topsy-Turvy Deluxe Tomato Planter sold on the shopping network QVC is being recalled after more than 150 people were injured by the product.The plant can become unstable when mov

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Governor Ed Rendell says he plans to sign a bill that would make Pennsylvania the 33rd state to ban smoking in many work places and public spaces.On Tuesday, the state Senate passed the bill and last week it was approved by the House.The bill is a compr

Tells 60 Minutes That Doubting Global Warming Is Man-Made Is Akin To Believing Earth Is Flat

TODAY @ 5pm!!! The new-ish sustainable food and community organization Green Edge Collaborative is hosting a great how-to workshop on composting this Sunday in DUMBO!

Habana Outpost hosts the Earth Day Expo with a celebration of all things green happening right here in Brooklyn. An Expo the way that only ONLY 'New York's first solar powered restaurant' and Eco-Eatery-extraordinaire can do.

An initiative by NYC Council Member Bill de Blasio seeks to replace NYC schools' styrofoam lunch trays -- 850,000 of them per day, 4 million per week -- with trays made from plant-based bagasse. The initiative is being piloted at Brooklyn's PS 154.

CUISINART'S GREEN GOURMET cookware line includes nonstick surfaces manufactured without petroleum and solvents. The pieces come in recycled packaging that uses biodegradable soy ink.

Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESA's Envisat environmental satellite,scientists have for the first time detected regionally elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide,the most important greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming>>