Raising chickens in the city makes sense. What even we dubbed as a weird eco habit back in '05 has turned into a movement across North America. Looking at how conventional chickens are raised - in battery cages with arsenic compounds in their feed -

"Tree planting is a contribution towards addressing the issue of global warming, but only as a complement to the most important action - reducing the use of fossil fuels, and the emissions of carbon dioxide that entails."

Selling raw milk is against the law in many states, but a growing number of consumers are drinking the substance for its added health benefits

People give you this whole rap about how easy saving the planet is. Change a light bulb and save the world. Yes and no. How about we consider it a start rather than an end destination? The lowdown on the CFL from Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh.

Your leanest and greenest weapons with which to battle the $4 gallon.

People CAN wake up from the self-destructive trance that has been induced by the mass media and lying politicians. When we do wake we are an irresistible force.

Gardeners have been put on alert for a deadly fungus that lurks in compost heaps and in piles of rotting leaves.

The Shaul family has been living off the grid for the past 10 years, making their own electricity using a water-driven Pelton wheel. The Alaskan family enjoys modern conveniences, and lives in a 1,500-square-foot home that looks like any other house.

It can filter 1,000 liters a day, using only 500 watts of electricity per hour. To put that into perspective, a toaster uses about 1,000 watts every time you make toast.

With all of the Northwest's cloudy and rainy days, one might think that the use of solar energy is not viable. But that is not the case.