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A recent survey shows that members of Gen Y are walking 37 percent more than a decade ago, biking 122 percent more and taking public transit 100 percent more.

According to conventional wisdom, building a green home is an expensive endeavor.

Historically, seed companies were generally small, often family-run businesses. Because they were regionally based, they could focus on varieties well-suited to the local environment.

Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each

What book would you want if you were stranded on a desert island' Widely regarded as the "bible" of off-grid living, Real Goods Solar Living Source Book might be your best choice.

Flush it and forget it is the plumbing mantra of the industrialized world. Most people just want sewage to go away, preferably without having to see, smell, or worse yet, touch it.

Imagine the typical American farmer. Many people visualize sun-roughened skin, faded overalls, and calloused hands-hands that are usually white.

Eighty-three million dogs and ninety-six million cats call the United States home. Dogs alone produce enough waste to fill more than 1,091 football fields 1 foot deep in a single year.

Most of us understand the value of eating and buying local.

In the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh-the worst garment industry accident in recorded history-the phrase "fashion disaster" acquired a new and much more sinister me

Small-scale home biodiesel production holds a singular attraction for the do-it-yourself enthusiast.

You want to do something for the planet, but what' Change a light bulb, install a low-flow faucet, eat organic' How about ride forty-seven hundred miles across America on a bamboo bicycle

Nutrition, environmental impact, ethics, sustainability-it seems like there's no end to the factors we must consider when we think about our food.

Bee populations are plummeting worldwide. Colony Collapse Disorder poses a serious threat to many plants which rely on bees for pollination, including a significant proportion of our food crops.

More than ever, people are longing for deep and meaningful change. Another world is not only possible; it is essential.