by Sarah Laskow. New York City is fielding proposals from universities to build a new science and technology campus on Roosevelt Island, and the competition is showing how desirable green buildings are becoming. The two front-runners,... 

by Jess Zimmerman. The iMac was built to be pretty. So why not sidestep the difficulty of recycling e-waste by making discarded iMac carapaces into something attractive for the home? Jake Harms had the clever idea to make them into... 

by Jess Zimmerman. The whole “feminists burn their bras” thing is kind of a canard , but now you can do it for real and for an equally good cause. Japanese lingerie manufacturers are collecting bras and recycling them... 

by Sarah Laskow. Babies! They use so much energy that the best thing you could do to save the human race from climate change might be to avoid having one altogether . But if you choose the reproductive path, at least the six thousand... 

by Sarah Laskow. While U.S. border monitors were busy looking for terrorists in cargo containers, a slew of invasive species slipped unnoticed into the country. Whatever that sheen in the Gulf is, it's not BP's fault , okay??... 

by Jess Zimmerman. Unless you're stranded on a desert island, you should not throw empty glass bottles in the water. But you SHOULD apparently grind up those bottles, mix the ground glass with lime and caustic soda , and put that... 

by Jess Zimmerman. What I know about Lord of the Rings can basically be summed up in a single Flight of the Conchords song , but someone clearly had a terrifically good time making this recycling-based parody, so I still think it's... 

by Jess Zimmerman. What I know about Lord of the Rings can basically be summed up in a single Flight of the Conchords song , but someone clearly had a terrifically good time making this recycling-based parody, so I still think it's... 

Electronic waste is a number of different types of waste streams. It can include old computers, TV’s etc. The European Parliament and the 27 EU member states are set for difficult negotiations over the recast of the bloc’s... 

by Jess Zimmerman. This Chuck Close-style self-portrait by Mary Ellen Croteau is entirely made of discarded bottle caps. (A lot of them are from sodas, but deodorant caps, childproof pill container lids, soap bottle-style pumps, and... 

Cartons as in milk cartons for example. Just trash or something that can be recycled and become sustainable? The City of Dallas has launched recently a new effort to add food and beverage cartons as part of its residential curbside... 

by Sarah Laskow. Enviros are hoping Lisa Jackson, their one stalwart ally high up in the administration, will keep on keeping on , despite the White House's decision to undermine her work on smog regulations. A Pennsylvania town... 

by Sarah Laskow. The Huffington Post's eco-etiquette column yesterday featured a question from “Kimberly,” who writes “I used to be enthusiastic about going green, but now I feel like what's the point? Like... 

by Sarah Laskow. “The biggest mistake this nation has made in its entire history” would be not to invest in clean energy, VP Joe Biden said yesterday at the National Clean Energy Summit 4.0 The Russian government just... 

by Sarah Laskow. Ever see a bike on the street that had your heart going pitter-patter? Sarah Raz, of the Adventure Cycling Association, knows where you’re coming from : “I can't even tell you how many times I've... 

by Christopher Mims. At Sandia National Laboratories, a giant array of mirrors heats rings of metal oxides to 2,550  Read More →

by Sarah Laskow. At last night's Republican debate, Michele Bachmann tried to stake Tim Pawlenty on his support for cap-and-trade. The EPA wised up and banned DuPont from selling Imprelis, the herbicide that was killing trees... 

by Christopher Mims. Texas is now in the midst of its  Read More →

by Jess Zimmerman. Plastic bags are the genital warts of litter — they're incredibly widespread, nearly impossible to get rid of, and can lead to much worse problems down the line. The only thing that works is prevention... 

by Christopher Mims. A few years ago, the only people who came in to Alliance Recycling in Emeryville, Calif., were were pushing shopping carts. Now, the same center is seeing people pull up in late model cars. “Since the economy...