What do plants need to grow? Soil, water, sunlight. But there’s something else that’s just as important: nitrogen. Most plants are only able to access nitrogen through the soil, so, we supply them ...

More companies and organizations are finally putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to sustainability. Most recently, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which provides non-profit ...

A water feature can add a beautiful highlight to your front yard. Unfortunately, running the wiring to power a pump can be cumbersome, not to mention the fact that no one wants to waste electricity on ...

Today, Connecticut state regulators denied permission for a developer to build a solar farm on 25 acres of land near Chatfield Hollow State Park in Killingworth, CT, a small town of 6,400 located in ...

When you’ve got your green building innovation installed in the backyard of U.S. Green Building Council founder David Gottfried, you know you’re doing something right. The innovation is the HOG ...

Solar power is one of the best energy sources available to us. It’s clean, renewable, and very powerful. For years the trouble has been finding cost-effective ways to capture that power. There have ...

We’ve all heard about how as more CO2 is released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels; more is being absorbed by oceans, and that is making the ocean too acidic so that shellfish can’t make ...

Contrails might be a punch line in the culture these days, thanks to the imaginative folks who have rechristened them “chemtrails” and embroidered them with elaborate theories involving government and ...

The best air filtration systems, are able to sift out almost all the harmful airborne contaminants in your home, leaving you and your family healthier and happier. Air filters typically remove two ...

There’s buzz in many parts of the world about engineered wood as the ideal sustainable material for future buildings, even tall ones. Last fall, Melbourne, Australia staked a claim as home of the ...

Economists at the University of Chicago recently published findings that show state-level renewable energy mandates raise utility prices by an extremely-high 17%. The findings are much higher than an ...

Siphoning energy from irrigation canals is getting a little play in the United States; the Seattle-based company Hydrovolts has been testing a turbine in a U.S. Bureau of Reclamaction canal in ...