Living Green

Sen. John Kerry says he is pushing environmental reforms to create jobs and spark energy independence, with climate benefits along "for the ride."

To avoid the high cost of becoming greener, power companies and steel makers are using offsets to meet emissions-reduction requirements, the group Sandbag said.

The students will teach Haitians how to build houses made with sandbags. After the 7.0 magnitude earthquake, the island-nation needs safe housing especially before the impending hurricane season.

A new Gallup poll finds that the American public in the past two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming and less convinced it is having an impact on the environment.

A coffee-powered
car, nicknamed "car-puccino," is going on a 210-mile road trip
Thursday. It will burn the equivalent of more than 10,000 espressos.
Will it make it?

Thursday's conference of some 40 nations will make plans to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change.

China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations.

Fruit-picking opportunities are becoming more common, as
volunteers in cities including Boston, Detroit, and Philadelphia mobilize behind a goal of planting fruit trees on public
land in city neighborhoods.

The meltdown is revealing an astonishing concentration of filth.

It IS easy being green, despite what Kermit the frog says.

As more brides are planning "green" weddings, bridal shops, florists, and caterers alike are keeping up with the trend.

Process splits water into hydrogen and oxygen fuel. Using as little as one bottle of water, a home may be fueled.

Obama met to discuss clean energy in Arlington, Va. Clean energy talks continued.

The Interior Department announced the sage grouse's status listing. The species did not make the endangered or threatened lists.