Living Green Now

Depending on where you live, the soil you grow your fruits and vegetables in may not be safe.

First lady Michelle Obama planted the garden on the South Lawn this spring with local schoolchildren.

A Frederick-based veterans' program has received a $500,000 grant through a federal "green jobs" program.

The Green Registry provides information and resources for companies about how to increase sustainability.

The government will help companies build powerful solar farms in the desert Southwest by pre-qualifying huge swaths of federal land for development.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is challenging a Virginia State Water Control Board decision that allows Merck & Co. to increase its pollution discharge into the Shenandoah River.

Mobile phone makers to introduce a new single, more energy efficient charger that can be used for data-enabled handsets.

The law requires that a system be in place by 2011 for collecting and recycling the bulbs.

There's a home in Arlington that is as Green as it gets.

Officials at parks across the country are trying to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with the help of federal stimulus dollars.

The gas cows belch is the dairy industry's biggest greenhouse gas contributor most of it emitted from the front and not the back end of the cow.

Despite the flood of "green" products on the market these days, the government watchdog in charge of such claims takes no action to verify them.

Southern Maryland residents will be able to recycle empty pesticide containers through the Maryland Department of Agriculture's (MDA) 17th annual Pesticide Container Recycling Program.