Currents

Seafood lovers hooked on $1 oyster nights may soon have to find a new source of comfort for the work-week blues.

A phony logging industry “eco-certification” entity funded by Weyerhaeuser, Plum Creek, International Paper, Sierra Pacific and other U.S. logging companies attempted last week to bully ForestEthics into silence.

An app for tracking home energy use–and estimating electrical bills–so you can start reducing both. The Green Outlet app makes it easy to gauge which appliance are using the most electricity–and costing the most–to help you reduce your household energy use and bills. You select your home appliances and the approximate hours per day of […]

No matter how many times I experience it, I still find unpalatable a business model that’s based on marginalizing animal welfare and polluting your neighbors’ air, land, water and quality of life.

The Sacred Headwaters in northern British Columbia look much the way they did in John Muir’s time–thanks to the work of nonprofits and native groups.

To the Arctic Give Away Entry Form

Bloggers take on chemicals in Kraft mac n’ cheese, groups sue over bee deaths and a new study about the possibility for clean energy in New York.

Whether celebrating Easter, Passover or the vernal equinox this month, ‘tis the season for sweet tooths of all ages. Here are some picks as green as that fake basket grass.

The U.S. federal budget sequester may be moving us toward a more sustainable society, at least in one limited aspect.

An unprecedented 184 manatees have been killed in Gulf of Mexico waters off southwest Florida due to toxic red tide blooms.