What happens when chef and a climate change expert get together to teach a class?

New efficiency standards for buildings and appliances have inexplicably been awaiting approval by the Office of Management and Budget for months now.

The Perennial Plate crew drops by a refugee garden in Atlanta and goes home with a Bhutanese family for dinner.

Yet another reason why the Republican transportation bill sucks: It would open up more land to oil shale mining — a destructive and not-commercially feasible technology.

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, seemingly intent on driving the country into a ditch, have thrown together a “uniquely terrible” transportation bill. A growing chorus of critics says the legislation is far from roadworthy.

Shocker: An independent analysis of the DOE Loan Guarantee Program found that loan guarantees for energy have been successful, cost-effective investments.

Any morally acceptable pathway to prevent catastrophic global warming includes broad access to affordable birth control for the world’s women.

There’s no comprehensive, standardized way for cities to track their carbon pollution, but a new study puts forward a useful model. And it counts not just the CO2 we produce, but the CO2 we consume.

With the value of the residential green building market expected to grow fivefold by 2016, builders say going green is great for their business.

When conjuring the image of liberal high society, Newt Gingrich often points to the subway. His compadres in Congress want to obliterate designated funding for mass transit. Here’s the real reason they hate trains.

In one corner you have the biotech seed giant, in the other you have 83 non-GMO seed producers, farmers, and agricultural organizations who want Monsanto to stop suing and threatening them.

Any discussion about the sustainability of salmon is no longer limited to how many of the fish are pulled from the sea. The latest photo in the series features a farmer who has made his stream safe for spawning.

The Secret Farm Bill process is long over and the Senate Ag Committee has scheduled its first round of Farm Bill hearings. So where should the sustainable food community put its attention now?

if you’re going to make carbonated water at all, why not live deep, suck the marrow out of life, and clone your favorite top-shelf mineral water?

Last fall, our green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, set out to offset the globe-warming gases she produced on a trip to Texas. Four months into it, she’s not even halfway to her goal. The lesson? Well, read on …