Patrick James
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
New York subway riders throw out $52 million worth of rides each year. Can MetroChange harvest that value back into the community?
Trillions, plural. Trillions of dollars-between two and three, actually. That's how much Congress has spent annually since the Bush...
Some lawmakers want 100 new nuclear power plants for America. Here's why that's a bad use of your tax dollars. "It is not too much to expect...
Kamikatsu, a small arboreal village in south-west Japan, has begun the arduous process of becoming Japan's first zero-waste community. By its...
Apparently, the water bottle makers at Nalgene also produce (or simply commission) a pretty good survey of which cities are the least wasteful....
It boggles the mind if you think about it too much: one child, one lunch a day, for 13 years. A typical kid can produce 67 pounds of lunch trash...
Do you have a cellular phone? Or perhaps a television? If you're reading this, you probably have a computer. And if you're wondering how to...
In July, we're getting less trashy by trying to reduce our garbage to one grocery bag per week. Waste not? We'll certainly try.
Remember that scene in Back to the Future, where Doc comes back from 2015 with the flying DeLorean, and fills it up with banana peels as a source...
Recycling is nothing new, but few among us have seen what happens to our plastic, paper, metal, and glass once it departs from our blue, curbside...
Daylight savings time was introduced to save energy, but it turns out it actually does the opposite. The economist Matthew Kotchen looked at how...
Looking to revive that dusty Nintendo 64, but not quite sure how to do it? Treehugger has a post in praise of iFixit, a site that posts free,...
As we throw out more and more electronics, where do we throw out our old ones?
Future Farmers explore the absurdities and complexities of everyday life in their art and design installations.
When Jonathan Bloom writes about food, he writes about the 40 percent of it we grow and then throw away, uneaten.
A look at the massive amount of space garbage orbiting the planet.
I’m no hoarder—look, no dead cats!—but I do have a messed up relationship with waste management.
Turkey Day can celebrate plenty without wasting food.
If the transition from 386 to 486 resonates loudly in your heart strings, then you have some idea of how far we've come the past fifteen years...
This is one of eight sets of questions to consider when envisioning a city that can win the climate fight. Read the introduction, and take a...
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