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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
A new Pew report on the clean energy economy shows that these "green jobs" everyone's talking about were stealthily surging way before Van Jones...
Putting aside for a moment the dietary arguments against drinking cow's milk—we're not calves, it's liquid meat, it's snot-producing, so hard to...

Which electronics companies are doing their part to take care of the planet? Greenpeace provides an update.

The author of General Earn offers easy, everyone-can-do-this ways to save money that also reduce waste. Click though and learn.

For companies like Walmart, going green means making products that use fewer resources. Software companies are helping them get there.

Half of Portland cyclists run red lights. And maybe they've got the right idea.

A Minnesota microbrewery has a secret ingredient that makes beer cheaper, cleaner, and more local.

Hospitals use more energy per square foot than almost any other type of building in America. But experts are thinking about how to change that.
Supporting local businesses is important. Local businesses help create vibrant downtowns, boost tourism, and participate in local charity...

This week, New York City opened its first neighborhood slow zone, where slower speed limits make roads more accessible to anyone not in a car.
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For those of you keeping score at home, here's the current state of renewable energy investment around the globe. Overall, investment in renewable...
Kim Scheinberg's new venture fund plans to institutionalize the idea of paying it forward. At its heart this new idea was thought up by a kale...
Before we get to the goodish news, a caveat: Let's not for any reason allow this kind of thing to make us feel like we can run the A/C all summer...

One company has figured out how to make energy more competitive, and more sustainable.

For buildings of comparable size and use, old buildings are almost always the greenest buildings.
Venture capitalists love to talk about "investing in people"-but what if they meant it literally? A new funding concept launched by social...
Don’t just buy local, invest local: One town’s plan to buy stock in their own community. We’ve all been told to buy locally, but when it comes...
Energy efficiency projects can reduce a building's impact on the environment and save the owner of that building money when the annual energy...

Two small U.S. businesses found success by staying committed to the environment—and their home turf.