A new study from the University of Colorado has found the positive effect plants have on families. The findings of the new study suggest that plants, like humans and animals, have the ability to be altruistic. Sound nutty? Continue reading. The researchers cultivated the corn and harvested more than 100 ears over [...]

According to Time Magazine, China is burning as much coal as the rest of the world is cumulatively burning. What’s the problem with this? Time reports: “Coal already accounts for 20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, making it one of the biggest causes of man-made climate change. Combine that with the direct damage that air pollution from [...]

Remember the film The Lorax? Where the all supreme entrepreneur-turned-millionaire-turned-mayor sold canned air? I remember watching that and chuckling to myself at the the thought of someone making a profit off of clean air, but as it would turn out, I chuckled too soon. Amidst China’s pollution crisis, Chinese millionaire and [...]

The capital of China was forced to cancel flights due to poor visibility and temporarily shut down factories due to the high levels of smog. The Associated Press writes: The capital was a colorless scene. Street lamps and the outlines of buildings receded into a white haze as pedestrians donned face [...]

Carmaker Chevrolet is supporting the IdleAir project, a carbon-reduction project, that aims to help truckers “avoid idling during rest breaks at truck stops through a technology that maintains a comfortable cabin temperature and powers a TV, laptop or microwave without emitting the carbon dioxide emissions that come from engine idling.” According to a [...]

When it comes to food wastage, India has a unique problem. There problem doesn’t like in overconsumption, but rather, the inability for food to last long enough to be prepared—the government estimates that 30 to 40 percent of food spoils. And while refrigeration seems like the obvious answer to problem, [...]

Three years ago, Timberland promised to plant 5 million trees in five years in Haiti. After teaming up with a local non-governmental organization, the Smallholder Farmers Alliance, Timberland has successfully planted 2.2 million trees in the rural region near Gonaives, Haiti. They are slated to plan a million more trees in 2013, 2014, and 2015. [...]

Restaurant chain McDonald’s has announced that it will only serve certified-sustainable seafood at all of its  14,000 U.S. franchises, making it the first U.S. restaurant chain to do so. The franchise currently serves the Filet-O-Fish sandwich and will soon be launching Fish McBites. Dan Gorsky, senior vice president of U.S. [...]

Parisian architecture firm Studio 1984 submitted a human nest made of bales of straw as their entry into a competition hosted by the Archi<20 Festival de L’Architecture in Alsace, France. “Social and environmental sustainability are linked and should be considered in the design of projects,” cofounder Romain Gié tells Co.Design.“For us it is like a land art [...]

China’s environment minister stated that the emissions of four major pollutants (sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, chemical oxygen, and ammonia nitrogen) dropped last year by two percent, and that the country would see a similar decline this year. “To cope with an air quality crisis, contingency measures will be adopted, such [...]