Eco-friendly golf apparel brand TOMI OTEE and The First Tee of Metropolitan New York have formed a partnership  to bring sustainable practices to the golf industry by providing golf facilities the ability to receive used textiles from their members and participants. “We’re very excited about this partnership and we couldn’t think of [...]

Sapphire Energy has spent $60 million to build the world’s first large-scale algae farm to produce crude oil on a 2,200-acre lot in Columbus, New Mexico. The construction includes 70 ponds, each the size of a football field, and a refinery. Sapphire Energy began production summer 2012 and the first [...]

Climatologist Jason Box at the  Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University is hoping to use Kickstarter to raise $150,000 over the next months for his  Dark Snow Project, to help finance an expedition this summer to the “ice dome” of Greenland. The project website shares: Dark Snow is a field and [...]

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has a new installation in  San Gimignano, Italy which is made of 760 bicycles. Considered to be one of China’s most controversial artists, Weiwei’s work is always filled with protesting political messages. His latest bicycle installation, called Stacked, has hundreds of bicycles piled on top of one another starting from the floor [...]

A new report by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers has found that somewhere around ”30 and 50 percent of all the food that’s produced on the planet is lost and wasted without ever reaching human stomachs.” The report notes that “the potential to provide 60–100% more food by simply eliminating losses, while simultaneously freeing up land, [...]

Chinese media has taken a stand on air pollution in China by calling on the government to take action against pollution, which according to the media, have reached dangerous levels in the capital city, which is home to around 20 million people. According to the media, the air quality in Beijing [...]

According to a new study, the oil from the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which poured 5 million barrels of gallon of oil into the water, would have killed off coral reefs in the Florida Keys if it reached that far south. The scientists also believe that oil and dispersant from [...]

A new ORC International survey conducted for the nonprofit Civil Society Institute (CSI) and Environmental Working Group (EWG) has found that Americans are not against domestic energy production; however, they are not willing to sacrifice clean water, increased energy efficiency, and expanded wind and solar power as a cost. The [...]

The Chevrolet Volt is undeniably greener than a traditional automobile and as an electric car, it saves money. But if you’ve ever wondered how much money, then wonder no more! One owner has decided to crunch the numbers after using his Volt for a year. What are his findings? The Volt [...]

To commemorate the 125th anniversary of the National Geographic Society, Robert Ballard (who found the RMS Titanic in 1985), wild chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, filmmaker James Cameron, and National Geographic explorers will be taking questions from the public live in a Google+ Hangout from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (ET) this Sunday, Jan. 13. “Exploration is the National Geographic Society’s passion [...]