green living

Martha Stewart Omnimedia (MSO) and KB Home (KBH) will launch a line of green homes. The announcement was made in conjunction with Builder magazine. The project is officially known as the "KB Home GreenHouse: An Idea Home Created with Martha Stewart." The concept was unveiled ahead of the NAHB...

Reusable shopping bags made in China have drawn the ire of U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), who is calling for a federal investigation into how the bags found their way to consumers after a news report showed some of them contained dangerous levels of lead content. Schumer is seeking to...

As fall creeps in and a chill takes over my house at night, I've been contemplating turning the gas furnace on for the first time. But oh, how I've been treasuring these $40 summer gas bills! Bet you have, too. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways you can turn the dial back to "middling" when it...

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was a leading voice in the fight against climate change just three years ago. Now, amid accusations of sexual misconduct, he faces an image problem. Is the environment losing a key spokesman?

Annie Haven's manure tea bags might appear steeped in novelty, but when it comes to brewing up business, the woman knows her you-know-what. "I didn't just look at my cows and say I'm going to sell manure," Haven, a rancher in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., told WalletPop. Just for clarification:...

Former fabric designer Julia Fry started Vaska a decade ago because she found traditional soaps were ruining her clothes. Her young green laundry products company has already won coveted shelf space in Duane Reade and Sam's Club. Fry talks about how she did it, and what's next.

Coca-Cola announced another major green initiative, as the world's biggest beverage company pushes ahead with an aggressive green agenda. Coca-Cola will place a three megawatt solar installation on rooftops of two Coca-Cola buildings in Spain.

The eyes of the world are turned to Copenhagen and the pivotal environmental summit taking place in that quaint, lovely Scandinavian city. The task faced there by the leaders of the world is simple to articulate: Save the planet from the carbon menace and all the ills associated with the curse of...

At a recent panel discussion put on by The Indus Entrepreneurs, everyone agreed that the residential solar-panel market will grow by leaps and bounds in 2009 and 2010. I blogged about the possibility that wholesale solar panel prices in residential actually might rise again as a result of demand,...

My friend has a Tesla Roadster. For those who are unfamiliar with Tesla Motors, the Roadster is the Ferrari of the electric-vehicle world, a high-performance two-seater with more sex appeal than Mae West. How ironic, then, that my friend pines for her old Honda Insight, a dinky little hybrid that...