I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but let’s face it: we live in a toxic world.

We belong to a dynamic, interconnected energy structure — the web of life — and each life form deserves our close attention and deep respect.

Many of us are familiar with the term “sick building syndrome.”

Your food choices play an important part in creating a greener home and a greener community. Choosing locally grown food supports open space in your area.

A walk down the cleaning aisle of a supermarket offers a dazzling array of products all designed to get the job done quicker in a new and improved way. But at what cost to our health and our environment?

Many native plant species and animals are loosing their habitats. The state of Washington loses over 35,000 acres of wildlife habitat to housing and other development each year.

Cultivate a special garden space to grow your own healing essence remedies.

A visionary biologist says mushrooms are potent antiviral and antibacterial agents, as well as key boosters to the human immune system. They also might end up saving the Earth.

Essays of Simple Pleasures of Natural Living

While global warming is being officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al Gore’s conference on the topic...

There are health hazards to using paraffin candles; why you should use beeswax instead.

Molten lava. Tree frogs. A fertile valley. Our green-blue marble in space. These are some images that come to mind when I think of Mother Earth.

espite little action on many critical issues at the recent World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, the beginning of 2003 reveals fresh evidence of humanity’s capacity to respond rapidly to unprecedented environmental and social threats.

Holmes is the founder and director of the Farm School, a working dairy farm in Athol, Massachusetts, where middle-school kids from around New England spend three days and nights being real farmers.

If the United States Navy has its way, soon blasts of sound -- second in intensity only to that of a nuclear bomb going off -- will be routinely deployed throughout much of the world’s oceans.

The world is changing at an accelerating rate. The Internet, jet travel, and satellite links have helped facilitate this change with increasing fervor.

These eastern deciduous forests were a different world from the ancient redwood groves of Northern California where I'd grown up. The first thing I noticed in the earliest days after my arrival in New England was that there were few truly old trees in the forest.

To be a gardener is to enter the world of enchantments, miracles, and wonders, which is our true destiny. — Claire O'Rush, The Enchanted Garden

In addition to the overwhelming losses of life, property and security sustained through the shattering world events of September 11, 2001, many have also described the attacks on the United States as a wake up call to all of humanity.

I remember the first time he turned the car off. It was 1978 and I was in Stadtsteinach, Germany, and my mentor and friend Gottfried Mueller was driving. We came to a red light and he turned off his Audi while he waited for the light to change from red to green.

Proponents of fluoridation always present a simple message: fluoridation will prevent cavities; it is safe and effective because dentists, doctors, and a list of agencies say so; and those who oppose fluoridation are uninformed, misguided, and trying to scare people.

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the political storm that swept across the world a little over a decade ago was above all else...

As Chairperson of the International Department of Earth Village Network, Japanese environmentalist Yumiko Kohama and staff

"Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives." - Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth