Spirit

American Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter has returned to Vermont — to live in her yurt. “Mom has a huge garden and fruit trees,” she told People ma...

George Clooney’s starring role in “Up in the Air” is a movie about a special class of off-gridder – the business traveller – livin...

by Susan France Bonner, Author of Opening a Registered Nurse’s Eyes: A Life Altering Journey Across North America. The health care debate in the United States o...

Sit, flush and forget, that’s what most of us do, multiple times a day. Composting toilets are the answer. We use perfectly good, drinkable water to flush...

A new report from Environment America names power stations as the biggest polluters in the US. It lists the dirtiest facilities and the dirtiest states....

Treetop Jen has returned home to the UK, and now she is wondering how to reshape her life. Aim: to live off-grid in the back of  a minibus, simply parked in a  ...

What we have to learn from Cuba about self-medicine – when the oil runs out it will be needed...

Tracey Emin and Simon Cowell flaunt their wealth – are they out of step with the times or are we still living in the greedy 80s?...

Some time back, I did a review of LaMar’s Simple Solar Homestead, a great (and inexpensive) ebook created by LaMar, the great thing about LaMar, is he is ...

NBC sports has come out with an appalingly sexist story naming its choice of the top “sexy and green” twitteristas. The list of female tweeters with their Twitt...

Economist Joseph Stiglitz heads task force to redefine French GDP...

Remember those silly little Chia Pets? Little did we know then that those strange little seeds painted on those cheesy terracotta pots shaped like animals were ...