HALL Wines recently announced that it has received theLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification for its Napa Valley St. Helena winery, becoming the first winery in California to be distinguished as a Gold certified facility by the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Green Building Rating System. “The certification of HALL Wines not [...]

Watering plants with rainwater, instead of water from city reservoirs, has a number of positive benefits: it increases populations of beneficial soil microbes, which can be harmed by the chlorine that is added to municipal water, and it prevents too much salt buildup in the soil. Rainwater is the right pH and, if stored properly, [...]

The Belgian city of Ghent plans to make a name for itself by becoming the first city on the planet to go vegetarian for one day each week. The city has decided, collectively (we love those European sensibilities) that there will be a regular weekly meatless day, in which civil servants and elected councilors will [...]

At Google’s Mountain View headquarters, there are a few large grassy fields that need mowing on occasion – as large grassy field often do, in order to clear pesky weeds and reduce fire hazards (common is this area of California). This spring the forward thinkers at Google have decided to take a low-carbon approach to [...]

With recent research coming out of the UK that shows that houses made of hemp can actually leave a less than zero carbon footprint, it’s truly a shame that industrialized hemp is still illegal in the US. The hemp homes used in the study were built using Hemp-lime, a lightweight composite building material made of [...]

In Chaffee County, Colo., Nestle Waters is sniffing around an aquifer hoping to harness the mountain spring flavor customers are seeking, drawing 65 million gallons of water per year to bottle and sell under its Arrowhead brand. However Chaffee County residents are not excited about the plan, afraid the water giant will suck the spring [...]

Barack Obama has lost some friends today, Cheech and Chong specifically, announcing a firm stance that legalizing then taxing marijuana sales will not help fix the teetering U.S. economy. At an online townhall meeting, President Obama revealed that the idea was a favorite among the 100,000 questions submitted on the White House website. “I have [...]

The hunky, blue-eyed babe that is Jake Gyllenhaal is lending his celebrity for the National Green Schools Initiative, lending a hand to plant a garden during Green Service Day at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles last month. Gyllenhaal joined Global Green USA President Matt Petersen for the launch of the National Green Schools [...]

It’s no secret that Disney has been jumping on the Green bandwagon lately. And now, they’re really living up to their promise by announcing they will plant a tree for every person who attends the premiere of their first film EARTH on opening weekend. Disney claims they will plant the trees in the Brazilian Atlantic [...]

In an interview for Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine, First lady Michelle Obama talked of her plans for the first organic vegetable garden at the White House. Michelle Obama, who is changing the traditional role of the First Lady with almost every move she makes, spoke about the importance of healthy eating and what she hopes [...]