Utne Reader - Environment

An anonymous do-gooder in Berlin transforms a city-street eyesore (and improvised public toilet) by building a Givebox, a cheery phone-booth-sized structure where community members can donate, take, and trade items from books to high heels. Now, Giveboxes are catching on....

Honesty has ceased to be a virtue, and in its absence "our society risks a future of moral numbness," writes William Damon.

Guitar manufacturers are shredding the rainforest faster than a Van Halen solo...

To the power brokers of America's right, climate change poses a dire threat to business as usual.

Fears of violence and a hunger for profit are sparking a worldwide run on farmland...

Lynx, wolves, moose, and wild boars still roam under dense tree cover in Latvia-but the country's alarming logging spree may endanger this rich European outpost of wildlife.

The modern wilderness expedition is typically a heavily sponsored, satellite-uplinked, closely tracked affair. So it's a breath of fresh air to read an expedition account that truly takes you to the edge of adventure and to the limits of human endurance.

We ought to put aside our extremism and come together to find common solutions, goes the conventional wisdom-and you can see where that kind of thinking has gotten us. Well, it's time to reject this middling middle-of-the-roadism.

Lots of people think that farming has gotten too industrialized. But there are others who believe it's not nearly industrialized enough-such as the inventor who envisions armies of robots growing our food.

Underwater construction is dangerous for salmon swimming to spawning grounds. Luckily, we can help....

India is pushing organic cultivation initiatives to stanch the spate of farmer suicides...

Some argue that the big business is sustainable design is a fraud...

Oyster mushrooms can turn disposable diapers into a profitable food staple...

Did the United States poison tens of thousands of its own soldiers in Iraq with fumes from burning toxic trash?...

The U.S. military no longer wants to trade blood for oil...

Revolution Recovery is a green business that's pioneering ways to keep the daily deluge of construction and demolition waste out of landfills.

Some fallacies die long, slow, hard deaths, and it appears that's what's happening with the happy, comforting, brainless mantra "Growth is good".

The decisions, or lack thereof, that come from the UN Climate Summits affect the least powerful on the planet-those who have come to be known as the 99 percent-the most...

Why a real Christmas tree is a healthier and more environmentally friendly option than an artificial tree.

Is there a better use for greens and fairways?...