GREEN LIVING

Here are families defying the trend of one car for every adult. The secret, I found, is not just choosing how you want to live. It’s where you live.

You can eat healthier and shrink your carbon footprint with these recipes and dietary guidelines, which don’t require you to ditch meat or sacrifice flavor.

It’s time to look beyond all-purpose flour.

Fires and floods can wreck your mental health. Community can rebuild it.

Repair services and programs that allow you to fix or trade in your old gear can extend the life span of your products and keep them out of landfills.

There are about 1 billion bikes in the world. I found an affordable way to make almost any of them electric. 

A new generation of apps are rescuing food from the landfills at a fraction of the retail price at restaurants and grocery stores.

Composting is not for everyone. But you haven’t tried solar digesters.

Foraging — the act of finding wild, edible food — is a lost art in modern society. Perhaps it’s time for a revival.

‘My ultimate goal is to have trolls surprising people in every state,’ said Thomas Dambo, whose latest project is in Detroit Lakes, Minn.

Definitive answers to the most common household battles over sustainability.

Just Stop Oil activists could take a page from the civil rights movement, experts say.

Thousands of baby boomers are living with intergenerational housemates — a setup that could help ease the housing crunch and cut global warming emissions.

Scientists finally made fake cheese taste good.

For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again.

A pork-free version of bacon could change the game, unlocking methods to make all plant-based meats rival the real thing and put a much bigger dent in emissions.

Whether chemical sunscreens damage or kill corals in the wild is still the subject of scientific debate.

Next time you pick up your phone to snap a seflie, try grabbing a photo of the life around you.