Farming is time-intensive, back-breaking, tiring work--so why not leave it to the robots? A group of MIT students are doing just that with a cluster of tomato plants placed on artificial turf. The students' "precision agriculture" system has 2 components: a device that allows each plant to...

It's getting pretty hard to ignore the numerous recalls that plagued the food industry recently--peanut butter, alfalfa sprouts, pancake mix, and even elk tenderloin. So it's no surprise that the world's first food safety company has emerged. iPura won't save you from diseased elk tenderloin--it onl...

If you want your car converted to run on biodiesel or vegetable oil, there are plenty of places to turn--conversion kits are available for the DIY crowd, and the less mechanically-inclined can have professionals give their car biodiesel capability. But what if you want an electric car? A Colorado co...

The world's greenest building might soon be located in the pioneer town of Independence, Oregon. Independence Station--a 57,000 square foot mixed use facility--is on track to receive the highest LEED rating ever awarded when it is completed in 2010.  The structure, being built by Aldeia Development...

It's hard to convince people to purchase carbon offsets in the current economic climate, but Hotwire may have figured out a way to do it. The discount travel site will pay half of its customers' carbon offsets purchased through a new program with Terrapass....

Out of a total of over 22 presidential inaugural balls, two will be officially "green". In fact, both green balls have been named the Green Inaugural Ball....