Have a Green Day Twenty-four ways you can help the planet, from how you wake yourself up in the morning to how you get drunk at night.
By Mick Dumke
April 17, 2008

The Plastic Plague Even China has found ways to deal with the glut of plastic shopping bags. When will Chicago get it together? Plus: What you need to know about plastic bags now
By Mick Dumke
March 6, 2008

Critical Mass Under mounting pressure from citizens, can Chicago come up with a recycling plan that actually works?
By Mick Dumke
October 25, 2007

Greenish Is Daley the environmentalist of the decade? We'll see.
By Mick Dumke
September 22, 2006

The Awful Truth About Recycling in Chicago If you think the Blue Bag program stinks, you should see what happens to the other 75 percent of the city’s garbage.
By Mick Dumke
July 21, 2006

Horto in Urbs The first garden show ever for people with no room to garden.
By Harold Henderson
May 12, 2006

They Need It. We Waste It. The powers that control the Great Lakes are fortifying the ramparts for the day the west runs out of water. The Chicago River is the chink in our armor.
By Michael Miner
January 13, 2006

Running on Water Debra Shore thinks the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District could be key to the future of the region and the environment. That's why she's raising real money to win an office most candidates barely campaign for.
By Christopher Hayes
October 28, 2005

Meet the Beetles In northwest Indiana, a plan to control the invasive weed purple loosestrife.
By Harold Henderson
June 3, 2005

Don't Call It a Cleanup The Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge five million cubic yards of toxic mud out of the Indiana Harbor Canal. But five million cubic yards of toxic mud on land becomes five million yards of toxic dirt.
By Harold Henderson
January 21, 2005

The Extinction Express While Madagascar teeters on the edge of an ecological catastrophe, Field Museum biologist Steve Goodman does what he can to save the remains.
By Harold Henderson
February 13, 2004

Something in the Air Pollution from two power plants on the near south side causes dozens of premature deaths and thousands of asthma attacks a year, say Harvard researchers. So why has a city ordinance that would require a cleanup been mired in committee for more than a year?
By Kari Lydersen
March 28, 2003

What Have We Done? A look at our impact on nature in Illinois--both good and bad--chronicles the unavoidable clash between those who seek to save the wilderness and those who seek to subdue it.
By Harold Henderson
October 25, 2002

How to Buy a Cleaner Planet It's so crazy, it just might work: letting industry pay for the right to pollute.
By Harold Henderson
May 7, 1999

Close Deep Tunnel The architects at Bridgeport's UrbanLab have a better plan.
By Harold Henderson
May 11, 2007

Follow That Draft You turn off the lights when you leave the room, you keep the thermostat at 65, and you just spent a few grand on storm windows. But your home may still be hemorrhaging energy. These guys can help.
By Harold Henderson
February 3, 2006

The Future in a Box? A UN project with outposts in Chicago says this plastic container just might solve some of the world's biggest problems. At the very least it'll grow you some killer tomatoes.
By Martha Bayne
January 20, 2006

She Just Wants to Wide The inaugural voyage of Illinois' first registered Twike.
By Tori Marlan
April 29, 2005

How Much Green Does It Take to Go Green? This obsessive environmentalist rehab has cost $1.5 million so far, but it's powered by thinkng that can adapt to almost any budget.
By Harold Henderson
March 18, 2005

Elements of Style Getting a charge out of a solar bag.
By Tori Marlan
July 25, 2003

How Green Can You Get? From the succulents growing on the roof to the vegetable oil in the elevator's hydraulic system, the city's new Center for Green Technology is doing everything it can to be nice to Mother Nature--within reason.
By Harold Henderson
May 3, 2002

Circuit Breaker John Berton Cuts the Cord to Com Ed
By Tori Marlan
November 19, 1999

Pie in the Sky? With demand for organics outstripping supply, is it possible to run a completely organic restaurant and still make money? Michael Altenberg thinks he has the answer--and it's pizza.
By Nicholas Day
March 9, 2007

Eat Local Our guide to subscription farms.
By Vera Videnovich
March 9, 2007

Cheese Whizzes A new video digs into Wisconsin's increasingly sophisticated cheese culture.
By Martha Bayne
July 28, 2006

The Misfit Farmer John Peterson didn't get along with his neighbors, but he refused to move even after he practically lost the family farm. Now he runs a successful organic farming operation--and his neighbors still don't like him much.
By Harold Henderson
January 20, 2006

Tramping for Ramps Hunting for Chicagoland's wild onion.
By Harold Henderson
April 8, 2005

Slow Food in the Slow Lane Washington Island, WI: A hotel on Door County's Washington Island fertilizes local agriculture and industry.
By Martha Bayne
April 30, 2004

A Greener Peapod Fresh Picks delivers farm-fresh groceries--and not just veggies--to your door.
By Anne Ford
March 9, 2007

The Pear Angel At the Green City Market, Oriana Kruszewski sells mind-blowing hand-tended Asian varieties at produce-stand prices.
By Mike Sula
November 10, 2006

Bounty Hunter With the explosion of interest in homegrown produce, finding enough farmers to supply our markets has become a full-time job.
By Nicholas Day
January 20, 2006

The Heirloom Tomato of Turkeys Slow Food hopes to sell you on heritage turkeys.
By Nicholas Day
November 11, 2005

Organic: It Means Whatever the Feds Say It Does The National Organic Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture stirred up a hornet's nest over the term.
By Harold Henderson
July 16, 2004

Beyond the Buzz Slow Foodists and the search for the perfect rib.
By Mike Sula
April 16, 2004