C reatively repurposing art and craft materials has a long history. But an early pioneer of this type of creative reuse center emerged in San Francisco in the 1970s.Artists seeking supplies for ...

T he Colorado River once fanned across the Yuma Valley, lined by craggy volcanic peaks. Seasonal muddy torrents spread water and nutrient-rich sediments across the floodplain. Ribbons of green spread ...

U nadorned houses and gray sidewalk slabs line the street of the Katendrechtse Lagendijk neighborhood. Here in the Charlois district in the south of the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, the dreariness is ...

This story has been co-published by Reasons to be Cheerful and the Outrider Foundation.. F or centuries, tall sailing ships quietly navigated the planet’s waterways, trading and delivering needed ...

A sweater mended by Kate Sekules. Credit: Kate Sekules. Volunteering at the SHRUB Cooperative, which is working to reduce waste in Edinburgh, she learned about the high carbon impact of textiles — ...

A ccording to the National Golf Foundation, there were almost four million fewer golfers in 2024 than in 2003.The cost to operate a private golf club can be as much as $1 million annually, and with ...

This is part two of a two-part series on ways that coal infrastructure is being repurposed to meet the needs of renewable energy. Read part one here.. For four decades, the Oklaunion Power Plant has ...

T he towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters and ...

The stretch of the river that runs through Sepulveda Basin is open to kayakers. Credit: US Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District. The river has become a hotbed of dreams and expensive plans, ...

The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project has been underway since 2003. Credit: Cris Benton. The Hopi tribe’s 2,000-year-old dry farming method allows them to grow a wide range of crops in an area ...

A t 7 a.m., Nairobi’s Giga Kitchen almost resembles an 18th-century factory in the midst of the Industrial Revolution. Giant steam-powered cookers churn out great clouds of mist as troops of workers ...

There are also practical challenges. Generators aren’t cheap, retailing at big box stores for more than $1,000. Once initial fuel supplies run out — as happened in parts of Western North Carolina in ...