ASHEVILLE—M R Gardens in the Oakley community of Asheville is offering tours of the nursery’s one-of-a-kind passive solar greenhouse, designed for the production of plants using nearly all renewable ...

NEW LONDON -- What may be the best classroom ever built comes with a floor of stones, welded furniture and plenty of dirt. What the students of the New London-Spicer High School learn in their new, ...

SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: Megan Riley of M R Gardens stands in front of her 800-square-foot passive solar greenhouse in Oakley. Photo by Vickie Burick The paradox of commercial greenhouses has always ...

If you take a walk down the 1700 block of Wylie Street in Francisville, you’ll notice two things: a gated senior community and an urban farm with some unfinished construction. That area will be site ...

Philadelphia will soon be getting its very first passive solar greenhouse thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Whole Cities Foundation. RELATED ARTICLES After a three-year search, South Philly Food Co-op ...

What if you could have dropped in on Steve Jobs' garage while he tinkered and built the first Apple computers? Thirty-six students in the Youth Energy Summit! program did something of the sort: They ...

A greenhouse is a great way to raise your own plants and produce. They work, in part, by using the sun's rays and the natural greenhouse effect to create a warm, humid environment in which many plants ...

Wrapped in his coat, Matt Braverman stood beside the earthen bags, his tools slung across the earthen floor. The rotting husks of summer’s garden clung to the fence – sunflowers frozen in a winter ...

The author’s home boasts numerous large south-facing windows that enable passive solar heating of the entire house, even in single-digit temps. In the early 1980s, an American energy crisis had passed ...

"Sustainability first inspired me to go into the agricultural field more than 15 years ago," Riley said. "But greenhouses aren't always energy efficient. If not designed carefully, they can use a lot ...