Environmental Fibers International

Portland is among a growing list of cities instituting climate and sustainability plans of their own.

When the green flag waves in a Sprint Cup race, 43 cars begin belching exhaust full-bore. The man in charge of spearheading stock car racing's push to shed its gas-guzzling image realizes that's what many might say passes for a green initiative in...

The American League champion Yankees have had a winning season in more ways than one, as this is their first year playing in the highly eco-friendly new Yankee Stadium. The franchise is working toward sustainability in its business practices, ballpark operations and more.

Want to increase recycling and decrease the amount of trash reaching our landfills? Innovative companies are incentivizing recycling through the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) technolog

As of Wednesday, the city is requiring residents to discard food waste in a separate bin. The food waste will be turned into compost and sold to farms and vineyards. Residents are so pleased about the law that many have been complying ahead of its start date.

If you keep private documents around your home or office, or toss them in the trash, you're just asking to become a fraud victim. No wonder shredding parties are rising in popularity.

Just about every evening for the past six months, David Fisher has come home from his work as an industrial project manager, grabbed Aana, his 3-year-old Weimaraner, and headed out in his aluminum jet sled on Portland's run of the Willamette River.His target isn't fish. ...

ReCORK America, a wine cork recycling program, has partnered with SOLE, a Canadian footwear maker, to divert cork from landfills.

Desiree Rutherford calls herself one of the lucky ones. She attends the only natural resources program in Portland Public Schools.You might think a city that touts its green reputation at the drop of a ...

New Yorkers are still tossing out more than half the stuff they should be recycling, managing to go green only 42% of the time.

Pleasanton News is the online version of the print edition by the same name.

REXVILLE, Wash. -- It takes slightly more than three gallons of liquid cow manure to create one kilowatt-hour of electricity.A lot of poop. A small amount of electricity. A big environmental boost to a dairy farmer. ...

LOS ANGELES -- A tawny stuffed puppy bobs in cold sea water, his four stiff legs tangled in the green net of some nameless fisherman.