Sustainable Living

Huge, hulking glaciers and smaller floating icebergs cover giant swaths of the planet's surface - around one tenth of the world - and are found in over 35 different countries.

Meet Tim Meyers, who has been growing organic food on 17 acres of permafrost for his hometown of Bethel, Alaska for the past six years.

As natural disasters occur with more force and frequency, an energy grid based on electricity has begun to look quite tenuous. America is forced to look at its dangerous reliance on refrigeration.

In theory, farmers should be poster children for the locavore movement. They have fridges and fields (or home gardens, in the case of some larger farms) stuffed with gorgeous produ...

While high-end prosthetics are advancing by leaps and bounds, devices that can hold up to farming remain elusive.

The idea comes from Professor Jack Schultz at the University of Missouri, who earned a brief mention in Michael Pollan's amazing article on plant intelligence in the New Yorker.

1. No Farm Bill at Year's End

How one Wall Street guy tried to take over the maple syrup market.

He's not kidding: The competition for the United States' $1 billion Christmas tree industry is fierce. Each year farmers who sell directly to customers must go head to head with tr...