HBO has turned its attention to a huge health problem: Obesity and its enormous economic, emotional, social, and health cost on individuals, families, communities, and the country at large.

A massive liquid battery could provide electricity storage on a scale useful to major electric utilities—allowing them to store energy whenever it’s available and cheap, and then pump it back into the grid when it’s most needed.

Many cities in the US have unlikely outlaws—people raising chickens in their backyards, while outmoded laws to the contrary remain on the books.

The California Committee for the Right to Know is pushing hard to make a deadline of April 22, 2012 to gather 800,000 physical signatures to qualify this landmark initiative for the 2012 California Ballot.

Two engineers from Google have produced as astounding personal art project called the Wind Map. It is a live visual demonstration of wind patterns in the United States.

Local food economies are starting to happen and make sense for larger cities. But it’s ironic because the rural areas that used to produce so much food are now the slowest to adopt these local food pursuits.

At this year's Natural Products Expo West, documentary director Jeffrey Seifert played an excerpt from his upcoming film about GMOs, inspired by Haitian farmers who destroyed Monsanto's donation of 475 tons of genetically modified seeds after the 2010 earthquake.

This child's experiment of growing sweet potato vines turned into an object lesson in organics.

Mary Mazzio's latest film, The Apple Pushers, follows the lives of five New York City street produce vendors bringing fresh produce to virtual “food deserts”—and creating amazing new lives for themselves in the process.