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Monterrey, Mexico

The Tree Growing Inside a 7-Eleven

This store may be part of a well-known chain, but it stands out due to the tree growing through the middle of it.
A place setting at Blue Hill at Stone Barns includes Moore's bone china water cup and plate as well as a charger made from soil.
restaurants

The Artist Turning Bones Into Beautiful Dishware

Gregg Moore uses 18th-century techniques to transform a restaurant's leftovers into bone china.
Rebecca L. Rhoades January 17, 2025
National Public Radio's Honey Bee Hives
List

America’s Green City: 9 Sustainable Spots You Should Visit in Washington, DC

Aquatic gardens, curious critters, and bike paths abound.
100% farm to table fresh brunch – burrata, pesto and heirloom tomatoes on toast.
Itinerary

A Gastro Obscura Guide to Los Cabos

If you’re looking for an abundance of farm-to-table dining and a culinary scene committed to sustainability, Los Cabos delivers.
Carefully selecting house-grown veggies for diners at Farm & Market.
restaurants

If Mother Nature Could Dine in Denver, This is Where She’d Eat

From carbon-neutral brewing to responsible fishing, these nine establishments are spearheading a greener Denver food scene.
Can the famous greenhouse get greener?
botanical gardens

Kew Gardens Is Undergoing a Big, Steamy Change

Fitted PJs, new glasses, and a good drilling will keep this Victorian icon hot.
Daniel Shailer February 20, 2024
In the American West, preventing wildfires is becoming all the more crucial. Meet one of the helpers.
nasa

Why NASA Is Watching Where Idaho’s Parachuting Beavers Landed

The mini-paratroopers have a new role to play today.
Danielle Hallock January 25, 2024
Coffee flour makes for decadent pancakes.
food

Fight Food Waste With Unusual Flours

Add something extra to your baking.
Andrew Coletti January 15, 2024
Frivolity is the mother of invention.
trees

Toilet Brushes Are Partly to Thank for Artificial Christmas Trees

And other strange evergreen decor evolutions, from retro-kitsch to glow-in-the-dark.
Kathy Adams December 19, 2023
Manatí, Puerto Rico

Frutos del Guacabo

This sustainable, family-run farm just outside of San Juan makes for a dreamy daytrip.
Manchester, England

Tower of Light

When the city of Manchester built a new centralized heating network, they did it with style.
Wisconsin's Wolf River, which flows through the Menominee Indian Reservation, where Indigenous traditions guide sustainable forestry.
forests

In Wisconsin, the Menominee Tribe's Sustainable Forestry Is Visible From Space

The Menominee Tribe's tradition of doing "what's best for the forest" has become a global model for sustainability.
Fred Pearce September 11, 2023
abandoned

Haunted Stays and Autumn Days in Colorado

There’s so much to love about fall in Colorado, some people never leave.
An asiatic subspecies of cheetah once roamed India. Efforts to reintroduce the animal there threaten the traditional sustainable harvest of salai trees.
forests

India's Cheetah Reintroduction Threatens an Indigenous Tradition

Behind the headlines of the animals' rocky return, a displaced community struggles to access trees they have tended for generations.
Tanvi Dutta Gupta August 3, 2023
Chef John Fleer at Old North Acres
restaurants

How Community Makes Appalachian Cuisine Shine in Asheville

It takes a village—or in this case, a chef and a bevy of passionate farmers and producers.
The interior of the shop is crammed with sustainably sourced chocolates.
Lima, Peru

El Cacaotal

Visit Lima’s one-stop-shop for sustainably sourced and produced Peruvian chocolate.
Saturn
Washington, D.C.

American Geophysical Union Sidewalk Planet Display

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.
Hotel WHY is constructed from recycled materials
Kamikatsu, Japan

Zero-Waste Hotel WHY

In a rural Japanese town that has committed to sustainable practices, even the hotel is made from recycled materials.