On their way across North Carolina, Perennial Plate stopped to chat with some Native American farmers trying to change the food and work situation in their communities.

Coal generation keeps falling faster than government predictions, which don’t even account for other factors affecting its decline. Could the reign of coal finally be over?

They may not be perfect, but the new school meal standards will bring more whole grains and fruits and vegetables into the nation’s schools.

Overwhelming majorities of Americans support clean energy. The issue is an electoral winner for Democrats if they quit playing defense and go on the attack.

A new report on the use of a growth-promoting drug in pork production — and its impact on international trade — is just the tip of the iceberg for the Food and Environment Reporting Network.

Armed with suggestions from readers, Grist’s green-living pioneer went back to the trash bins in search of sustenance. This time, she emerged with a spread fit for a king.

A new study finds that retrofitting old buildings is almost always more eco-friendly than building new ones, and provides the most immediate bang for the buck in the fight against climate change. The implication: Save old cities and we might spare the planet as well.

Cooking with small amounts of meat is a great way to explore flavors and eat more sustainably. As part of our Protein Angst series, here are five recipes that utilize meat as more of a condiment than the main event.

During the State of the Union, I was watching for whether the president would back down on clean energy in the face of coordinated GOP assault. He did not. Instead, he doubled down.

An international group of scientists have taken to the pages of Science magazine to ask climate negotiators to stop ignoring agriculture.

On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters led by Bill McKibben donned referee uniforms to call foul on Congress and demand that they quit trying to win the game for Big Oil in overtime.

Clean energy rocks. Nice people get jobs at wind-turbine plants. Oil-industry subsidies suck. We need to drill, baby, drill. And we need to frack, baby, frack. That’s the takeaway from the State of the Union.

In his State of the Union address tonight, Obama will try to convince the right that he loooves fossil fuels, despite his Keystone XL decision. As if going on the defensive has worked before.

Newt Gingrich defied cynicism and tapped into voter anger to win South Carolina. That’s what it will take to achieve large-scale climate solutions, too.

Chris Paine, director of the documentaries “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and “Revenge of the Electric Car,” chatted with Grist readers.