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The arrival of autumn means cooler temperatures, darker evenings -- and a last chance to get your home ready for winter. Here are twelve ways to get started!

Want to cut your back-to-school budget in half? It all starts with finding quality used clothing. Here's where to start in your community.

Compost's job is to rot -- to decompose and become next season's topsoil. What happens along the way is either beautiful or disgusting, depending on your viewpoint.

Nothing to sneeze at: Paper products giant Kimberly-Clark agrees to initiatives making Kleenex and other brands more eco-friendly.

Thinking about a healthier, greener -- and car free -- lifestyle? It can be done. But picking the right bicycle helps. Here are some choices to get you started.

Here's someone who took "getting out into nature" to a new level. Christoph Rehage set out on a nearly 3,000 mile walk -- filming an amazing video on the way.

The best of the links we shared on Twitter this week: Putting the cap back on bottled water; bicycle mutilation; and an unfortunately named coal power plant.

Heard about urban homesteading? If not, you aren't alone. Meet Everett Sizemore and Melissa Blakeslee, who are living a new lifestyle as suburban pioneers.

Lighter Footstep hosts the 190th edition of Carnival of The Green. Browse a great collection of articles submitted by some of the Green web’s top writers.

NOAA scientists warn the 2009 El Niño is looking more and more like the severe event of 2005. And that spells big trouble for the world's coral reef systems.