Sustainability

With Earth Day’s recent passing, communities came together to focus on what they can do to help the planet. But several groups in the Reno-Tahoe area make it their year-round mission to reduce environmental impact. Here are some of the dynamic ways different organizations are caring for the planet.

Americans are increasing their focus on health and the environment, and there’s a growing market for sustainable home-building materials – like insulation.

A local nonprofit called Envirolution recently won a $20,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Northern Nevada to support sustainability training for teachers.

Several thousand people came together in Elko over the weekend to celebrate the 36th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. Folklife aficionados came…

It's spring and that means our farmer's markets will be opening up again soon. Meanwhile, a new approach to local food is bringing fresh veggies to the…

A broad coalition of community stakeholders is coming together to promote an ambitious plan for the Truckee River.The public-private partnership is called…

Nevada is ranked one of the top states in the country for LEED-certified green buildings - a program that encourages environmentally friendly building…

To boost its efforts to go green, Reno has hired a new sustainability manager. To learn more, our reporter Julia Ritchey caught up with their new…

The CDC has been sounding the alarm about the link between antibiotics in meat and antibiotic resistance in humans, but a new report finds that…

Sustainability is an essential aspect of today’s buildings and systems -- along with being an important way of operating and living today -- and the…