Let’s start with some common sense: Covering the Earth with plastic carpet is a terrible idea. And yet we continue to cover an ever-growing swath of our public and private open spaces with artificial ...

I love to garden, but I’m not much of a mower. It’s monotonous, and when it’s 110 degrees outside, I usually spend the time fantasizing about ripping up all the grass and planting cacti and rocks. But ...

Patti Wood, executive director of Grassroots Environmental Education, based in Port Washington, was pivotal several years ago to the rejection in a referendum in Sag Harbor of its school district’s ...