Surplus food from grocery stores cannot be donated or eaten, so typically, it all ends up in a landfill. But a brand-new program at the Chicago area grocery store chain Mariano's is changing that — ...

Twenty miles south of Boise, crews at the city compost farm are bracing for the busy season. “Grass season,” as compost program director Lisa Knapp calls it, means bag after bag of lawn clippings and ...

Moving to New York can be a culture shock. When Liz French decamped from Indiana to Long Island City, Queens, in 1989—well before it was a trendy place to live—she was sad to learn she’d lost access ...