New York - city of youth, energy, and fast-paced life - has now focused on its growing population of elderly residents.

School gardens in the US give students healthier lunches and soil under their fingernails

A vegetable garden on a Brooklyn rooftop produces healthy vegetables and encourages social cohesion.

A new park fulfils its function as a much sought after green area in the Big Apple

A building that incorporates some of the best of today’s sustainable technologies, notably the eco-machine wastewater treatment concept, has been created in Rhinebeck of the US.

New York is leading the way in tidal energy harvesting with the first use of an innovative new turbine system and a plan to install two large-scale farms in the East Hudson River.

In Copenhagen, pocket parks are a tool to create small open spaces with a drop of green providing a refuge from the bustle of urban life, while improving the urban climate.

An increasing demand for fish for consumption creates a risk for over-fishing in the oceans all over the world. Indoor fish farms can be an answer to this food crisis.