Learning Gate Community School composts and recycles its trash, grows vegetables organically and waters shrubs with rainwater collected in barrels. ...more

March 17, 2009

Countryside Montessori Elementary officials are hoping the school's Green Schoolyard Project will help students gain a better appreciation for the differences they can make in the environment. ...more

February 11, 2009

Countryside Montessori Elementary officials are hoping the Green Schoolyard Project will help students gain a better appreciation for the differences they can make in the local environment. ...more

February 4, 2009

State environmental officials will wait one more month to issue a decision on a controversial landfill proposed for eastern Pasco County. ...more

January 14, 2009

Concerned about the city's water supply, city council members are scheduled to vote today on whether to oppose a Pasco County landfill planned near the Hillsborough River, Tampa's main source of drinking water. ...more

December 18, 2008

Beau bolted toward a squirrel that wandered into his field of vision, then stood proudly on all fours as he watched the terrified rodent dart over a fence. ...more

October 18, 2008

Regional water managers are spending a half million dollars researching whether Hillsborough County should inject millions of gallons of treated wastewater into the vast underground lake known as the Floridan Aquifer. ...more

September 23, 2008

The above-average rainfall of this summer is supposed to help fill Tampa Bay Water's C.W. Bill Young Reservoir in Hillsborough County. Instead, it is posing problems. The reservoir's soil-cement lining, which is designed to control erosion, is cracking. So are the patches. ...more

August 15, 2008

Michael and Denise Pfalzer's new home will have walls made of old car tires, recycled bottles and cans. ...more

July 21, 2008

The retention pond along Curry Drive has been a magnet for thrill seekers. ...more

July 17, 2008