I felt a sense of calm I hadn’t experienced since I’d suffered a miscarriage, on the morning of my 35th birthday.

Thoreau’s “garden” is making a comeback—as Freshkills Park.

Mary Wagstaff and her friends started surfing weekly; since the youngest was 50, they called themselves OBOB, or Old Broads on Boards.

Emily Kerr connects coffee connoisseurs with small-scale organic farms in the Dominican Republic. The result? A brew that makes everyone’s lives a little richer.

For Lynn Jurich, living in polluted Shanghai was an environmental wake-up call. Now she’s helping bring clean power to its inhabitants with her ambitious new company.

The auto garage gets a clean, green makeover, thanks to a forward-thinking entrepreneur.

By carrying on family tradition, Sara Vivenzio also reinvented her career.