Go Green!

How to Make a Solar-Powered Oven for Outdoor Cooking

Take outdoor cooking to the next level with this homemade solar cooker.

How to Build a Purple Martin House To Attract Bug-Eating Birds

Build a two-family Purple Martin bird house and you can attract these bug-eating birds to your yard.

Six Projects to Make With Recycled Plastic Bottles and Jugs

Recycle empty plastic bottles and jugs and turn them into fun and useful projects.

How to Make a Platform Bird Feeder

This simple bird feeder makes an ample platform for serving a flock of seed eaters.

How to Make Twig Pencils

Twig pencils are fun, easy and cheap to make. And the expressions on your friends’ faces when you start scribbling with a stick will be writetious!

How to build a worm bed to start a small worm farm

Do you wish you could dig money out of the ground? Raising worms in a worm bed can be a lucrative business.

Make a Solar Hot Dog Cooker

If you curve some aluminum foil just right, you can cook hot dogs with the sun's heat.

How to Plant a Compact Vegetable Garden

You can grow lots of food in a small space by placing plants close together in squares instead of traditional rows.

Make a compost tumbler

Here's how to tumble your way to rich compost for your garden and plants.

How to build a rain barrel for collecting rainwater

Conserve water by collecting rainwater and using it for your garden or lawn.

What you’re doing to Go Green!

Conservation and responsible outdoorsmanship is a huge part of being a Scout. Here are some of the things that Boyslife.org readers have told us they are doing or plan to do to GO GREEN!

BL Go Green Heroes

Throughout the year, Boys' Life has profiled those who are making a difference for the environment. Read about these Go Green! heroes.

The Earth-friendly community of the future

Welcome to the green, Earth-friendly community of the future. For the past seven months, we have told you how to Go Green! Here's what our world might look like once we have all gone green. Imagine the possibilities.

Hot Spot

Feeling a little warm lately? The 10 hottest years in recorded history have occurred since 1991. 2005 topped the charts. And animals are feeling the heat.

Make a “10,000-Year-Old” Lamp Shade

Cave paintings have been around for thousands of years. Light up your own bedroom "cave" with this torn-paper lamp shade.

Go! Green Team

The sports world is playing a more Earth-friendly game.

How to start a hydroponic garden

Plants don't need soil as long as they have five things: food, water, light, air and support. You can provide all five in a hydroponic garden. Here's how to create your own.

Thinking Outside the Recycling Box

Wait! Don't just throw that bottle in the recycling bin. You could use it to build your own private island. Across the globe, people are coming up with remarkable -- and sometimes zany -- new ways to help our environment. Here are some of our favorites.

From Sea to Not-so-Shining Sea

Mouth-watering seafood. Beach and water adventure. A convenient, vast waste dump. Oceans have provided us many things over the centuries, but we are pushing them beyond their limits. Here’s a look at what’s going on in our oceans and how you can help.