A Brooklyn-based design studio turns to digital animation to generate the patterns for these striking rugs made out of recycled carpet pieces.

Forget about wood furniture, we are all tied up in knots about rope.

Can new colors refresh an old rug? These Dutch designers think so -- and they prefer red, to emphasize the problem of waste.

These unique, handcrafted rugs are made to emulate the look and feel of moss, grass, snow and sand, for enjoyment at home.

A report from GAIA reveals how old carpets go straight to landfill or get burned because many manufacturers haven't developed closed-loop production.

These textile works of art are bursting with soft corals, algae and more.

Rule #1: Never let it get soaking wet!

Despite their endless commuting, ants don't have traffic jams, regardless of the width of their path.

Meanwhile, cars and trucks keep getting bigger and higher. It's time to do something.

Was it the Uber car, the safety driver, the victim, or the traffic engineers who designed that road?

So much of the economy changes if cars last five times as long and hardly need service.

But what is the best criterion?

Distracted driving isn't just caused by cellphones.

The Toronto Star's list is useful but incomplete.

So much for the "sharing economy". North Americans don't like sharing cars or parking spaces.

Researchers looking at the question come up with some good ideas.

The only things that ever seems to affect SUV and pickup sales are the economy and the price of gas.

Canoo redesigns the electric car from the ground up. It redesigns the ownership model too.

It will be electric, autonomous and shared. Where have we heard that before?

He wants data? We've got data. And if it saves just one life.....

Not only that, they are "argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic." And all men.

A Tesla won't get a camel through the eye of a needle.

We don't have time for purity tests.

Greta Thunberg, Margaret Atwood, Michael Mann, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Bill McKibben, George Monbiot and more make the case.

It's a curious reversal of the farm-to-table movement.

We can't keep building useless things like this.

Put down that burger and get out your bike. Things are getting serious.

Evidently natural gas has a clean image that is being threatened by reality.

Some question if it is even possible.

Or are they just fooling themselves and being selfish?

They have always been controversial, and they may well be counterproductive.

With a carbon credit card, it doesn't have to be hard.

We are going to try and live the 2.5 Tonne Diet.

A lotta lentils.

More on why our personal consumption habits matter in the climate emergency.

It is time we stopped cooking and heating with methane, a climate problem from source to stovetop.

Do we have the political will to do what has to be done? Simon Kuper doesn't think so. I do.

A secret deal lets the homebuilders dominate the committees that write the building codes for housing.

I was disappointed to see that Subaru, beloved of TreeHugger types, is on the wrong side of this issue.

The rock band won't be touring its newest album until it can figure out a greener way of doing it.

They say it reduces CO2 emissions by 80 percent. Does it really?

"Give the future, not presents."

Imagine a bucket of greenhouse gases that's almost full.

It's about time more cities did this.

Part of a series where I try to calculate the carbon footprint of my life.

Instead of flaring off gas, they are burning it to run computers that mine bitcoins. Is this any better?

But I have it easy compared to most North Americans, and perhaps am fooling myself.

Switch to a planet-friendly diet this year, and show others how it can be done.

Climate Caretakers offers a 7-week guide to reducing your carbon footprint.

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost everybody is living a low carbon lifestyle.