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Artists installed a grass carpet through a French town to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its arts and nature trail programs.

A Jordanian permaculture teacher is exploring the intersect between environmentalism and spirituality. Her work could take permaculture mainstream in the Middle East.

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

Could it be that more efficient lighting means less coal being dug to power it?

It's an interesting art installation that brings some attention to an electrifying man.

Starting in 1936 they wired the entire country, the houses, the tools and the farms, changing America. It is time to think big and do it again.

Microsoft decided that a good way to advertise its cloud-based Office 365 software would be to actually put a T-Mobile wifi router with 15 days of free wifi inside a magazine advert.

E-waste is a big problem, but there is also a counter-trend that helps fight it.

A new report card from the Electronics TakeBack Coaltion shows how each retailer stacks up when it comes to recycling the merchandise they sell us.

Critics have been quick to say that Phonebloks isn't realistic with the current market. What they are missing is that this is the entire point of the project. Phonebloks aims to alter the present, but re-imagining the future.

The innovation could mean less e-waste at the end of our electronics' lives.

By reclaiming precious metals from its 'urban mine' of obsolete electronics, Japan may be able to produce the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from recycled materials.

And the Oatmeal says " I'm ready for our army of Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots."

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.

These may be limited to 25 MPH, but the era of autonomous cars is coming at us really fast.

The optical display device that is often the subject of ridicule has proven itself to be a very valuable asset to surgeons.

Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.

The prime minister also mentioned holding companies responsible for the packaging waste they create.

A Canadian scientist wants us to rethink our approach to plastic and challenge the colonial system that produces it.

What's more fun than riding with 25,000 people through car-free streets on a beautiful day (and night)?

All work and no play? Here's a work space with some playful humor built in.

They do this so well in Montreal.

Let's hope they play nicely with government-funded cargo bikes.

Now how about some incentives to get people out of cars?

For Monsanto, superweeds are just another selling point for its products.

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.

Docked electric cars can be worse than dockless scooters for pedestrians, but the UEone is a step in the right direction.

Melinda Hanson talks to TreeHugger about taking back the streets.

Almost every time we post something on the meat debate we get a slew of emotional comments from readers that sit on either side. The vegan side was backed up by sustainable food icon Michael

If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow

Recommended reading from two of America's biggest food writers.

Tom Laskawy warns we shouldn't confuse the two.

They are everywhere, the full page ads with smiling people proud of how much money they saved and how they qualified for all those government grants. But what did they really save? Perhaps a bit of energy, but how much?

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought

Do we need hyperloops? No, we need trains that work.

Wikipedia carries a definition of Arabbers which includes this:An arabber (or a-rab) is a

What started in Maryland is spreading. A running club with zombies that chase you. It's about survival of the fittest.

Really, this trend should be nipped in the bud.

Yes, slavery is still legal.

The leader of the Catholic Church used his strongest language yet to call for 'decisive action, here and now.'

photo: J. Novak Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on

Now you can get your morning coffee fix celebrity-style, thanks to an alliance between Leonardo DiCaprio and LaColumbe coffee -- plus, all proceeds support sustainable initiatives.

Breadfruit trees planted by Trees That Feed Foundation are creating food systems and jobs in Jamaica.

Number of storms predicted per year during the period 1854 -- 2006 versus numbers actually observed for the Atlantic (filled diamonds). The model predictions (grey curve) have been normalized to the data. A quadratic fit to the model is shown for

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

PNC Financial Services Group, based in Pittsburgh PA, has built a plant-covered exterior wall, "to make its headquarters building more energy-efficient." Looking like one of those huge billboards seen along an

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost

We love products that support or revive traditional crafts. Check out, for ex ample, the work of Kallari, fair trade suppliers of traditional Amazonian baskets, which we reported on here. Now we've come across another cool basket supplier, this time

It's happening all over, and wood construction can make it even easier and faster.