The machines are popping up at grocery stores in Norway.

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

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

The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.

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

The Canadian province is overhauling its recycling program, which would include holding producers accountable for their wasteful packaging designs.

This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.

One of the biggest challenges of making cities more bike friendly is that most of the road space is already "used up." Adding bike lanes means removing something. That's when a bit of perspective comes in handy.

This architecture and engineering design used to be all the rage. What happened?

A new study shows that in fact, if you build them, people use them and drive less.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

Big Auto is increasingly coming up against Big Tech.

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

When reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the Environmental Protection Agency considered just five independent studies, and 27 industry-funded studies.

Batteries recycled from old LEAFs run the refrigeration equipment in this all-electric truck.

Micromobility can solve the last mile problem and reduce carbon emissions.

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

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's News21 program and Good Magazine have shortlisted the three finalists in a competition to design a better food label. They "asked for designs that were informative, instructive and

By controlling portion size and refusing to overeat, particularly in restaurants, we can reduce food waste and remind ourselves of the true value of food.

Michael Pollan weighs in on what he calls a "national eating disorder."

Energy Star is regarded by consumers as one of the most reliable raters of electronics and appliances in terms of knowing how much energy a device consumes. The organization continually raises the bar (little by little, but still raises) on energy

Images: Black & Decker Here in the southeast, my front lawn is already starting to perk up in response to intimations of spring. Those handsome green blades of fescue are yawning, stretching, and preparing to greet the season with exuberant,

Of course the balance between environmental impact and personal

The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being made in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades.

The information is pretty basic but it's not trivial, and would make a difference.

If every home in the U.S. switched just one inefficient light for an Energy Star one, that would be equivalent to taking 800,000 vehicles off the road in term of greenhouse gas emissions

With Oxford Dictionary’s addition of the verb 'MacGyver' to the official lexicon, we pay homage to the almighty hack.

The Right to Repair movement is rapidly growing – and it can't come soon enough.

I'm going to let Josh Tulkin speak mostly for himself on this one, but here's the thumbnail sketch of the situation: Tulkin received a latter from the Maryland State Police informing him that from March 2005 to May 2006 Tulkin was under

Image credit: UMBI Center of Marine Biotechnology Fully Contained, Indoor Fish Farming Update: Karin has reported on this initiative before under Fish Farming Moves to the Condos, and Lloyd also covered it under the Future of Food. Great to see it still

Not waiting for national legislation to set a price on carbon and kickstart the journey to a low-carbon future, Montgomery County, Maryland has enacted one the country's first carbon taxes. Passed by a vote of 8-to-1 the tax

I can't stop thinking about Natasha Pettigrew. She was 30 years old, a Green Party candidate for Senator in Maryland, and killed this month in the early morning hours by being struck from behind by a woman in an SUV. The driver did not stop, dragged

Residents in southern Maryland have long felt like they live in an 'energy sacrifice zone.' They already have a nuclear power plant and now are trying to stop a liquid natural gas port.

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

Designer Matt Kovaleski integrates a solar power system into a picnic table setup for workers at Vice

A traditional dwelling has been preserved by renovating it to include a new office, library, kitchen and guest room.

Blouin Tardif Architectes do a beautiful adaptive reuse and addition in Montreal.

A growing number of environmentalists are re-envisioning 'disaster relief' as something that can provide hope for the future, not just a hot meal and somewhere to sleep. Their tool of choice? Permaculture.

Cornell students and Toronto company figure out how to upcycle old clothes on an industrial scale.

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

There are so many missing teeth, so many vacant lots in so much of rust belt North America. We showed how Superkül took back a sketchy main street store in Toronto for their live/work space; Now Azure Magazine shows us how

Climate action is about to get radical.

He's not exactly treating it like a crisis. But at least he's doing something...

We are never going to switch to electric cars in time to make a difference. That's why we have to get out of our cars and walk.

Provoked by questionable propaganda, a group of scientists is setting out to offer an antidote.

Seriously ...

In 2007, villagers captured a mysterious young woman in a remote region of Cambodia who, by all accounts, was completely isolated from human society, a feral child living in the forests. News of her discovery

A community effort in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains offers hope for this unique mammal.

Quebec architects propose a 48-storey tower in a forest, "a new relationship between humans and their natural habitat."

If 10 percent of Americans adopted these 7 changes, we could cut total domestic emissions by 8 percent in 6 years.