Just think what the waste fat from 46 million Thanksgiving turkeys could fuel.

Veganism must be making serious inroads into society if McDonald's, king of industrial meat, is jumping into soy patties.

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!

You may be spending money on practical needs that are comprised of superfluous wants.

Studies show that standing has anti-ageing effects.

The wheels on the desk go round and round.

Because standing desks cannot stand alone.

New research suggested benefits for giving students the option to stand during class.

In this installment of Town & Country, Margaret and Katherine share how they work from home.

For people like me who work all over the place, portable standing desks can be pretty useful

But there is a real question of how much one should pay for an artisanal shelf bracket.

The high tech answer to keeping you moving while working.

Switching to a standing desk doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing endeavor.

It is better than a fixed standing desk? They make a good case for it.

Do the benefits of not sitting all day ever end?

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.

It sorta defeats the purpose in about twelve different ways.

Made by NextDesk, the Encore is ideally green, with bamboo top, recycled aluminum frame, and VOC-free coating - perfect for this TreeHugger writer!

Is that a cheap standing desk, or an expensive cardboard box? Hard to tell.

It's really all you need in this era of notebook computers.

It actually seems to say that you can give someone an adjustable desk but you can't make them stand. That's a very different thing.

It's clever, cheap, burns calories and keeps the blood flowing and heart pumping.

After 52,696 steps, a review of a LifeSpan treadmill desk.

Just standing isn't enough; you gotta move.

It tells you when to get up and to sit down, and checks up on you too.

Because people gotta move.

They're good for some things, but researchers say they're not the magic bullet solution for health that many would like them to be.

Every developer worth his or her weight in white beach sand is vying to be able to proclaim his or her resort the first or best or truest eco-resort.

This tiny verdant island, called Vulcan Point or sometimes Vulcan Island, lies at the center of a strange-but-entirely-true natural wonder. It's known for being the world's largest volcanic island that's on a lake, on a

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.

Companies will do anything to protect their brand – maybe even redesign packaging.

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

A 18-foot-wide helix turbine specially designed for urban spaces has been installed on the roof of Progressive Field, ready to begin churning out energy on opening day.

It's déjà vu all over again, again! Auto dealers have been fighting Tesla Motors on multiple fronts for a while now, trying to either force them to do business with the traditional sales model, or be prohibited from selling in certain states.

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.

Nic Darling is part of Postgreen Homes, builder of the 100K house and others that I have raved about; Postgreen is a different kind of developer, working in gritty urban parts of Philadelphia, doing smaller, more affordable

Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money

The mayor has portrayed the controversial soda tax as a great source of revenue with which to do fabulous things for the city, rather than a benefit for public health.

It's almost like there is a concerted campaign to turn distracted walking into a serious problem.

In Toronto and New York, Vision Zero is just talk. It's time for action.

One Passive House architect gives his clients what they want.

It makes a lot of sense in a country with no workers and five other permanent stadia.

Another look at a controversial housing project.

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.

Populist leaders are more interested in cutting the price of gas than they are in stopping climate change.

A lot of the permaculture design principles make just as much sense for buildings.

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.