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

We have to slow down and smell the coffee, and it might actually be fun.

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 via: LA Citystreets Clark U, Rice University, U Minnesota are all launching bike-sharing programs, along with the City of Minneapolis. Towson University has launched several green transportation programs - sadly no bike sharing, yet. Many of the

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

That's right, in communities across the US, recycling bins are now being outfitted with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips. And if you don't recycle, they'll let you know that they know.Savannah, GA,

Name calling is so much fun. Maryland State Senator Richard Colburn, R-Cambridge, thought he was having some at our expense when he characterized

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

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.

These lovingly photographed, colourful rowhouses are what's left after all the neigbouring ones have been demolished.

A group of scientists argues our current climate change models get it wrong. Tracking "Carbon" only tells half the story.

New York's skyline is getting greener and a whole lot more productive too.

Green roofs, living walls, vertical farms are all part of a new living architecture.

Green roofs are wonderful things and lovely to look at, but there are other factors in play here.

Strange things happen when roofs touch the ground.

"Less is more" is so over; These days the mantra is "too much is never enough."

And I am going to be positive, upbeat and happy about it, really.

There is not much that can go wrong in such a simple concept. That's really smart.

Is global cooperation the anecdote for global competition?

This simple idea could change how governments deal with the environment.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation shows how thinking circular could change the way we live for the better.

Turns out, environmental issues are not about awareness. People get it.

Pioneers are already making inroads into the market. But once economies of scale kick in...

The covering-yourself-with-blankets movement isn't nearly as cuddly as it seems.

We used to say this stuff should be banned because it was always installed badly. Has anything changed?

But some people are beginning to take the issue seriously. Anthony Pak writes a good article about it for Canadian Architect.

A representative of the industry says I shouldn't be picking on fiber glass. He's right.

lamar5292 has an idea for getting Haitians green housing: So how do you provide quick permanent safe housing that is also green in a situation like that? My suggestion is to take all the countries excess shipping containers to Haiti to be converted

Haiti's best-known export, the century-and-a-half-old rum company Rhum Barbancourt, is back in business after grinding to a halt following the devastating earthquake that hit the island

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

Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.

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

The update to the "Red List" illustrates the worldwide crises facing many species around the globe in the face of habitat loss and degradation.

Once one of the great mysteries of the natural world, the bluefin tuna's migration pattern has finally been elucidated by the workings of an international team of scientists as part of the global 10-year Census of Marine Life. To reach their

A 20 pound lobster going by the name of George was saved this past Saturday, as PETA brought him out to the Atlantic and set him free. George had been living at City Crab Restaurant in

Bluefin tuna is on the verge of total collapse. Maybe. It depends on who you ask. We may have been talking about

On land, slugs are far from nature's most beautiful creatures--but underwater, the family of shell-less creatures known as nudibranchs come in bright neons, glowing pastels, and vibrant primary colors. The 3,000 different kinds of nudibranchs get their

Slugs as we know them aren't the most colorful land-based creatures, but the shell-less mollusk known as nudibranchs (meaning "naked gills"), or sea slugs, are the complete opposite: The more than 3,000 different members

Megan McArdle at the Atlantic piles on the Infographic debate, " issuing a plea to bloggers to help stop this plague in its track."

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The palm oil situation is bad, but some people argue that it would be worse if replaced by other vegetable oils.

Another summer site that is now open is the Duncan House, a Usonian design by Frank Lloyd Wright that was moved from Chicago to Polymath Park, a resort near Pittsburgh. Usonian houses were "ypically small, single story dwellings without a garage or

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

You a runner? Or an exercise-oholic? And you want your workouts to reflect your green lifestyle? Well, the race is ON or at least for me and a few friends to find the best performing green running equipment.

Don't give up; Collective and individual actions can change the world.

The case is actually moving forward.

Scientists say this is the only way to feed 10 billion people without causing catastrophic damage to the planet.

It's a number that's been thrown around a lot recently. There's a danger it will be misunderstood.

Climate action is about to get radical.

Two weeks of climate action are starting on April 15.