But Passive House is so expensive! How can you build housing for the homeless and low income families this way?

It is an eye-catching Kengo Kuma design, but it ain't sustainable.

Another look at a controversial housing project.

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.

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

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario

Doug Ford, now leading in the polls, wants to open up more of it for development.

How many crushings or deaths will it take for a school to realize that large moving vehicles and small kids on foot are not meant to mingle in the same confined space?

One newspaper says there is no difference between organic and conventional milk; another says the test pool is far too small to make that conclusion.

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.

No green energy issue is too small for the rampaging Premier.

Canadian birch hauled out of Canada's Ottawa River adds resonance and tone.

Who needs trees when you can have beer in corner stores?

They cry "freedom" for them to smoke, drink, drive really fast and fry the planet. Everyone else, get out of the way.

In which I argue that bike-friendliness should be measured by how well a town caters to its most practical, regular, and vulnerable of users, not tourists.

It's being killed the name of "convenience."

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

One side effect of gold prices continuing to rise (now at a new record of $1500/ounce): Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon have increased up to 600% since 2003.

Three new private preserves have opened in Peru to buffer existing national parks. Is this the sign of a new trend?

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

Hundreds of dolphins and pelicans have been found dead on beaches in Peru since February, prompting the government to issue a public health warning.

Demand for quinoa in developed countries means agrarian people in Bolivia and Peru can't afford the one-time staple crop. Is that entirely bad news? The answer is complicated.

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.

Peruvian environmental authorities make a big statement with tiny turtles.

It harms retailers, drives overconsumption, and contributes to traffic jams and pollution. What's the point?

From mites to cockroaches, our house dust is literally crawling with things.

Get rid of slugs (and snails) without the use of pesticides that harm beneficial creatures and pollute our waterways.

The CDC has updated its US range maps to show the which mosquitoes are moving where.

With crickets in decline, some scientists say that the insects' summer crooning may become a thing of the past.

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.

A health insurer practices what it preaches.

A good, if not very accurate, idea.

This month's Full Buck blood moon will star in the longest total lunar eclipse of the century.

An astronaut-eye's view of Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station shows why everyone is kind of freaking out.

See the view captured by the International Space Station as the category 4 hurricane makes landfall over Florida.

For the first time ever, NASA has recorded a likely marsquake – listen to the haunting tremor here.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

The Grand Inga dam will be double the size of China's Three Gorges, but big questions remain about whether ordinary Africans will actually get its electricity.

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

A new type of hydrokinetic turbine sits within irrigation canals and could power several homes from the flow of water.

While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by 2018 renewable should overtake natural gas to become the world's second-largest source of energy (oil is #1).

A travel writer captures the beauty of Iceland's wilderness, but will these natural wonders exists for much longer?

The project will take advantage of the sun, mountains and sea.

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

Take one Estream and add moving water for clean, quiet, offgrid energy.

Income for farmers, or fracked natural gas—will communities be allowed to decide?

UK households can now buy 15 percent green gas and 100 percent green electricity with one easy tariff.

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

It's searching for a place to live because its home has been destroyed by our addiction to palm oil.