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

Remember the story of Ohio's Bay Shore coal-fired power plant, the one that (perfectly legally) kills at least 46 million fish a year? Well that's still happening, but not without some legal challenges. A coalition of

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half

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.

After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.

Two days after the earthquake caused by a nearby fracking well the mayor said, "I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.”

Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio.

It's déjà vu all over again, with the old guard trying to stop the newcomers...

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

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 wood and plastics industry prefers Green Globes and is designing laws around it. Paging Jerry Yudelson.

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.

Swing-lovers will appreciate this massive art installation that combines art, architecture and play.

One was recently installed at an Ohio university. Is this the message one wants to give to students there?

If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

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

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

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

If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.

On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia, eating Philly Greens.

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.

There are all kinds of distracted and compromised people in our roads. Some of them cannot help it. So why are phones a problem?

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

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

Because shipping containers are designed to move and these ones might have to.

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

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.

Made with a tight budget and schedule, this structure was up and running within a matter of weeks.

I mean, shipping containers are hot. But does this kind of shipping container architecture make sense?

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense

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

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.

Of all the places to take action on marine litter, this one makes the most sense.

This cozy and compact dwelling out of Oregon packs one bed, one bathroom, a kitchen and porch.

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

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.

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

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.

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