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

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.

Turns out he was doing 46 miles per hour in a 25 mile-per-hour zone. But let's all blame the girl for distracted walking!

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

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.

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

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.

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.

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

An electrifying story from Germany, where they are wiring the autobahn.

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.

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."

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.

Does it make sense putting this in a small town up on the Canadian Shield?

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.

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

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

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

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

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

Pay attention, as this sort of thing could hit other mountainous areas that are dependent on glaciers for their water supply.

Oldest ever popcorn discovered in Peru tells the story of indigenous corn varieties versus gmo monoculture crops.

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

The new find may change anthropologist's conception of early Peruvian prehistory.

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.

From ancient trees and strange sea slugs to odd and adorable insects plus more, our most popular reader's photos of the year are a tribute to Mother Nature.

Nicolas Laisné's vast project is a very different kind of office development.

New research documents that mantises worldwide are eating small birds; in the US, invasive mantis species are devouring hummingbirds.

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

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.

Pesticides make lawns unplayable.

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.

For example, 72 pesticides approved for use in the United States are banned or in the process of being phased out in the EU.

Just like your pet, these big cats can't resist the lure of an open cardboard cube.

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

From ribs and onions to chips and corn, these barbecue-friendly foods can be unfriendly to dogs and cats.

Did you know that cheetahs sound a lot like your housecat?

A good, if not very accurate, idea.