Some timely examples of the intersection of Islam and environmental stewardship, both coming via the good folks over at Green Prophet: 1) Any new mosque built in Qatar must be eco-friendly, and 2) a new green guide to

A Jordanian permaculture teacher is exploring the intersect between environmentalism and spirituality. Her work could take permaculture mainstream in the Middle East.

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

Like the word 'sustainability', 'environmentalism' has become a hollow word, a word divorced from meaning, a word lacking in soul, separated from its essence.

A new study in the journal Conservation Biology found that snow leopards living near Buddhist monasteries in Tibet are being helped by monks who actively patrol the forests to prevent poachers from killing the endangered cats.

The electricity grid can handle a ban, ten years earlier than law makers are aiming for.

Solar power is a wonderful thing but the benefits are not evenly distributed.

In a compromise with environmentalists, the energy giant is committing some significant resources to clean tech.

Could it be that more efficient lighting means less coal being dug to power it?

It turns out leaving the EU is quite hard. Who knew?

That's compared to 624 in the whole of 2017...

More on why the 626 environmental groups demanding action on climate change shouldn't be doctrinaire.

The message "Electrify Everything!" is beginning to spread.

Ian Urbina reports at The New York Times on the negative side effects the tech industries shift to flat screen technology has had on the market for recycling old television and computer monitor glass

A new report card from the Electronics TakeBack Coaltion shows how each retailer stacks up when it comes to recycling the merchandise they sell us.

Fewer solar panel manufactures are willing to share information about their manufacturing practices, and that can't be good news.

By 2017, global e-waste rates will increase by 33% to 65.4 million tons per year—the weight equivalent of almost 200 Empire State Buildings.

Phonebloks was a great idea - mix-and-match pieces means upgrading from a basic platform is forever. Now it has a first competitor - the Eco-Mobius.

The smartphone market isn't slowing down any time soon, but many people are returning to simpler, older phone models for a host of reasons.

There's a lot to look forward to, but what should we expect to see more of in the short-term?

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.

And the Oatmeal says " I'm ready for our army of Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots."

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.

These may be limited to 25 MPH, but the era of autonomous cars is coming at us really fast.

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

It's cheap, it works and Oh, the places you'll go.

And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.

The ring of giant Project Loon balloons will bring data service to people living below.

Conservation organizations used Google Street View cameras to document the places, animals and people most vulnerable to climate change.

Big business may be coming to the climate party late. But it is making its presence known.

Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have joined together to support Obama's Clean Power Plan as it faces legal opposition.

I, for one, welcome the arrival of soft and sticky google cars.

But is it truly modular?

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has scrapped the release of the Project Ara phone.

A fleet of the cars mapped methane leaks in three major cities and the results aren't good.

Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.

The prime minister also mentioned holding companies responsible for the packaging waste they create.

Unfortunately, people like the slogans a bit too much.

The Canadian province is overhauling its recycling program, which would include holding producers accountable for their wasteful packaging designs.

Slow, incremental changes are more effective than trying to do it all at once.

With disinfecting and sanitizing on everyone's mind, good old-fashioned bar soap has never been more necessary. It's still possible to go plastic-free, too. These are the best bar soaps for every body part.

One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!

This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.

One of the biggest challenges of making cities more bike friendly is that most of the road space is already "used up." Adding bike lanes means removing something. That's when a bit of perspective comes in handy.

The city wants to become a leader in electric transportation, part of a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third.

Books aren't just for reading -- you can carve incredible works out of them too, as this artist has done with this 24-volume set.

And a big part of the pitch is sustainability and comfort.

Talk about slashing food miles; 'fresh from the roof' is as local as it gets.

The age of vehicular cycling is coming to an end; cyclists want equity, not equality