What happens when you give a futuristic cloth-like material designed for BMW coupes with a bevy of design students and funding from one of the world's leading

Electric vehicles have come a long way in the last few years, steadily gaining acceptance as a practical and sustainable form of transportation. This is especially true in cities, where most trips are short and space is at a premium.

It appears that drivers of fancy cars are more likely to go through pedestrian crosswalks

It's Blame the Victim time as the car company tells pedestrians to brighten up.

Wouldn't it be nice if clean tech advocates could, for once, just stop fighting with each other?

The EPA has just released official "fuel economy" and range information for the BMW i3 100% electric car.

If you'd like a close-up view of the BMW i8 electric sports car manufacturing process, here are the goods.

Well, as much as you can humanize a $136,000 sports car.

In a funny twist, one of the stars of an extremely popular car show (Top Gear) whose script smeared Tesla is now going electric. James May is getting a BMW i3.

Instead of banning cars from city centers, this automaker recommends elevated roads for electric bikes & scooters to ease congestion and emissions.

Ed. note: We're now up to the sixth post in the Green Basics series of posts that TreeHugger is writing to provide basic information about important ideas, materials and technologies for new greenies (or those who just need a quick refresher). Read on

CFL bulbs, or compact fluorescent light bulbs: energy savings Commonly referred to as CFLs, compact fluorescent lamps or compact fluorescent light bulbs, the energy-saving bulbs have escaped the stereotype of buzzing, flickery, washed-out lights to

Pollution from power plants, cars, and other transportation is a well-known contributor to outdoor air pollution, but our indoor air quality is often worse; it can be up to 10 times worse for you than the air outside. Microbial pollutants like mold,

The local food movement, eating local, being on the "100 mile diet" or being a locavore are all synonymous with local food, whose consumption has risen to prominence as an

Getty Images Volatile organic compounds: something's in the air You can't see them, but they're all around us. They aren't listed as ingredients on the objects we bring in our home, but they're often there. They're volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, a

Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink (or so we all learned as kids, right?), but it's definitely not as easy as that these days. In honor of World Water Day (which may or may not have been today), let's

For as long as our planet has spun 'round the sun, there's been solar energy cascading down on the earth, and, for a long time -- since the 7th century B.C., when glass was used to magnify it -- humans have been working to

Love to accessorize, but want to stay green? Here are some ways you can do both.

Reducing your carbon footprint and building community go hand-in-hand toward creating a better planet.

Resolve to make these simple changes month by month as a graceful way to ease into a more sustainable lifestyle.

A level playing field for renewables is about to get a step closer, at least in Morocco.

The competition is looking for new ideas for capturing the emissions from fossil fuels and turning them into something useful instead of harmful.

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.

President Trump will unleash America's "vast energy wealth." Just watch.

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

Evonik and Siemens announce two-year project to demonstrate feasibility of "technical photosynthesis" using eco-electricity to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

From Genghis Khan's reforestation to King Edward I's 14th century ban of coal mining, these famous people were dedicated to TreeHugger ethics --- even if they didn't know it.

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.

Everyone is worried about population growth, but in fact it may well be going the other way.

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.

How to slow it? Access to voluntary family planning for all women. It more than pays for itself, reducing unwanted pregnancies, abortions, unplanned births... And helps reduce humanity's environmental impact.

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.

The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people.

This large format photo book features hundreds of stunning images highlighting the effects that our global population of 7 billion (and growing) has on the Earth.

Demographers are complaining, but Americans have many good reasons for not wanting so many kids.

Annual growth will soon be negative everywhere except Africa.

It's not revising up its official targets, but the government is hinting that it may now achieve 225 GW by 2022.

Pollinator power, y'all.

Many vegans don't realize that there's 'meat' in their electricity supply.

In a double breakthrough, scientists find a material four times more efficient at making hydrogen by photocatalysis and demonstrate how to make it at low temperature

Primary energy consumption was down, too.

For those who say it's too difficult...

There's symbolism here. Let's hope there's substance too.

This is green energy writ large. Very large...

One of the UK's "Big Six" energy companies has gone a dark shade of green.

The country's onward march of low carbon energy shows no signs of stopping.

It's a good thing global fish stocks aren't in peril...

It's an important inflection point. But a lot of work still remains.

Home owners are going solar, without having to put anything on their roof.