Alphabet, Google's parent company, is experimenting with a new energy storage technology.

It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen?

The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.

Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.

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

Unfortunately, people like the slogans a bit too much.

A Canadian scientist wants us to rethink our approach to plastic and challenge the colonial system that produces it.

Reusability beats out biodegradability any day.

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

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.

What's more fun than riding with 25,000 people through car-free streets on a beautiful day (and night)?

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.

A partnership between Moisson Montreal and the largest grocery chains in the province will continue to salvage hundreds of tons of food that would otherwise be discarded.

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

This architecture and engineering design used to be all the rage. What happened?

A new study shows that in fact, if you build them, people use them and drive less.

All work and no play? Here's a work space with some playful humor built in.

Part art, part meditative process, these works are created with plant material harvested from the artist's urban garden.

Wood smoke is a huge source of particulate pollution and really shouldn't be in residential neighbourhoods. But the flavour...

They do this so well in Montreal.

Now, if only we could get US drivers out of their trucks.

Big Auto is increasingly coming up against Big Tech.

It was a while coming, but this could be a pretty big deal for your average buyer.

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

Let's hope they play nicely with government-funded cargo bikes.

Now how about some incentives to get people out of cars?

Price is no longer the main obstacle. Lack of understanding might be.

British scientists do the math and find that we come up short for cobalt, lithium and copper.

Following anti-Monsanto activism in other countries, Poland has announced plans to completely ban the growth of Monsanto’s genetically modified strain MON810.

Want to do something really different for Thanksgiving this year? Come have an organic dinner on the lawn of Monsanto's World Headquarters and watch the latest show from Rev. Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir.

When reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the Environmental Protection Agency considered just five independent studies, and 27 industry-funded studies.

The #1 most-used herbicide in the world is in you, me, and our pee. Should we do something?

They are still banned in Manhattan where they would be most useful. Why not ban parked cars instead?

You already own the solutions. They are called feet.

From scooters to cargo bikes, a bunch of alternatives to driving that car.

In a word, no. Ford can sell this fiction, but it is all about friction.

Docked electric cars can be worse than dockless scooters for pedestrians, but the UEone is a step in the right direction.

E-bikes will eat cars, and H2 bikes will eat Toyotas.

BRB introduces a bunch of concept vehicles that look like a lot of fun without fossil fuels

Micromobility can solve the last mile problem and reduce carbon emissions.

Melinda Hanson talks to TreeHugger about taking back the streets.

Michael Pollan writes in the New York Times about the connection between the American diet and the cost of health care; Surprisingly, conservative writers like Marie-Josée Kravis are saying much the same thing,

The New York Times devotes an entire issue of the magazine to food, and of course, Michael Pollan has a place on the menu. He takes our our beloved KFC double down sandwich, Froot Loops being a smart choice, and

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch Bioneers 2009 - a weekend-long gathering in San Rafael, California of social and scientific innovators focused on environmental issues - kicked off on Friday with Michael Pollan as a headlining speaker. His talk came in the

The Mandometer was originally developed to treat eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa; it was developed to "teach patients how to eat and recognize hunger and satiety." There are clinics using the technology in Sweden, the USA and

Oprah treated her audience to an in-depth look at sustainable, cruelty-free eating with a show that included appearances from Michael Pollan and Alicia Silverstone. While Pollan talked about how eating local, organic food can cost

All the foodies are outraged by the New York Times Expose on the marketing of cheese. The front page story While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales by Michael Moss describes how Dairy Management helps