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Finally! Tiny home subdivisions and developments are becoming a reality.

Another good reason to move to Colorado.




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Salida, Colorado, will be the home of the largest tiny home community in the US

200 tiny homes, a community building, an exercise facility, a restaurant, and other amenities will be built along the Arkansas River in Salida.




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Refreshing tiny house is built using gooseneck trailer

This kind of trailer means you can eliminate the head-banging sleeping loft.




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Professional bus homebuilder is at home -- on a converted bus (Video)

A tour inside a solar-powered bus conversion that makes you feel at ease.




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Newly discovered fossils fill gaps in amphibian evolution

The newfound fossils shed light on the early evolution of one of the planet’s most mysterious amphibians.




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Photo: Cutest mountain goat babies ever, we kid you not

Our absolutely adorable photo of the day comes from Mount Evans, Colorado.




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Photo: Bighorn sheep rule the mountaintop

Our majestically cute photo of the day comes from Mount Evans, Colorado.




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See all the seasons at Rocky Mountain National Park in 4 breathtaking minutes

As part of their More Than Just Parks project, Will and Jim Pattiz spent two years filming in the majestic Colorado mountains.




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Elevator bed & folding porch grace this tiny house builder's home (Video)

This tiny house builder and architect just built himself and his wife a bigger (but still tiny) home, equipped with a space-saving elevator bed.




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Colorado could save $2.5 billion from shutting down coal

And people keep saying it's too expensive to deal with climate change.




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The Hideout tiny house has both fold-down master bed & loft

This contemporary small dwelling has both a main-floor bedroom and a secondary sleeping loft.




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Why do cyclists break the law?

A new episode of the War on Cars looks at an issue dear to my heart.




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This was the decade of the bicycle. What's next?

Probably, the decade of e-mobility




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Make room for the e-bikes, the top-selling electric vehicles for the next decade

A new study from Deloitte predicts what we have said before: e-bikes will eat cars.




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World's Biggest Urine Separating, Composting Toilet Scheme Fails

We keep saying that this is the way we should go, but perhaps the technology here just wasn't ready.




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Crapping On Bill Gates' "Reinvent the Toilet" Winner

The last thing the world needs is a high tech electrochemical reactor toilet. This is a social problem, not a technical one.




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Nature Loo composting toilet puts some distance between the person and the poop

This simple Australian design has some interesting features and benefits.




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Blue Diversion develops a toilet that's a lot more than flush and forget

A toilet is just the working end of a much larger system that can have a huge impact on society.




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Peecycling in the city: Would you "stealth pee" in an urban yard?

Nutrient cycling is important. But it's not something you want to get arrested for.




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Off-grid classroom blends into the last of Long Island’s prairie

The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses.




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It's time to bring composting toilets home

It's becoming easier to do so as the rules change and the toilets get better.




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You (and your poop) will be transported by this French composting toilet

Here's the hot poop on a toilet with a conveyor belt to move the stuff out of sight, out of mind.




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It's World Plumbing Day

We turn on the tap and run some of our favorite stories.




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Are public toilets a right in public spaces? (Survey)

If you gotta go, you should have a clean private environmentally friendly place to go.




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Terrific toilets built in Aspen by Charles Cunniffe Architects

Who says loos have to be boring and utilitarian?




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Man builds $1,500 tiny house, forages & grows his own food (Video)

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.




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Great bathroom reading: 'Essential Composting Toilets' (book review)

Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide.




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Chinese Fruit Bats Demonstrate Unusual Sexual Behavior Never Before Seen in Adult Animals

New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has




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European Bats Resistant to Deadly Fungus

Since 2006, bat populations in the northeastern United States have been decimated by a mysterious condition known as "white-nose syndrome." Caused by a fungus,




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10 adorable bats that may or may not suck your blood

A lesson in loving flying nocturnal mammals.




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Little Brown Bat Will Be Pushed to Extinction by Spreading White Nose Syndrome: New Study

photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr White nose syndrome, a disease caused by exposure to a particular fungus, first discovered in 2006, has been afflicting bats in the eastern United States and appears to be spreading. Considering that it's




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Amazon Tribe Battles Rabid Vampire Bats

At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been




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Cool High-Rise Bat Habitat Draws Nature's Pest-Fighters to New York Sculpture Park (Video)

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area.




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Deadly White Nose Syndrome Keeps Spreading Among New York's Bat Population

New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been




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Insect Hotels Abound at Chelsea Flower Show

Insect hotels are architectural, recycled and perfectly formed. But you can't stay there: they are for the bugs.




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Billboard Houses Bats and Translates Their Speech, Tells Us What's Up

If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a




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South Carolina Documents Its First Human Rabies Case in Over 50 Years

South Carolina health department announces a human rabies case sourced from a bat.




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Action-Flick Filming Takes Toll on Bulgarian Bat Cave

The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.




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The Week in Animal News: Epically Lost Sea Turtle to be Released, Sylvester Stallone Movie Harms Bats, and More

A young sea turtle found in the Netherlands will be released after a three-year recovery. We also have the search for the "extinct" Javan tiger, Sylvester Stallone's bat cave incident, and more.




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Scientists Estimate Up to 6.7 Million Bats Dead From Disease

White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Now scientists believe the disease, which is spreading, may have been worse than previously imagined.




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Why Bats Need a 'Happy Hour' and Swedes Try to Comply

Wind power is not just a Danish success story - Swedish wind is growing leaps and bounds. But the bats may suffer, so the Swedes are trying to impose 'bat happy hour'




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The Week in Animal News: Powerful Sea Cucumber Poo, Giant Pythons Invade Florida and More

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.




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How to remove a bat from indoors

In the face of a devastating epidemic, bats need our tender loving care more than ever. If one sneaks inside, here's how to remove it without toxicants or harm.




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Small Wind Turbines May Cut Bat Activity in Half

A study of the impact of small residential wind turbine installations on local wildlife populations shows a potential loss of habitat for bats and a steep reduction in activity around the units.




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Adding Wildlife 'Passengers' to the Urban Commute

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.




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Holy Bat Cloud: Designer's Eco-Sculpture Boosts Bat Biodiversity

One architect creates a series of intriguing artificial habitats for threatened bat populations.




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Artists Build a 'Shanty Town' for Evicted Urban Birds

The 'Spatzenfavela' ('favela' for sparrows) provides a home for birds that have lost their city nests and roosts due to urban renewal.




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3D-printed robotic bat wing holds new possibilities for small aircraft

Dig out those old da Vinci drawings of winged flying machines, as he was really on to something!




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UK bird charity moves forward with gigantic wind turbine

This should take the wind out of the "all turbines are evil" crowd's sails.




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How to build and operate a bat-friendly wind turbine

When a bird charity installs a wind turbine, they're going to do it right.