If you break down these numbers (see below), you find that it's the over 65 that are most opposed, and that the more educated you are, the more in favor of more bike lanes you tend to be.

A group of tiny home owners have converted a formerly vacant lot into a small but vibrant place to demonstrate the possibilities of living happily with less.

After pilot programs in international markets like Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and Brazil, FedEx will deploy a fleet of electric delivery vans in Washington DC.

A detailed geological-drilling study warns of threats to the region's monuments, roads, wildlife refuges, and military installations.

All over North America we are letting our infrastructure rot and short-circuit.

Nobody is actually asking the question, because pedestrians don't matter, do they?

Work from your driveway or your site with this cute little workspace.

It's mostly a fake, completely rebuilt in the early 1950s.

Just read the headlines and weep

The New York subway, The Los Angeles Metro, and more ranked by someone who travels a lot but never drives.

We are still befuddled by technology but bumble along.

On this National Walking Day, a look at the excuses cities use to make it difficult to do so.

It doesn't have to be all about politics.

And things feel eerily familiar today.

Another look back at some great designs for inexpensive homes.

The private car has dominated our design dreaming for a hundred years; no wonder it is so hard to break the habit.

Boxy But Beautiful designs have been around for a long time, and there is a real logic to them.

Rachel Carson's book that many say launched the environmental movement was released on this day.

The American architect has been on TreeHugger many times.

100 years later, there are still lessons to be learned: Eat less, eat better, don't waste, and share.

100 years ago the Great Molasses Flood started another flood, one of regulations to protect people's health and safety.

And God bless the one-third of Americans who actually believe in natural selection.

On March 22, 1922, the discovery of insulin was announced. Here's what happened after.

This is very good news. So much so that it might soon stop being news.

Britain has already made great progress in decarbonizing the grid. It looks like there's more to come.

The Viking Grace was already low emission. Now it's going further.

The fall of coal has been swift in Britain, and there's no sign of it ever coming back.

And profits will go to giving land back to nature.

I can't imagine anyone doing an ad like this for coal.

You have to examine the reasons for why the clutter happened in the first place.

Take a moment to assess the 'dirty' garment before tossing it in the basket. You could save yourself some work.

Facebook just opened their newest data center, which they've pushed to make as energy efficient as possible. In fact, it even inspired the Open Compute project in which they open source every last detail about the data

On Caltech's campus, student engineers and scientists are busy in labs day and night working on hairy solar panels, termite

It's an icon that has been part of our lives forever... The electricity pylon was invented, in this design, in the '20's and since then it has been marching across the fields and highways of our mind

The Sierra Club is pointing attention to the once-through cooling systems used by many power plants. Power plants suck up over 200 billion gallons of water a day, and with that water comes millions of fish that don't exactly

Among music festivals, Bonnaroo is the juggernaut, and this year is was bigger than ever with 80,000 people descending on Manchester, Tennessee. One of the innumerable artists to preside over the festival's many stages (which included sitting in with My

After seven years in government, seven years in non-profits, and seven years in business, Michel Gelobter jokes that he's headed for the clergy next. And why not? He's led Redefining Progress, been a professor at Rutgers, and run environmental quality

Study shows that customers think the non-monetary benefits of the smart grid are great. That is, once someone explains what they are...

Burbank Water & Power opens a sustainable power plant campus as a model for re-adapting industrial sites from water reclamation to solar

California state regulators voted that PG&E customers can opt-out of smart meter installations, but they'll have to pay a fine and a monthly fee.

It seems counterintuitive. Is it just greenwashing? Is it due to government regulation? Let's find out.

Environmentalists aren't the only ones considering divestment anymore.

Many clean tech wonks have never heard of them, but Alevo plans to be manufacturing grid-scale energy storage on a huge scale within the next few years.

In the future, we'll be buying energy from utilities that look very different than what we are used to.

A new study says it's a case of out of sight, out of mind, but it has serious consequences.

Should we care where our electrons come from?

Efficiency and conservation aren't just about your personal footprint. They're about reaching tipping points.

Are the tables finally starting to turn?

The number of people using alternative mobility devices is exploding, and they will be demanding safe routes.

Here is an interesting buisness idea; grow butterflies to let fly at special ocasions and at the same time help the enviornment as well as people with special needs. The project is called Mariposeando (Spanish for something