This electrically powered prototype will be great for getting you to the market, and carting stuff back home.

Perfect for small city apartments, this system allows you to use a variety of add-on components to build your own indoor garden.

For consumers, biodegradable and compostable products have mostly been a bust. Still, it is good news that the swiss company Freitag has succeeded making jeans that will break down on commercial compost piles.

Could sharing more be central to achieving the Right's biggest dream?

Patagonia's Worn Wear events, held in collaboration with sharing start up Yerdle, offer a different, more sustainable vision of Black Friday.

At first this smart lock seemed like gimmicky over-engineering. Then I got thinking about the possibilities.

A British campaign is asking people to pledge not to fly for a year. Good luck trying that in North America.

CEO Rose Marcario says the move will show solidarity for the young people who are striking for climate action.

All this talk of "bad hombres" got you down? Here's an antidote.

A 24-year-old food scientist at the University of Copenhagen has developed a prototype that could potentially save millions of lives.

Do you know how much of the so-called green or cool architecture is often for expensive hotels, government or office buildings? Well, in this case, it's the complete opposite.

Between 1999 and 2004, there was one death a year due to the falling of trees or branches in Colombia's capital city, Bogota.

Between 1999 and 2004, there was one death a year due to the falling of trees or branches in Colombia's capital city, Bogota. Though general wisdom says trees are good, this city proves that with poor planning, wrong species in the wrong places, and bad

A Model for the World This video by our friends at Streetfilms is not only great because it shows us a powerful example of bike infrastructure improving a city, but also because it shows how you can change the perception of riding a bike among citizens

Moving 1.7 People Every Single Day!This is how bus rapid transit (BRT) should be! TransMilenio's 104 stations allow the citizens of Bogota (in Colombia) to get to work, move around the city, run errands... All of that very conveniently and quickly -

Bogotá was a pioneer of car-free day. Now, it has decided to one-up that and move to having a car-free week.

From coastal getaways to desert hotspots, these retreats sooth the body and soul.

But regardless of what green initiatives they implement, tourists must be willing to change, too.

Beef Products Inc took its best shot at making up for its silence during weeks of public lashing over what has been dubbed “pink slime,” an additive in ground beef made through a high-tech process that BPI invented.

If you're not into bar soap, here's an innovative option for liquid hand soap.

Scientists find that wind power farms don't harm this at-risk species, a bit of surprise because other studies have shown that oil and gas development does affect prairie chickens.

While large wind turbines remain the dominant force in wind power, wider adoption may lie with small-scale turbines fit for urban and low wind conditions.

It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. Lush gets luxurious fair-trade cocoa butter, while farmers earn income in a low-risk way, not threatened by violence.

The People's Choice award went to photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, who took the photo in Cameroon.

There's nothing like watching the sun go down on a beach in a tiny African village.

Mountain gorillas have become the only wild apes whose population numbers are known to be improving.

He’s a fierce defender of his family and helped nurse two of his offspring back from leopard attacks. He likes to nap with his feet in the air, and he hums while he eats.

In a compelling new documentary, The Flood, Angela Bassett narrates the story of the life in one of the world's last great wildernesses.

An increase in maximum sentences for wildlife crimes are being delivered by the Republic of Congo – here's how one gang's arrest and conviction went down.

A new study investigates our ancient cousins' hunting abilities.

Purr, snuggle, awww, repeat.

Emily Atkin blames the President, but everybody who digs coal is going bankrupt. It's bigger and deeper.

This beautiful area near Salida, Colorado, could become the next national monument, with your help.

Who said politicians never did anything good?

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

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

Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy

While in Mongolia for World Environment Day, I toured the Salkhit Wind Farm.

Famed chef Magnus Nilsson will be serving dinner for three days in Åre, Sweden … 4,200 feet in the air.

Crafted from sustainably harvested cork in Portugal, these stunning mats will take your yoga practice to new eco-friendly heights.

She was a never-ending source of amusement, with more quotes of the day than any other politician.

It was hot last year, too.

Nope. It is just another example of the anti-environmental, anti-sustainability, climate-change denying, anti-Agenda 21 crowd hard at work.

There is some exceptional the nonsense coming from Republican members of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Good grief.

It's more than just a bike; it is a different way of thinking about design and manufacturing.

Just when you think it can't get any crazier in US politics, it does.

Maybe other jurisdictions will learn from this.

Who says you have to rough it in the bush? These gorgeous spots prove otherwise.

It took four years, one million spiders, and 80 people in Madagascar to make this cape, on view at London's V&A Museum -- and the color is natural.

Home automation, LED lighting, ceiling fans, insulation, energy monitoring and other tricks will save energy without sacrificing the experience in our holiday rental apartments.