Car sharing service Zipcar will be adding Toyota Prius plug-in hybrids to its fleet.

Driving with a burger in one hand and a cellphone in the other is a sure recipe for highway disaster. And all that old food is hanging out, just waiting to give

The city fleet will have 425 Leafs, Volts and Energis on the road by early next year.

Is this the start of a trend in which automakers make money retrofitting older cars?

At $1 million per mile, the cost of wireless roads would be prohibitive.

Low gas prices, and crossovers with 30 mpg, mean that only a quarter of hybrid and electric buyers are getting another one.

Countless people drove past an injured armadillo, until one compassionate woman came along.

Rescuers spent months nursing a paralyzed leopard until the day he stood on his own paws.

Air conditioners have made architects lazy, and we've forgotten how to design houses that might work without it.

Why not design our homes so that we can get at the things that need to be changed? That's the idea behind "Open Building".

Environmentalist Peter Bahouth shares the inspiration behind Atlanta's most leafy and lovely Airbnb listing.

Forget Pat Conroy ... nothing says 'summer reading' like upcycling bibles and tiny house memoirs.

Don't want to live in it anymore? Just covert it into a drive-through shaved ice stand.

How they can provide some space for the next generation as well.

A 'clunker' is a vehicle reaching less than 18 mpg. Check out the top 10 clunkiest clunkers here.

This year's winning travel image from the Nat Geo contest features the beautiful tail of an endangered humpback whale calf.

Need a gift in a hurry? Here are some fun and festive ideas sure to please anyone on your holiday gift list.

Bring the great outdoors into your home with Three Bad Seeds' line of wilderness-inspired pillows handcrafted from repurposed scrap fabrics.

Give the real estate-fixated college graduate in your life a well-designed, practical gift that will be put to good use in their first post-grad abode.

With college grad gifting season upon us, here's a handful of useful, unique and starter apartment-friendly household items.

Try a triple pale ale, some mint julep fudge, or an amaretto cheesecake made by nuns and monks.

Next time you see one of UPS' iconic big brown delivery trucks, look closely because it may be one of the 200 new hybrids hitting the streets of American cities

Your next car purchase may be based on a letter grade issued by Beltway bureaucrats.

The latest tag team effort from the EPA and Department of Transportation is an ambitious one: the 60 mile per gallon car.

Vanessa has a beef with meat, again.

Climate change journalist George Monbiot says he was wrong when he claimed 'the only ethical response is to stop eating meat.'

This Spanish farmer's free-range geese fatten up naturally for migration season.

A plan to protect more than 11 million acres of land in the American West has been scrapped after months of talks inside the Beltway.

Obama spurs a wave of green political advertising ... but is it just Greenwashing(ton)?

A new Gallup poll shows more Americans are concerned about the economy than the environment. Peter Dykstra parses the details.

After the recent swine flu outbreak, it's worth looking at the difference between reporting the news and scaring the audience. The former head of CNN's science

When is rhetoric over-the-top when you're talking about climate change?

As history has shown us, environmental regulations often help the economy, not hurt it. Why can't corporations -- and Congress -- learn from the past?

Cash for Clunkers tore through our nation like a drag racer, long before anybody could figure out if it made sense. But its image is already locked in the popul

In 1994, 12.9 percent of strokes occurred in adults between ages 20 and 55, whereas in 2005, 18.6 percent of strokes occurred in this age group, according to th

For readers, it's great news that Playboy is getting rid of the naked photos.

Canada does an about-face on its climate target (if only) and the G77 suspends talks after a move to eliminate Kyoto Protocol language.

Eco prankster activists pull a fast one on the world when they send out a flurry of press releases that seem to indicate big cuts and climate reparation payment

It's the season for global warming meetings. Will this year be any different?

Little by little the Obama administration is clearing the way for CCS.

A National Geographic Kids book teaches all about the “Human Footprint.”

Crew of the F/V Kodiak partners with EcoEmissions to burn fuel more efficiently and reduce pollution.

For your health and the environment's, take at least one weekly stroll.

Find out how this small Maine liberal arts school achieved its goal of being 100% carbon-neutral ahead of a 2015 deadline.

The journalist is conducting a 9-month 'economic patriotism' experiment by eating nothing but French food and using only French-made products.

The University of Phoenix Stadium undergoes a lighting retrofit that's game-changing in more ways than one.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, pigtail.

A fair trade wedding dress maker discusses how her business was born.

Keep it simple with these carryalls with a stylish edge, which will last for years.

The stylish recycled rubber bracelets provide fair wages to the women who craft them, and sales of the bracelets support children in Africa.