Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.

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.

Slow, incremental changes are more effective than trying to do it all at once.

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.

It's up to you to decide if you want to take the shortest route, the cleanest one, or the quietest one.

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.

Books aren't just for reading -- you can carve incredible works out of them too, as this artist has done with this 24-volume set.

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.

Finally, a true Zero Waste store has arrived in Canada! Méga Vrac features more than 700 products, making it a perfect place for waste-averse shoppers to stock their pantries.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

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

Talk about slashing food miles; 'fresh from the roof' is as local as it gets.

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

The age of vehicular cycling is coming to an end; cyclists want equity, not equality

Electric bikes are the great leveller; a lot more people will be doing this.

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.

Well, that happened fast.

The rollout starts in Seattle, then more broadly.

Why doesn't form follow function?

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

Big Auto is increasingly coming up against Big Tech.

And will gas cars suffer as a result?

Fleet purchasing may turn out to be critical to electrification.

What's next after the coal purge?

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

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

This doesn't seem right.

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.

As prices drop and range increases, more and more people are going electric.

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

For Monsanto, superweeds are just another selling point for its products.

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.

You just can't fool Mother Nature.

The Open Sesame documentary examines the importance of open source seeds.

The Guardian's Kara Moses asks, "Do we need conclusive scientific proof to become concerned about an issue?" I think not, because sometimes even conclusive proof isn't enough for government and society to act.

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.