This is Paris' largest mural, made with hand-folded origami paper birds and a bit of spraypaint.

Looking like a "great ship," this solar-powered music venue is a new gateway into the city.

The second generation of Paris' bike-sharing fleet will see 20,000 bikes hit the streets next year, and 30% of those will feature an electric drivetrain.

...or does this augur the final breakdown of civilization?

Instead of banning these technologies, we have to figure out how to manage them. Because they are inevitable.

This classic design is 80 years young and some famous designers pay hommage.

There's finally momentum on the international stage. And this is one of the most ambitious announcements yet.

Urban dwellers can get a taste of camping out in nature with this temporary island cabin just outside of Helsinki.

This Finnish design doesn’t look quite finished but it is ingenious.

A Worcester’s Buttonquail was caught on camera for the first time by a French documentary team who were filming native bird trappers at work in the Philippines. No one realized how rare the bird was until it was identified as a Worcester’s Buttonquail

A modern but retro-flavored makeover for the endearing bicycle rickshaw by Filipino designer Kenneth Cobonpue.

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

A 18-foot-wide helix turbine specially designed for urban spaces has been installed on the roof of Progressive Field, ready to begin churning out energy on opening day.

"I was shocked when I saw the tree. It was cut down, the head was lopped off, it was so upsetting," said one Cleveland business-owner.

The wood and plastics industry prefers Green Globes and is designing laws around it. Paging Jerry Yudelson.

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.

If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.

Wiarton Willie saw his shadow this morning, which means the cold weather will stick around.

Architect Jonathan Kearns shows that you can have it all.

In which I argue that bike-friendliness should be measured by how well a town caters to its most practical, regular, and vulnerable of users, not tourists.

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.

A new study finds altered neurological performance in children during peak pesticide spraying for the Mother's Day flower harvest.

New research documents that mantises worldwide are eating small birds; in the US, invasive mantis species are devouring hummingbirds.

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.

Kissing bugs can carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease, and they are now making their way through the US.

A good, if not very accurate, idea.

Spend 90 minutes in the eyes of an astronaut.

Our blue-green Earth might have actually been a different color, thanks to this molecule.

Hydroelectric power is an easy choice to make if you have access to a stream or river, but this concept takes advantage of the streams running through our walls: our plumbing.

A new type of hydrokinetic turbine sits within irrigation canals and could power several homes from the flow of water.

A travel writer captures the beauty of Iceland's wilderness, but will these natural wonders exists for much longer?

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

Sure, we'll be using oil for a while. But where, exactly, is demand growth going to come from?

A commercial fish farm in El Borboton, Honduras is using fish guts--heads, skins, and internal organs--to produce biodiesel. Instead of dumping what's left after filleting for commercial sale, Saint Peter's cooks the parts down to produce 300,000

The kit includes an LED headlight and tail light and a rugged case that attaches a smartphone to the handlebars.

Innovative model brings fresh produce and jobs to areas and people in Chicago that need it most

Northern Arizona University student from a range of departments built the charging station piece-by-piece to educate fellow students on the energy used by their gadgets.

Conservationists are celebrating a British firm's recent pullout from a biofuel project in Kenya that they say would have destroyed the Tana River Delta, a wetland ecosystem crucial for regional wildlife.

The city council has begun installing solar-powered lights around the streets of downtown Nairobi.

Jason Aramburu is trying to revolutionize how we garden by expanding the production of "Black Revolution" biochar, a soil-less growing medium made from farm waste.

Decommissioned buses are getting a second useful life as mobile shelters for Honolulu's homeless.

Move over, indoor birthing tub. This woman wants to deliver in the Pacific Ocean with dolphins as midwives.

Simple, no frills cabin living at its best, right by the ocean.

In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent.

There is so much in their new strategy that I can't get it all in the title.