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.

Forget about 3D printing houses; digital fabrication using sustainable materials is a much bigger deal.

Canadian birch hauled out of Canada's Ottawa River adds resonance and tone.

Demand for quinoa in developed countries means agrarian people in Bolivia and Peru can't afford the one-time staple crop. Is that entirely bad news? The answer is complicated.

The estimated 80% of Kenyans that are not on a grid rely solely on kerosene to light their homes. But a pay-as-you-go home solar system promises to deliver clean, affordable lighting to rural areas.

This new award-winning documentary reveals the stark contrasts between America's obsession with standardized tests, at the cost of everything else, and Scandinavia's embrace of all things nature-based. It's clear which is the more successful approach.

Instead of turning sunlight into electricity, and then using that to power indoor lighting, Lucy redirects the daylight into rooms for effective natural illumination.

A custom-made addition to this small condo packs in extra features and functionality, creating more spaces in one.

The system will also help reduce the spread of disease in rural villages.

Another interesting find from Buenos Aires design fair, Feria Puro Diseno (FPD), this is a modular system designed by local studio Disenaveral to build different kinds of shelving spaces that adapt to changing situations.

Scientists have named a new marine ecological community, the Plastisphere, comprised of, you guessed it, plastic -- and all the organisms that now call ocean plastic home.

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.

The ecosystem had thrived for thousands of years but collapsed less than two centuries ago.

It's been a while since a good poo-power story has come down the pipe, but here's an interesting one: Massachusetts-based biofuels company Qteros and wastewater recyclers Applied Clean Tech have announced that they

We often ask the question "Why buy when you can rent?" but we never thought of this.

Everybody should be doing this, planning for repairability from day one.

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights, "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes

In an interview with Democracy Now!, Michael Pollan says taking back control of cooking may be the single most important step to help make our food system more sustainable.

Providing clean water in areas with minimal local resources may be as simple as implementing this ingenious DIY water treatment system.

One solution for purifying water in remote off-grid areas comes in the form of a wagon, complete with solar panel and water purification system.

Perhaps yes, if our food system stays the way it is, but maybe that's what we should be challenging.

Things don't quite work as they are supposed to when people stand up.

The static, traditional lecture classroom is slowly on its way out. Here's how the flexible classroom of the future might be furnished.

This smart system automatically frees up floorspace and can learn your preferences.

The modular MoreFloor system lets you store things in your floor -- clothes, shoes, even a bed.

This might be a model for how to live lightly in a circular economy.

Researchers discover how Arctic foxes modify their dens to make the surrounding land more fertile.

This water filtration solution requires no electricity, has no moving parts, and can be built affordably with locally available materials.

You can't really 'boost' your immune system, but certain lifestyle decisions will make its job easier.

A new desalination technology company is looking to help clean up and recover some of the trillion gallons of salty wastewater from the oil and gas industry.

By combining solar PV, solar thermal, and a heat exchanger, Desolenator has developed a low-cost portable water purifier and desalination device powered by renewable energy.

This system could produce 3,500 gallons of clean water per day, at half the cost of current desalination methods, using just the motion of the waves to power the Reverse Osmosis process.

The technology uses radiative sky cooling to help cool buildings without electricity.

Designed by an innovative 19-year-old, the Sun Saluter relies on a basic water clock to rotate solar panels.

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

An advertising gimmick that gives a whole new meaning to the words "training shoes."

Beekeepers will soon be able to track the health of their colonies right from their smartphone.

One of the big NIMBY complaints about wind turbines is the constant blinking lights that make them visible to aircraft. A new sensor system would eliminate the nuisance, lighting the turbines only when planes are approaching.

No turbine blades in sight.

That's 0.0082677165 inches for Americans, and really thin in either unit.

New research comparing Amish and urban-dwelling babies in Ohio finds a notable difference in fecal bacteria.

It is not about making the world safer for cyclists, it is about making the world safer for autonomous cars.

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