French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo

This year, French tire giant Michelin (yes, the Michelin that made the tires on your car) held its 10th Challenge Bibendum event, this time in Rio de Janeiro. If you've never heard of this thing, don't kick yourself,

Few industrialists in recent times have done more to imperil environmental protections and public health than the Koch brothers. The force behind Americans for Prosperity and Koch Industries have galvanized

This competition for the best environmental photography never fails to be interesting and professional.

There are reasonable limits on what people can do on their properties. But this goes too far.

That was the advice of Shakespeare's Polonius, but then there is the sharing economy. Which is it?

Hinduism is the oldest

Could it be that green living is making a comeback?

A new report card from the Electronics TakeBack Coaltion shows how each retailer stacks up when it comes to recycling the merchandise they sell us.

Photographer Michael Ciaglo has shared his haunting photos from Agbogbloshie, the "digital dump" on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana.

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

Of course the balance between environmental impact and personal

Katherine Salant writes in the Washington Post:Can a big house be green? Yes, but a smaller house will always be greener because fewer resources were used in its construction and less energy is needed to heat and

We’ve all ripped a pair of jeans, but we’re not all tailors. Nudie Jeans has a great solution.

Do we need hyperloops? No, we need trains that work.

Researchers found that a 10 percent increase in trees roughly matched a 12 percent decrease in crime in Baltimore.

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

Slugs as we know them aren't the most colorful land-based creatures, but the shell-less mollusk known as nudibranchs (meaning "naked gills"), or sea slugs, are the complete opposite: The more than 3,000 different members

Scientists say this is the only way to feed 10 billion people without causing catastrophic damage to the planet.

Fast fashion hurts real people, as this online series challenges three unsuspecting youngsters to go meet and work with the people who make their clothes.

It uses twice as much water and releases 800,000 more plastic microparticles per load than a regular cycle.

The future of green building depends on what comes out of our soil.

When made from the right materials, buildings can be a solution, not a problem.

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?

We know extreme weather events are linked to climate change, so why isn't this part of every report?

Ahead of the Frankfurt Auto Show starting 14 September, BMW is drumming up buzz for a completely new concept car, the Vision EfficientDynamics. BMW today released a video (over the fold) promising all the sporty driving fun of the BMW M3 in

Electric vehicles have come a long way in the last few years, steadily gaining acceptance as a practical and sustainable form of transportation. This is especially true in cities, where most trips are short and space is at a premium.

One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.

Taking a step back from the emotional response of the recent environmental devastation, let's take a look at offshore drilling more broadly: How much oil do we currently produce from offshore drilling, and how much might we potentially recover?

Up until now, only solid materials have offered the ability to capture materials using the filtering power of pores

Minimizing your footprint is nice. Maximising your impact is better.

It's also affecting everything from meat packing to crumpets.

This large format photo book features hundreds of stunning images highlighting the effects that our global population of 7 billion (and growing) has on the Earth.

The British government sees offshore wind as a genuine opportunity to lead.

Frugality blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames has outfitted her house and family with thrifted finds. This is her advice.

This new map uses satellite technology to display the world's vegetation, and can be used for everything from weather predictions to deciding best land use practices.

The movement of air around the planet is fascinating, and has never been more clear thanks to this map. The modeling system used to make it can simulate worldwide weather at remarkable detail.

A satellite that ran out of fuel two years ago is now giving scientists a huge wealth of data.

Along with climate-killing CO2, there are a lot of people-killing pollutants. Perhaps we should change our message.

It is recommended in the UK to reduce obesity. I recommend it to reduce obnoxious smells and garbage.

Learning which plastics are most harmful to health is one thing you can do.

Acorns are piling up around the U.S., threatening to cover some cities in nuts. Not really, but there have been an "exceptionally large number of acorns" dropped by oak trees around the country this year, Chicago-area experts say. This

New research finds that normal sleep may be protective against early death for people with certain health risks.

Doing street improvements for pedestrians and cyclists increases sales by 30 percent. So why aren't cities doing it?

A study shows that many want to make better decisions, but don't know how.

Ways to spend the day for those who'd like to skip the whole 'bloodsport of mass consumerism' thing.

It is a real problem when designing energy efficient homes, and it seems that there is no good solution except ordering in.

After another site makes a list, we add our own suggestions.

The ocean is full of uncharted territory -- and of breathtaking natural wonders that look like they'd be more at home on Pandora than in the blue depths just off the beach where you spent your summer vacation. These stunning underwater plants offer an

The company that makes "shoes for people who don't want to wear them" is introducing a new model of adventure shoe constructed with EVA foam made from algae biomass.