It learns your usage patterns but can do a lot more.

In which I try out a smart lighting system in my dumb home.

Photo credit: Wikipedia/Creative Commons 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety of conservation and education issues

It is better than a fixed standing desk? They make a good case for it.

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).

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.

At the ConocoPhillips annual shareholder meeting last week, CEO James Mulva announced the company's withdrawal from the oil-drilling project in Block 39 of the northern Peruvian Amazon. It was a highly controversial project

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.

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.

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.

Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are banding together to combat unlawful timber products and curb deforestation.

This short film, while focused on the island of Kauai, highlights the challenges and crises we will all have to face on our island planet.

Help Treehugger founder Graham Hill design his compact, off grid, energy positive compound in Maui.

The numbers are in for the World Happiness Report 2017; who wins this year's crown of contentment? Think of it as a love letter to Scandinavia.

Every country everywhere should be doing this.

This is where we started.

The SolPad Mobile device offers a scaled-up solar charging and battery solution for both home and off-grid applications.

Finally, fire departments are buying equipment designed for the city instead of designing the city to fit the equipment.

Few things make as much sense as eating a harmful species, while sparing the threatened ones.

This is beginning to get real.

It's going for every label from LEED to Living Building Challenge

The Muslim American Society of Charlotte isn't just putting solar on its mosque. 40 of its congregants are going solar too.

Got ladybugs? Encourage native ladybugs in your garden instead of buying wild-harvested ladybugs to manage pests.

Experts have predicted a "high risk" of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.

Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.

Photo: Stephanie Says, Flickr, CC Turning Food into Fuel is Not the Solution The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has released a warning that U.S. and European policy to increase the production of biofuels could lead to almost

Kidney failure is killing sugarcane workers in Central America who supply sugar for both our sweet tooth and demand for ethanol.

An ethanol production mandate could be in conflict with efforts to reduce the Gulf Coast dead zone.

It runs the full width of the car. What could possibly be the problem?

For many

Fifth Third Bank shows us just how easy it is becoming for corporations to source all of their electricity from renewables.

It's a moveable feast of cheaper, cooler, greener electricity for building blockchains.

What's more fun than riding with 25,000 people through car-free streets on a beautiful day (and night)?

One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!

The city wants to become a leader in electric transportation, part of a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third.

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.

And a big part of the pitch is sustainability and comfort.

They are one of the most iconic features of the city, but some of them are really scary.

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.

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

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...

This is the kind of gentle density we need.

Now how about some incentives to get people out of cars?

By controlling portion size and refusing to overeat, particularly in restaurants, we can reduce food waste and remind ourselves of the true value of food.

Excessive population growth presents an immediate environmental danger greater than climate change.