A train that reportedly left a workshop yesterday failed to brake when entering a major station and crashed against the end-of-the-line barrier

FOROBA YELEN is the name given by villagers in Mali to the lighting prototype following an anthropologic study. A shared technology to improve work, education and rituals.

Decommisioned parachutes are being transformed into lightweight rain harvesting systems to provide drinking water in semi-arid regions.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

This year, take a side in the war on the car, and support stores on your neighborhood bike lane or transit route.

Ambitious progress is possible, even in society's hardest to abate sectors.

Why so much focus on packaging when product waste is equally important to consider?

A number of companies are flying SST Trial balloons, but we should all pop them now.

The impact of flying on climate change cannot be ignored, as I book my next flight.

In an effort to appease critics, the airport is focusing on four key environmental strategies.

While Unesco has asked Peru to limit visitors to the famous site, the government is making it easier for people to access.

Part of a series where I try to calculate the carbon footprint of my life.

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

The online-only financial institution will provide low cost loans for solar, electric cars and even electric-assist bicycles.

The project in Denmark is a good object lesson.

The wide use of antibiotics in factory farms to prevent infections and promote growth is a breeding ground for superbugs.

The anti-straw movement is definitely having a moment. Let's hope the momentum continues.

You have heard of "fast fashion." Get ready for fast architecture in container-sized modules.

Meet Dopper, a Cradle to Cradle water bottle company that’s bringing clean water to Nepal.

It may sound like an oxymoron, bringing sustainable practices to mining operations, but unless we all stop consuming resources immediately, mining is also not going anywhere. So this is good news: since 2007, Alcoa's Jamalco

A new book, Allowed to Grow Old, reveals beautiful portraits of something we don't get to see very often: Elderly farm animals.

Aiming to spark conversations about marine conservation, these beautiful works reimagine the oceans in their pristine state.

Every year, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative community comes together to exchange ideas, share innovations, and inspire those who have a vision of a world that values and benefits from sustainably managed forests.

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) is working with partners like American Forests on important global issues, including climate change.

Your focus should be on local growers, rather than those overseas.

But Amazon has some work to do.

It’s not perfect, but it is pretty impressive.

Our never-ending search for convenience comes at a cost.

Even as global demand for all-things-coconut increases, coconut production in Asia is stagnating because farmers aren't paid enough to make it worthwhile.

Another door has closed for Western nations hoping to dump their trash overseas. Maybe it's time for another model?

Turn your anger into action by supporting lion-loving charities that are doing great things for big cats.

Intended for short-term stays in nature, these prefab units can be transported and 'dropped into' almost any location.

Whether for exercise, electricity, or simply out of curiousity, the bicycle powered charging stations in Amsterdam airport appear popular

The project is one of the winners of a Performance Architecture contest to celebrate Guimarães as European Capital of Culture.

The latest urban intervention to celebrate the city's status as European Capital of Culture is an unusual film venue for pedestrians.

It is the perfect local renewable material, and a great insulator too.

An eye-opening report reveals how low-grade plastics are burned as fuel, poisoning the surrounding soil and air.

A hilarious remix of a classic image demonstrates that the new high-tech alternatives are not solving every problem.

It talks a lot about cycling, but notes that we don't do nearly enough about walking.

They incentivize air travel at a time when people should be flying less.

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

"Tucked in a corner of the Old Executive Office Building, an obscure group of some three dozen economists exerts extraordinary power over federal rules intended to protect public health, worker and consumer safety, and the environment."

Medellín has a great sustainable transportation vision for the future, and so far they seem to be executing it extremely well.

It's time to rethink how we dress for work.

The report argues why a beef tax would be an effective step toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions and why we should all be paying more for climate-damaging foods.

It calls for more support of bikes, walking and transit, banning ICE-powered cars sooner.

It changes everything – how you think about bikes and how you think about cars.

Who says you can't take it with you? This micro wind turbine folds into a foot-long cylinder for a portable solution to charging gadgets with clean renewable energy.

The WindPax wind generator fits neatly into a backpack for hiking or can be used in the backyard too.

Four sizes of micro-turbines, designed to be portable personal wind energy stations, are in the works from Janulus.