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.

And the Oatmeal says " I'm ready for our army of Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots."

These may be limited to 25 MPH, but the era of autonomous cars is coming at us really fast.

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

It's cheap, it works and Oh, the places you'll go.

I, for one, welcome the arrival of soft and sticky google cars.

A fleet of the cars mapped methane leaks in three major cities and the results aren't good.

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

The rollout starts in Seattle, then more broadly.

Why doesn't form follow function?

Now, if only we could get US drivers out of their trucks.

And will gas cars suffer as a result?

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

Price is no longer the main obstacle. Lack of understanding might be.

British scientists do the math and find that we come up short for cobalt, lithium and copper.

As prices drop and range increases, more and more people are going electric.

Or, once again, why electric cars [on their own] won't save us.

Michael Pollan writes in the New York Times about the connection between the American diet and the cost of health care; Surprisingly, conservative writers like Marie-Josée Kravis are saying much the same thing,

Wikipedia carries a definition of Arabbers which includes this:An arabber (or a-rab) is a

Not waiting for national legislation to set a price on carbon and kickstart the journey to a low-carbon future, Montgomery County, Maryland has enacted one the country's first carbon taxes. Passed by a vote of 8-to-1 the tax

Thanks to an exception for "electric or non-fossil-fuel-burning vehicles". Maybe all other states could do that so that other EV makers don't have to face what Tesla is facing?

The covering-yourself-with-blankets movement isn't nearly as cuddly as it seems.

Finally, people are beginning to take this issue seriously.

But some people are beginning to take the issue seriously. Anthony Pak writes a good article about it for Canadian Architect.

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

A growing number of cities are getting serious about tackling the climate emergency.

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost

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

It also can put people back to work and save our forests.

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

George Monbiot says you don't set targets in an emergency, you act.

At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new

The BMW i8 is now in production, and final i8 details have just been unveiled.

Actually, a bit more than 100%.

Test out your green car awareness by seeing if you can name the 2014 World Green Car of the Year. Note: it has to be a new model.

The EPA has just released official "fuel economy" and range information for the BMW i3 100% electric car.

Ed. note: This is now the fifth post in the Green Basics series of posts that TreeHugger is writing to provide basic information about important ideas, materials and technologies for new greenies (or those who just need a quick refresher). Read on and

Ed. note: We're now up to the sixth post in the Green Basics series of posts that TreeHugger is writing to provide basic information about important ideas, materials and technologies for new greenies (or those who just need a quick refresher). Read on

In addition to metrics like ecological footprint, each of us (and each of the products and services we use and consume every day) has a carbon footprint; it's a way to measure the relative impact of our actions -- as individuals, as businesses,

End goals for CO2 emissions are just one part of the picture. How fast we start moving toward them is just as important.

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.

In what is said to be a first for automakers, Ford is developing foams and plastics using captured carbon dioxide, which could be integrated into the company's vehicles within five years.

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

Stanford scientists figure out a way to get hydrogen out of seawater. Does this matter?

It was, in 1958, the worlds largest clear span. The Union Tank Car Building was 384 feet in diameter, 128 feet high. "It was just big and magnificent," Fuller biographer Jay Baldwin said to Kansas City Star reporter Mike Hendricks. "It was a

Buckminster Fuller 's 1933 Dymaxion car was a marvel. Architect Norman Foster tells Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian: "The Dymaxion had the same engine and transmission as the Ford Sedan of the time," says Foster, who worked

At the time of its construction the Union Tank Car Dome was the biggest clear span structure in the world. It was demolished in 2008 (see Another