Instead of banning these technologies, we have to figure out how to manage them. Because they are inevitable.

Eat simpler food.

The move comes as a result of a petition from Greenpeace Southeast Asia, which asserts that GM crops can cause serious health issues.

On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia, eating Philly Greens.

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.

Another look at a controversial housing project.

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

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.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

The Grand Inga dam will be double the size of China's Three Gorges, but big questions remain about whether ordinary Africans will actually get its electricity.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by 2018 renewable should overtake natural gas to become the world's second-largest source of energy (oil is #1).

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

Take one Estream and add moving water for clean, quiet, offgrid energy.

Income for farmers, or fracked natural gas—will communities be allowed to decide?

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

With the cost of cement electric power poles and

We often write about technologies that harness energy from your steps. Here's how you can make your own piezoelectric sneakers at home.

An international music festival in the slums of Nairobi is unusual enough. But one that plans to stop a dam and save an indigenous way of life? Let's party.

There's been much talk of Africa "leapfrogging" the paradigm of fossil fuel dependence. Kenya's latest announcement on solar power provides a vision of what that might look like.

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

It's not quite as dramatic as it sounds. It's simply a good demonstration of the power of regenerative braking!

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.

It took three years, but Hōkūle’a made the impressive journey using only ancient Polynesian navigational methods.

More pedestrians are getting killed in the roads. Are their phones really the reason?

We still need a ton more renewable energy in order to combat climate change, but the good news is that renewable energy is picking up the pace.

Eben Weiss, the Bike Snob, is an unexpected source for this proposal to save the environment.

Instead of tossing it, fisheries should capture the protein and fat left in water and use it to feed humans and animals a second time around.

No they don't. Whether or not you buy into this study, the fact remains that cars are cars are cars.

The technology could lead to cheaper hydrogen cars in the future.

Between 2002 and 2015, these 'streamer lines' helped reduce seabird by-catch in Alaskan fisheries by 78%.

Sarah and I have spent the better

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.

For three days this summer, a local host could show you why their country consistently ranks among the happiest in the world.

This is something North American governments should copy.

There are everywhere, they are fun, and there is so much to learn from them.

On some days, wind generated as much as 234% of demand.

The GoSun Fusion probably won’t save the world, but the design thinking behind it might.

The Lancey electric space heater allows users to charge its battery during off-peak hours and use the electricity for heating during peak demand periods.

Previously titled "4 reasons why heat pumps are not going to save the planet" which was mean to heat pumps.

A weekly wrap up of green and socially minded business news from the gang at TriplePundit.com.

Intrepid Travel's latest offering is an uncharted journey that starts in Tehran and ends in Istanbul.

Besides looking lovely, all proceeds from this lamp will go to a project that is developing electricity-free lighting that is inspired by nature.

Because bridges are for people.

Mohamed Nasheed says his conviction is a foregone conclusion.

A mother's fight to protect her children and her tribe

Latino students are exposed to higher levels of pesticides. But the EPA and parents clash over what should be done.

Our photo of the day comes from the rainforest of Ecuador.

If this plan even halfway succeeds, oil companies will be in serious trouble.

Supported by the Amrita Bhoomi Agroecology Centre, young farmers are experimenting with natural farming methods, while saving money and lives in the process.

The indigenous Chenchu people say they know the real way to save India's tigers.