As John Laumer noted earlier, there is a lot of useful stuff in pee, but we dilute it with gallons of water, send it down big pipes mixed with everything else, and suddenly we have monstrous networks of waste piping, sewage treatment plants and water

And it's not just lefty TreeHuggers who are outraged; Everybody is in on this war of words

The Polluted Water Popsicles project is meant to shock viewers into realizing how serious water contamination is in Taiwan.

Scientists say levels are dangerously high, affecting wildlife and ecosystems.

The agency tried to suppress a major toxicology report on perfluoroalkyl chemicals, but now it's been quietly released online -- with alarming conclusions.

Plastic is often thought of as an ocean contaminant, but it's in our freshwater lakes, too.

Despite their endless commuting, ants don't have traffic jams, regardless of the width of their path.

Meanwhile, cars and trucks keep getting bigger and higher. It's time to do something.

So much of the economy changes if cars last five times as long and hardly need service.

The Toronto Star's list is useful but incomplete.

So much for the "sharing economy". North Americans don't like sharing cars or parking spaces.

The only things that ever seems to affect SUV and pickup sales are the economy and the price of gas.

Break out the gold lamé, Grandma, and trip the light fantastic!

Two misfortunate advertising campaigns from Argentina use polar bears and tackiness to promote air conditioning.

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko from The Associated Press have a blockbuster piece of reporting on the dozens of ways Monsanto's chemical fertilizers and pesticides are poisoning the people of Argentina.

Small changes in weather can have big consequences for many animals, including the beautiful Magellanic penguin found at the tip of South-America.

Designed for safety and comfort, this sharing bike looks similar to a standard bike, allowing friends to easily hop on and off.

The province hopes to reinforce child and family wellbeing by providing basic supplies up front, as well as long term mentoring.

Cars kept running into a big rock in a Calgary parking lot, perhaps because it didn't make eye contact.

Concerned citizens want Parks Canada to consider visitor quotas.

Ethics and environmental consciousness drove this project by DIALOG at the University of Calgary.

The climate crisis and peak oil demand are making expensive projects like Alberta's Teck Frontier look like bad investments.

Image credit: Karen, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Say an average fancy t-shirt holds carbon footprint of 6kg but is never sold and sits in the warehouse of a textile/clothing production company. I take that same t-shirt and use it to

When you buy a Boerum top, you'll know everything about where and how that item was produced.

The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other!

Here's a building that saves up to 50% CO2 by controlling the sunlight with screens on its facade.

From what food to buy to how to access your medical records, here are the practical matters to consider before a pandemic strikes.

A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.

A condo in Manhattan and a mixed use 12 story building in Portland get a boost.

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.

... in the place where people understand the risks of living in an anti-globalist, post-fact era

Experts blame urban sprawl for the increased number of attacks.

Chewy, salty, and impossible to stop eating, they're the next best thing to an actual trip to Brazil (especially when paired with a caipirinha).

A process that recycles cigarette butts into bricks for construction could kick a nasty littering habit.

First there was foamcrete, then there was papercrete and hempcrete, and now we've got AirCrete, a foamy mixture of air bubbles and cement.

This may be the perfect way to serve sweet potatoes; it's easy, delicious, and beautiful to behold.

NASA finds that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying out – here's why.

Even a full day later, a one-hour shift in the clock is hard to adjust to.

A Tesla won't get a camel through the eye of a needle.

Or are they just fooling themselves and being selfish?

They have always been controversial, and they may well be counterproductive.

A lotta lentils.

Design for deconstruction out of low-carbon materials is the way of the future.

It is as counterintuitive as it is true: Around the world, communities who have resided on the land the longest often have the most tenuous rights to that land.

A new generation of succesful for-profit, mission-driven businesses are serving energy-hungry communities across the globe.

The large solar-powered box will help farmers get more food to the market for selling.

The batteries could provide back-up power for small solar power systems.

When it comes to communicating an alignment with personal values, it doesn’t get more personal than social media.

How many of these common items have you placed in your blue bin?

Whether they are growing to be thousands of years old, making life-long friendships or confounding us with their resilience, trees provide to us invaluable material resources.