Non-profit organizations can now use the site to run fundraising campaigns and the simplicity could make a big impact.

Last year before Greenbuild in Chicago, one of America's best architecture critics, Blair Kamin, wrote the introduction to Chicago for GreenSource Magazine. So I was pretty nervous when I was asked to write this year's introduction to Toronto; That is

The buildup is over; Greenbuild has opened in Toronto. I will be heading out to tweet and report from the Convention Centre for the next three days, and round up my buildup posts herein.

All kinds of interesting people were at Greenbuild.

It's like watching paint dry.

He started an institute for making the world more playful and loving.

It's a big step forward for the high-tech timber industry.

This winter-proofed van is now home to two engineers who love the outdoors.

Image source: Sun Strides Sun Strides is merging two things that southern Californian's love - the sun and athletic activities - to raise funds for solar projects in Africa. 5, 10, 15K, whatever your passion or punishment, there is a spot for you at the

So you hit a gnarly wave and end up on shore with your board in two pieces. Bummer dude. But your green side can't bear to just trash that board that's gotten you through some pretty wild rides. You could repair it yourself,

Image via: Project Kasei on Flickr Project Kaisei, the mission to research and figure out just what the heck we're going to do about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, made it to the Gyre just a few days ago. Their results: yep, there's a lot of plastic

Ordinary humans can see about 1 million colors, but thanks to a genetic mutation, this artist can see an estimated 100 million colors.

We spend billions of dollars on over-the-counter cough medicine, but numerous studies find it’s not effective. Try these tips instead.

Pinpointing the sources of myths that threaten the health of children could help get the truth out to where it is needed

Scientists have created a mobile bioprinter that when filled with a patient's cells, prints skin directly into a wound.

Getting enough nutrients from food reduces risk of death, not the same could be said for nutrients in pill form. And in fact, some supplements were linked to increased risk of death.

Lead? Aerobic bacteria? Misleading labels? Consumer Reports tested popular brands of the widely used supplements; here's what they found.

And it reduces food waste!

A pinch of ingenuity can transform sad-looking ingredients into something desirable.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've finally reached peak TreeHugger.

When rob Hopkins watched "An Inconvenient Truth", he vowed never to fly again. When he watched "Chasing Ice", he decided to get back on a plane. Here's why.

It is a cup as service, rather than cup as product.

Alice + Whittles makes use of high-quality materials that would otherwise go to waste.

UC Berkeley’s new robot is the most vertically agile robot ever built – why is it so unnerving?

Drones can continually monitor active volcanoes to help with advanced warnings of eruptions.

A big publisher says the former; an author says the latter. What do you think?

Does the state of Michigan need a wolf hunt? Voters will get the chance to weigh in.

Cut the grass will you?...Are you done edging?....Time to water the

The electricity grid can handle a ban, ten years earlier than law makers are aiming for.

The machines are popping up at grocery stores in Norway.

Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.

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

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

Electric bikes are the great leveller; a lot more people will be doing this.

This is the kind of gentle density we need.

For Monsanto, superweeds are just another selling point for its products.

When reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the Environmental Protection Agency considered just five independent studies, and 27 industry-funded studies.

A judge has ruled against Monsanto; company complains that it would drive some customers away. Unsealed documents add to drama.

Weed killer, it's what's for breakfast! Glyphosate found in 43 of 45 conventional oat products tested by EWG.

EWG tested 28 brands of conventional oat-based cereals; they all had glyphosate residue, most of them above healthy standards

In a word, no. Ford can sell this fiction, but it is all about friction.

Docked electric cars can be worse than dockless scooters for pedestrians, but the UEone is a step in the right direction.

E-bikes will eat cars, and H2 bikes will eat Toyotas.

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

If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow

Darya Pino of Summer Tomato prepared this terrific flow chart to help navigate the supermarket.Marion Nestle of Food Politics liked it, noting:

Doctors from the University of Mississippi dissected two nuggets and were shocked by what they found.

The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being made in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades.

We have to slow down and smell the coffee, and it might actually be fun.

Back in 2009, the EPA was sued for "abdicating leadership" on protecting Chesapeake Bay. Part of clean water advocates' anger was directed at a lack of geographical targeting for agricultural conservation funding. But