People are being killed every day and the problem is the design of our streets as much as the cars and drivers.

A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.

Kidney failure is killing sugarcane workers in Central America who supply sugar for both our sweet tooth and demand for ethanol.

The UK organization wants schools to incorporate that time into their daily curriculum.

Sensors on cell phones is a concept that has gone mainstream enough that this Kickstarter project has blown its funding goals out of the water. The device turns your cell phone into a "Swiss Army Knife of environmental sensors."

The rare earth metals mining industry is one rife with issues. But is there a way to green up the business?

Lawns use up way too much water.

Wait, there's more! It slices! It dices!

Pull out the ionization detectors and go photoelectric.

Where I was preoccupied with everything Herman Miller after a tour of their factories

It sounds counter-intuitive to say the least, but a team of scientists has discovered that running barefoot is better for your feet. What!

Image: Fiskars If it's true that gas-powered lawn mowers crank out 5% of the nation's air pollution, then it's truly time to consider workable alternatives. If we haven't convinced you to replace your lawn with a xeriscape or food forest, you might want

Celebrities buying plots of land to block developments is the new new. Last year people opposed to the third runway at Heathrow Airport bought up a plot in the middle of the runway in an attempt to thwart it. Now opponents to

It's not pretty, but a fact of life, gardens are rich pickings for thieves.

Is it time to ban these useless and unnecessary noise and pollution machines?

photo: Rebecca Wilson/CC BY Editors note: The following guest post is by Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati an American-born renunciate at Parmarth Niketan ashram in Rishikesh, India (full bio below). While this post may be a bit broader than other items in the

Natural light is free and plentiful and the day is long.

That's compared to 624 in the whole of 2017...

More on why the 626 environmental groups demanding action on climate change shouldn't be doctrinaire.

E-waste is a big problem, but there is also a counter-trend that helps fight it.

Chances are, your holiday gifts may include an electronic gadget or two, and a new initiative aims to encourage and support the proper disposal and recycling of the old ones.

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

Here are some staggering numbers of what could be saved.

Donating your old cell phones to these causes will keep them out of landfills and help others too.

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.

The machines are popping up at grocery stores in Norway.

And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.

We're all friends here, right? So I can talk honestly?

The app lets kids and adults alike explore, measure and test the world around them.

Unfortunately, people like the slogans a bit too much.

Reusability beats out biodegradability any day.

One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!

One of the biggest challenges of making cities more bike friendly is that most of the road space is already "used up." Adding bike lanes means removing something. That's when a bit of perspective comes in handy.

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

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.

The #1 most-used herbicide in the world is in you, me, and our pee. Should we do something?

Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights, "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes

Via Calorielab we learn of yet another thing that makes you fat: eating at your desk. It appears that when you are not paying attention to your food, you eat more and remember less.Researchers at The Universty

Now Michael Pollan's Food Rules wasn't my favorite book of his, but it was a best-seller and a new edition is being written--and Pollan is in general a fine writer. To help craft it Pollan is partnering with Slow Food USA for a user-generated portion

Attend your own green film fest at home with filmmakers' live Q&A

By controlling portion size and refusing to overeat, particularly in restaurants, we can reduce food waste and remind ourselves of the true value of food.

Tweaking your computer's energy saving settings is a no-brainer. But that's just the trouble: the computer is making a "dumb" decision to dim the monitor or go to sleep after a preset time. VeryPC, the British maker of energy-efficient

The dog days of summer are right around the corner and homeowners are looking for ways to

Today's technology makes dishwashers much more water and energy efficient than hand washing dishes. Here are some tips for taking that efficiency to the next level.

Quickly get connected via video chat to a home & garden expert to get help with your projects through Fountain. We've got beta invites for you to check it out yourself.

Many users replace their smartphones every couple of years, even though they have years of life left in them. Here's how to keep your smartphone for longer while keeping up its performance.

Proper care can go a long way toward extending a garment's life.

That's right, in communities across the US, recycling bins are now being outfitted with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips. And if you don't recycle, they'll let you know that they know.Savannah, GA,

Located in Rotterdam, this Concept House features a huge rooftop garden, and uses natural heating and cooling techniques to keep maintenance costs down.

A traditional dwelling has been preserved by renovating it to include a new office, library, kitchen and guest room.