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#1 metro area in US for electric car growth is no longer in California

If you thought the top market for electric car growth was somewhere in California, you'd be right many months out of the year, but not the 4th quarter of 2013.




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Can SUBSPORT Help Chemical Companies Move Towards Safer Alternatives?

The Substitution Support Portal SUBSPORT launched this week, intending to give business improved tools for substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes.




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Bisphenol A Now Illegal In American Baby Bottles and Sippy Cups, No Thanks to FDA

It seems that the only people who benefit from this rule change are the members of the American Chemistry Council who make BPA.




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Happy 83rd Birthday, American beer can. Now go away.

There is no place for you in a healthy, circular economy, and this is nothing to celebrate




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Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show

At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical




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The Man Who Stopped the Desert - How One Man Saved the Soil (Video)

From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary




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Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project

The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of




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Growing an oasis in the desert and bananas in Massachusetts

"If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere," says Geoff Lawton. So let's get started.




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How to reverse desertification. With rocks.

Could strategically-placed rock walls help to re-green the desert?




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Clever rainwater garden grows squash and corn in Arizona desert

When you've got a lot of driveway runoff, some careful landscaping can put it to good use.




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It hadn't rained here in centuries – now it's raining and everything's dying

Recent rains attributed to a changing climate are leading to mass extinction in the Atacama Desert.




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The US is drowning in natural gas, yet they keep drilling and fracking

There is so much that they can't burn it here, so they compress it, liquify it, and ship it. That's not working out too well either.




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Swedish company is building wind turbine towers out of timber

It seems that you can build just about anything out of wood.




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Put a power plant in your living room

Ampere Energy has developed a battery that fits in your minimalist apartment.




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Why is Canada fighting over a gas pipeline to nowhere?

The world is awash in LNG that's a lot closer to the ocean and a lot cheaper to move.




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How many people will Trump's fuel efficiency rollback kill?

Thanks to COVID-19, a lot more than previously thought.




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Photo: Beautiful barn owl soars over a field

Our photo of the day comes from the Essex countryside.




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Photo: California towhee is the picture of spring

Our photo of the day comes from Atascadero, California.




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Photo: Bitty burrowing owl peeks out from below

Our photo of the day features one of the smallest of North American owls.




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Photo: Baby song sparrows sing for their supper

Our photo of the day is a lesson in singing and building.




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Why are London's house sparrows disappearing?

If you guessed that climate-crisis-fueled, disease-carrying mosquitoes are wiping them out, you may be correct.




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Photo: Snowy egret is the epitome of elegance

Some birds are charming, others majestic or graceful; the subject for our daily photo has it all.




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Photo: Pelicans put on an air show

Our photo of the day comes from Cape San Blas, Florida.




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Photo: Tiny owl, prodigious personality

Our photo of the day proves that size doesn't matter.




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Photo: Great gray owl goes hunting

Our majestic photo of the day comes from Quebec, Canada.




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Salvage Supperclub teaches us how to eat everything

A Brooklyn dinner party turns "dumpster diving" into an informative meal.




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Marlow Goods offers farm-to-table purses

These designer bags from Brooklyn are made with local leather.




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Brooklyn building shows that Passive Houses can have apartments too

Although the term “Passive House” might seem to refer to single family homes, these concepts can be applied to all kinds of buildings.




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Tour a Brooklyn treehouse built from an old water tower

A charming treehouse is made from recycled wood and glass.




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A writing pavilion grows in Brooklyn

Architentions design a lovely "parallel imaginative world"




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Brooklyn's new community micro-grid will allow for peer-to-peer renewable energy sharing

Solar panels, distributed energy, resilient microgrids, and blockchain. Oh my!




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Futuristic Urban Farm Pod grows food at home -- from cell cultures (Video)

Tomorrow's home urban farm may not need soil, just an Urban Farm Pod that doubles as an extra living space (emphasis on the "living").




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Here's a modernist desk that grows with a child into adulthood (Video)

Hand-made with high quality, sustainably harvested woods, this is one desk meant for both kids and grown-ups.




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Brooklyn's modular tower: What a long strange trip it's been

FC Modular, that "cracked the code" of tall modular, is no more.




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Successful coworking spaces should be built like 'intentional communities'

Great coworking spaces aren't just about "sharing desks" -- just like other intentional communities where people share resources, they need a common vision and more.




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Skinny Brooklyn rowhouse renovation makes room for family of four

From an existing two-storey transformed into four compact floors, this 11 ft. wide house is redone into a much more spacious home.




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Living & working have their own transparent spaces in these Zen Houses

Instead of combining the two poles of work and leisure, this simple and functional design separates them into distinct volumes.




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How to start a circular economy in your hometown

Fed up with the disposable culture we all live in, two women from Portland, Oregon, founded a low-waste company to help the entire city cut back on plastic.




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Another Major Blow for Carbon Capture, This Time It Involves the "C" Word

Mongstad industrial area at night. Photo Tøssekaien via flickr. The Norwegians have been big supporters of carbon capture and storage, and the government helped get the public to go along with building of a gas-fired plant near an existing oil refinery




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Duke University Turns Pig Poop into Power (Video)

Image credit: Duke University Duke University's Bleed Blue, Live Green campaign created a clamor of attention from fans wanting to get hold of a limited edition shirt. So much so, we had to post a follow up on where to find the green Duke shirts. I'm




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How would you react if your kid's school announced it was 'zero waste'?

It turns out that some parents are less than thrilled.




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3 reasons why Halloween is great for kids

Enough with the negativity. Let's talk about why this spooky celebration rocks.




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Yes, your kid can eat snow

It's safe as long as you teach them some basic guidelines.




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How to thrive during a lockdown with kids

School closures mean kids will be spending a lot more time at home. Here's some advice on how to cope.




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Teach your child how to read a paper map

It's an old-fashioned skill, but it's still relevant in today's world.




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The Ocean Conservancy’s annual photo contest is now open

Calling all ocean lovers and shutterbugs, the 11th edition of this fabulous photo contest is accepting submissions.




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How to upcycle pallets into "rustic-industrial" stuff for your home

Remember pallets? Remember infographics? We have both in one post!




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Every cool town should have a hot community sauna like this one in Helsinki

The Lonna Sauna, designed by OOPEAA, warms my heart.




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Joris Laarman Lab shows the future of digital design

An exhibition of their work is at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.




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6 reasons you should buy "slow furniture"

Fast furniture is like fast food or fast fashion; here's why you should go slow and how you do it.