(Image via: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratories) The planet has a fever – and how we cool it down is the challenge of the century.  How do we…

(Image via: Matt McGee) Our relationship to ultraviolet light is an environmental pickle. On the one hand, Westerners chase that perfect…

(Images via: JFE Engineering) Cycling is a wonderfully practical, dazzlingly green answer to our urban transport problems (not to mention a fun,…

(Image via: Planetary Gear) Now that Winter is drawing in, we start to appreciate the things taken for granted in the balmier months – such as…

(Image via: Inhabitat) As world-savingly admirable as wind turbines are…well, they kinda stick out. Putting aside the question of whether the…

(Images via:  YLighting) Are we making the most of the creative possibilies of LEDs? From the fan-cooled SoL R38 to the coolant-filled 360…

Solar energy may seem freely available to anyone with the right tools to collect it, but there is still a price we have to pay – and it is…

Trying to limit the environmental impact of your kitchen? No matter how many food scraps you compost or eco-friendly detergents you use, there…

Image via: Gana Art Gallery. Think that there’s nothing uglier than an evil-smelling, dust-streaked pile of old car tires? You need the…

(Image via: maxblack) Tire recycling is on a roll. Only a few decades ago, the world had little or no idea what to do with the hundreds of…

(Image via: Zedomax) In our search for the best way to array our new-fangled solar paneling, we’re going back to the oldest design of all. A…

(Image via: Inhabitat) Isn’t it about time airships took off in a big way? While report after report comes out condemning aviation as a grave…

It is one of mankind’s best, greenest inventions. It spearheads an industry that thrives even in the depths of a global recession. And…it is…

There are few sights and sounds more able to instill us with delicious, jellifying terror than a full-blooded lighting storm. There are 16…