Wild City Mapping: Interactive online sharing of wild urban spaces (Video)
This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.
Montreal's 2014 Tour de l'Île: 25,000 people on a 50km bike ride around the city! (video)
One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!
Super-fun bike adventures in Montreal! (videos)
What's more fun than riding with 25,000 people through car-free streets on a beautiful day (and night)?
The best bar soaps for every body part
With disinfecting and sanitizing on everyone's mind, good old-fashioned bar soap has never been more necessary. It's still possible to go plastic-free, too. These are the best bar soaps for every body part.
Want to go plastic-free? Start with one thing.
Slow, incremental changes are more effective than trying to do it all at once.
Producers could finally be responsible for packaging waste in Ontario
The Canadian province is overhauling its recycling program, which would include holding producers accountable for their wasteful packaging designs.
We need a BYOC (bring your own cutlery) movement
Reusability beats out biodegradability any day.
So much plastic is being made that "recycling has no impact"
A Canadian scientist wants us to rethink our approach to plastic and challenge the colonial system that produces it.
Vancouver grocer uses embarrassing slogans to discourage plastic bag use
Unfortunately, people like the slogans a bit too much.
Trudeau says Canada will ban single-use plastics as early as 2021
The prime minister also mentioned holding companies responsible for the packaging waste they create.
Recycling rates improve when people know what items will become
Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.
Sidewalk Labs: A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or a brazen corporate highjack?
The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.
Sidewalk Labs releases its vision for Toronto's waterfront
It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen?
Google looks to salt and antifreeze for renewable energy storage
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is experimenting with a new energy storage technology.
Dandelion: an audacious and radical geothermal energy startup?
Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.
Google Street View cars turned into gas leak detectors
A fleet of the cars mapped methane leaks in three major cities and the results aren't good.
Google will be able to offset 100% of electricity needs with renewable energy in 2017
The tech giant has hit this major renewable energy goal ahead of all its competitors.
Nevermind, there won't be a modular smartphone after all
Alphabet, Google's parent company, has scrapped the release of the Project Ara phone.
Google's Project Ara modular smartphone is finally being released
But is it truly modular?
Google's Project Sunroof now available in 42 states
Want to know if you can go solar? Now there's a good chance you can easily find out.
Google creates Science Journal app to inspire the next generation of scientists and makers
The app lets kids and adults alike explore, measure and test the world around them.
Google cars will stick it to the man
I, for one, welcome the arrival of soft and sticky google cars.
Big tech companies join fight for clean power standards
Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have joined together to support Obama's Clean Power Plan as it faces legal opposition.
If you get all your news here, you may be living in a bubble
We're all friends here, right? So I can talk honestly?
Google Buys 781MW of Wind, Solar, and 73 more companies demand a strong climate deal
Big business may be coming to the climate party late. But it is making its presence known.
Google Maps lets you explore what's at stake in Paris climate talks
Conservation organizations used Google Street View cameras to document the places, animals and people most vulnerable to climate change.
Google Glass heads into the operating room
The optical display device that is often the subject of ridicule has proven itself to be a very valuable asset to surgeons.
Google to encircle the globe with internet balloons next year
The ring of giant Project Loon balloons will bring data service to people living below.
Why millennials are destroying our infrastructure, and why bike lanes destroy religious freedom
And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.
INDEX: Google Cardboard may be the next very big thing.
It's cheap, it works and Oh, the places you'll go.
Virtually climb El Capitan with Google Street View
The Street View cameras now take you on extreme vertical tours alongside famous climbers.
Google to transform carcass of Alabama coal power plant into clean-powered datacenter
Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.
10 beautiful underwater views from Google Street View
Take a virtual tour of these amazing spots.
Google's self-driving car hits the road this summer
These may be limited to 25 MPH, but the era of autonomous cars is coming at us really fast.
How a cheap plywood temporary building became the inspiration for Google's new headquarters
It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.
Google's new HQ, designed by BIG and Thomas Heatherwick, says a lot about the company
If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work.
The Google car is ready to hit the road
And the Oatmeal says " I'm ready for our army of Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots."
Staggering e-waste numbers revealed in grim new report
Picture this: In 2016 the world generated enough e-waste to fill a line of 18-wheelers from New York to Bangkok and back.
The awful reality of e-waste as told in numbers
From 50 million tons of e-waste generated annually to 350,000 cell phones thrown away every day, the numbers behind our digital addiction are staggering.
Battery recycling machine gives grocery store coupons in exchange for your old batteries
The machines are popping up at grocery stores in Norway.
E-waste is growing rapidly in Asia
As Asian countries buy more electronics, the piles of discarded devices are increasing and it's putting people in danger.
2020 Tokyo Olympics medals will be made from metals recovered from e-waste
By reclaiming precious metals from its 'urban mine' of obsolete electronics, Japan may be able to produce the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from recycled materials.
Fungi can recycle your smartphone battery
The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.
Computer chips made from wood could biodegrade
The innovation could mean less e-waste at the end of our electronics' lives.
Growing recycling programs help us inch closer to Zero Waste
Looking beyond traditional recyclables and the "blue bin", here are some of the organizations and companies seeking to redefine what we consider trash with alternative recycling initiatives and methods of reuse.
6 ways to do good with your old cell phone
Donating your old cell phones to these causes will keep them out of landfills and help others too.
The true impact of not recycling our old electronics
Here are some staggering numbers of what could be saved.
New York makes it illegal to put electronics in the trash
Starting in 2015, it will be illegal to leave computers and other electronic for curb-side pickup, as part of an effort to fight e-waste.
New smartphone coating could make your screen shatterproof
A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.
10 recycling and waste management trends to look out for in the near future
There's a lot to look forward to, but what should we expect to see more of in the short-term?