Hurricane Ike caused gas prices in Houston to rise 20 cents a gallon this week. In Canada, gas prices went up about 13 cents, putting some pump prices at $1.36 a litre, and these gas prices are only supposed…

Towbin Dodge, the ‘King of Cars,’ is switching brands to reflect the changing market. Towbin Dodge will drop the gas-guzzling Hummer line in favor of more diminutive gas-sippers: the Smart micro car and…

The London Design Festival will soon feature British designer Lee Broom’s new Rough Diamond collection of illuminated chairs. His work will be on show at the Brick Lane Gallery.

What Lee Broom has done…

Apopo, the Belgian Charity has recently secured $1,000,000 in funding to train African giant rats to detect land mines in war torn countries. The money is a three-year Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship…

Directorial studio Three Legged Legs used a new spin on the environmental PSA for their short film “Humans!” by depicting the human race as a parasite on a personified Earth.

Greg Gunn, Casey Hunt and…

The U.S. is getting fatter and now a study indicates crime television may be a big, fat, contribution to overeating. ‘Law and Order,’ all the CSI’s, ‘Cold Case,’ ‘The Closer,’ and all of their respective…

Life as a University of California at Berkeley bus driver just got much easier; researchers have tested a self-steering bus that actually works.

Developed by California Partners for Advanced Transit…

Who says scientific instruments have to be black and gray? The Large Hadron Collider is a rainbow of colors that have lured and inspired photographers to catalog the Hadron Collider as a work of art. The…

Smart USA, the European microcar, has made a deal with a New York City parking lot owner so two cars can park for the price of one at city lots. The Smart is just over 8 feet long and two Smart Cars will…

This F-4E Phantom fighter stands in the climatic chamber of a £30,000,000 aerospace test center in Seosan, South Korea. While this may not be appropriate for every household, there are five reasons that…

In an age where everyone is going green, San Antonio, Texas stands out as the lone vanguard city going brown.  City officials recently announced a new plan to become the first U.S. city to transform methane…

The Backpack Bicycle transformer is the ultimate combination of health and eco-technology.  The folding bicycle, designed and developed by Chang Ting Jen, does not appear to be available in stores yet,…

The sheer power and beauty of nature are baffling, as these images of underwater lakes and rivers show. The third and sixth images in this gallery were only discovered after their massive cave domes collapsed.…

Alila Hotels and Resorts is carefully building more eco-luxury retreats, this time deep in the Maldives.

Alila Fillas Hadahaa is set in the Gaafu Alifu Atoll, an area containing endangered coral reefs.…