Cities
This massive retirement home would grow its own food
The proposal for this beautiful building has us drooling over its emphasis on fresh food and community, and it isn't even built yet.
A million trees grow in Brooklyn
Well, Brooklyn and the other four bouroughs -- thanks to a 10-year campaign to green up the city's parks and streets.
Meet the BART-stopping woman behind “Black Lives Matter”
Two activists who devised the phrase "Black Lives Matter" discuss its origins -- and why they took their demonstration to the Bay Area's transit system last week.
Here’s what your city will look like when the ice sheets melt
Greenland and Antarctica won't melt in our lifetimes, but these maps give us a glimpse of what our descendants are in for.
Turn your city into a swarm of robot farms
A California company is fixing to fill up urban nooks and crannies with plugin farming systems.
After Ferguson, we must ask: Who owns the streets?
The crime that sparked the deadly encounter between Ferguson Mo., police officer Darren Wilson and 18-year-old Michael Brown? Jaywalking.
Of course Portland wants you to bike to the airport
Cycling to PDX can even offset about 1 percent of your flight's carbon emissions.
Whatever, Tesla, this guy just invented a real flying car
The Terrafugia Transition will go down in history as the first ever commercially available flying car AND the worst name ever given to a product of any sort.
In the ski business, there are no climate deniers
Ski season is just beginning in California, but real snow on the slopes is becoming a rarity.
