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By Janet Larsen When New York City opened registration for its much anticipated public bike-sharing program on April 15, 2013, more than 5,000 people signed up within 30 hours. Eager for access to a fleet of thousands of bicycles, they became Citi B...

Paul Polak, an internationally acclaimed social entrepreneur who wants to eradicate poverty using business and technology. He is the author of the book Out of Poverty and founded International Deve...

This article is part of the Energy.gov series celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Energy Depar...

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A new app allows you to scan a product in the supermarket aisle and learn who exactly is behind that box of cereal. More impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott groups of companies who may have lobbied against a cause you believe...

We all know that bicycling is best way to decrease our carbon footprint, save money on transportation costs, and keep our butts in steely form. Heck, bikeability is even good for real estate value of your house! Need more- here's 10 reasons why bikin...

Taken the train lately? If you live outside of the United States, probably: travel by rail, whether for daily commutes or longer trips, is cheap and convenient in most of the developed world. Here in the US, though, commuter rail is limited to urban ...

UPDATE: Added another plan to the list... this one made from tin cans. Just back from a weekend trip up to the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, and between board meetings, was able to join in with the community's annual open house and Village Fair. Many, ...

What does the "S" in Model S stand for? The most obvious association that comes to mind is "Sedan", but what if Tesla makes a coupe version of the Model S? Sort of throws a wrench into things. Still, after seeing this latest rendering from Theophilus...

The power outages caused by Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Sandy were shocks to the many people. The outage caused by Ivan lasted more than three weeks in some places, and I unfortunately was unprepared for that, so I know how power outages feel. I wa...