Sustainable Technologies

We live in an age when DIY has taken on exciting, nerve-wracking connotations. Add in some knowledge and some money from crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, and you have a recipe for a transformed world. Will glow-in-the-dark plants be a part of it?

ByNicholas Gerbis

As far back as 1500 B.C.E., people were trying to purify water to make it drinkable. And we're still at it. Today inventors use tools as simple as clay and as sophisticated as carbon nanotubes to bring clean water to the world.

ByPatrick J. Kiger

In Africa's Ivory Coast, a group of women saw a need and came together to collect plastic for recycling into bricks to build schools.

ByMichelle Konstantinovsky

Cockroaches are taking a big bite out of a Chinese city's trash problem.

ByLoraine Fick

The future of electric cars is changing as Sweden builds the world's first electrified road that will charge vehicles as they drive.

ByJesslyn Shields