It also comes with its own beer dispenser, built-in right in the couch.

A smart fridge might well make you fatter and poorer.

It learns your usage patterns but can do a lot more.

In which I try out a smart lighting system in my dumb home.

Who says you have to wait till New Year's to make a fresh start? No time's better than back-to-school season.

This home for a family of three and two cats has been built with efficiency, comfort and health in mind.

I knew that real-time data on our energy use would be interesting. But I wasn't sure how much it would actually save us.

A new study claims that energy efficiency is driving the Smart Home market, but in fact every bit of smart tech is a little vampire.

What is that man smoking?

Alea Labs is introducing the "smart vent 2.0", which again raises the questions we had about Smart Vent 1.0.

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.

Aedas designs a railway station like a hill you can walk on.

It is both a parody of the real estate business and a shocking exposé of Hong Kong Housing

The fashion event's EcoChic Design Awards inspire Asia’s emerging fashion talent to create with minimal textile waste.

A stark example of the the scale of the illegal trade in ivory, and the financial rewards for doing so.

Hong Kong has been trying for a long time, through various 'clean air' measures, to deal with smog that is estimated to cause 3,000 premature deaths every single year.

Tens of millions of sharks are mutilated and left to die slowly each year so that some affluent people in Asia can each soup. This has to stop.

Take a tour of two pioneering rooftop farms that could be the first signs of a growing and much needed movement in a rapidly urbanizing China.

This stunning temporary pavilion utilizes Hong Kong's time-honored bamboo construction methods in conjunction with cutting-edge computational design.

The growing disparity between wealthy and poor is reflected in this shocking photo report on the tiny island city's critical lack of affordable housing.

One design attempts to deal with the problem of plastic bottle caps -- which often get discarded rather than recycled.

It is estimated that around 100 elephants are being killed each day by poachers to meet the growing demand for ivory in Asia.

The CATable will keep the cat off the keyboard.

This is how you pack'em and stack'em.

“Wild Concrete” reveals the unintentional greenery of urban environments through photography.

This crowd-funded design features a special honeycomb structure that is strong enough to be transformed into a stool or table -- yet remains lightweight and flexible enough to stay incognito on your bookshelf.

Vibrantly colored wire is saved from the landfill and woven into recycled fan cages to produce these fresh pieces of furniture.

It would be a good way to further broaden the appeal of electric vehicles.

Featuring an interlocking system that's inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, this desk also has a swappable, modular system for organizing your stuff.

No high-tech bells and whistles here, but tried-and-true strategies are used in this renovation to make a small space feel much bigger.

Different zones are delineated with simple, sculptural structures in this minimalist apartment.

Built with the help of a village's last remaining bamboo weaver, this computer-designed pavilion was built by hand using local materials.

This digitally fabricated project revives a traditional material with new building technologies.

A new proposal for Hong Kong tries to fit people into pipes.

An under-utilized element becomes a bench, a place to eat, nap and store things in this redesigned scheme.

This small apartment doubles as a gallery for a collector of ceramic sculptures.

It reveals what we already know but needs repeating – that more time in nature equals greater happiness in kids.

The dead ones washing up on beaches are "just the tip of the iceberg."

Our photo of the day comes from Sydney Harbour's Clifton Gardens.

Our photo of the day comes from the waters off Sydney, Australia.

As part of their "I Have a Green Job" series, Grist talks to Michael Thompson, a professional bee keeper and co-founder of Chicago Honey Co-op, an agricultural cooperative that's dedicated to chemical-free beekeeping.When

Supporters of protecting the Teghut Forest in northern Armenia from a company's plans to build an open-pit copper mine there have an uphill battle to fight against the perception that mining

The head of a cooperative of honey harvesters, a park guide, and a doctor who uses a garden of medicinal plants to treat asthma and other ailments are

The plight of the bumblebee is a matter of great concern. Their numbers are declining, some species are on the brink of extinction and colony collapse disorder has spread in the U.S. Albert Einstein may (or may not) have said

Environmentalists marched in Istanbul to demand solutions to climate change (L) while members of Greenpeace (R) face jail time for protesting plans to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant. Photos: 350.org (L), Greenpeace Akdeniz

Earlier in the week, the New York Times reported that bees in Brooklyn had started turning red, and their honey was looking like bright red goo. It turned out that

If you like a little sugar in your morning (and late morning, and afternoon) coffee, but don't like the calories, there's a good chance you use one of the many artificial sweeteners on the market. But there's plenty of evidence

If you ask me, the real "Turkish delight" is served at breakfast time: A square of rich, thick kaymak (clotted cream), topped with fresh-off-the-comb honey (bal).

That honey that lines the shelves of your local grocery store probably isn't honey at all.

An innovative eco-tourism project in northeast Turkey will take travelers along ancient nomadic routes to taste artisanal organic honey, meet local beekeepers, and enjoy spectacular scenery along the way.