Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.

Green and sustainable used to be buzzwords here. They don't appear to even exist anymore.

Residents in North Omaha want clean energy, not the coal pollution they're getting now.

Our photo of the day comes from the rainforest of Ecuador.

Research reveals that bed bugs develop resistance to widely used chemical treatments, potentially paving the way for super bed bugs.

Our photo of the day illustrates the whimsical world of camouflage.

Our photo of the day illustrates why the word 'caterpillar' (literally, shaggy cat) makes perfect sense.

But you might get a bit gassy.

These impressive feats of architecture and engineering are one of India's traditional methods of water conservation. Now threatened by disuse and a growing water crisis, one photojournalist is documenting them before they are forgotten.

As with many biodiversity hotspots, new discoveries are being made all the time.

The system will also help reduce the spread of disease in rural villages.

It became too difficult for students and teachers to reconcile eating meat with caring for abandoned animals.

Using traditional techniques and materials, this design adapts the age-old idea of evaporative cooling to create a low-energy, alternative air conditioner.

The indigenous Chenchu people say they know the real way to save India's tigers.

Over the past 15 years, awareness and interest in livestock conditions and wellbeing have increased exponentially, leading to significant improvements. How much further can it go?

Yesterday TreeHugger asked whether the Monobloc was the most famous plastic chair in the world. Now, sadly, the death has been announced of the creator of another very famous plastic chair.

Photo credit: William Hook via Flickr/Creative Commons

For thousands of years, people have wondered how these monuments in Egypt were made.

Our always-on devices turn out to consume a lot of power. Do I really need to connect my garage door to the Internet?

If all Americans adopted this (almost) waterless method of cooking pasta, we'd save billions of gallons of water.

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In today's weekly newsletter, we go on about why cold showers are good for you (not the reasons you think); show off some very fancy LED lights in a very old fixture design and whine about the designs of tiny houses.

A Guardian article inspires a silly roundup

New research identifies the emotions that motivate some people to make ethical choices day after day.

This new Canadian startup offers fabulous winter parkas and bombers that are entirely ethical and vegan.

Just because garment workers are desperate doesn't mean we should exploit them.

Your favorite clothing item just got even better. These new leggings from Girlfriend Collective tick all the boxes when it comes to eco-friendly and ethical production.

What with social networking sites like Facebook all the rage right now and more attention than ever being focused on the issues of global warming and climate change, the moment certainly seems propitious for the unveiling of MakeMeSustainable, a

Cooling servers requires a lot of energy, so why not locate them somewhere that is always cold?

Help amplify the message of the global water crisis by lending your social media updates to World Water Day 2012

You can now view the energy and water efficiency performance of the company's North Carolina and Oregon data centers in real-time.

The company would use the Solara solar-powered drone, which can remain in flight for five years at a time!

Waste water and waste heat recovery together at last, perhaps the most interesting new thing at Greenbuild.

A decade ago, the Taliban's destruction of two 1,500-year-old Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley drew worldwide attention to Afghanistan's rich archaeological

"I believe that the earth is calling to us and that we are here to serve the planet as a whole by our ability to appreciate, to give gratitude and praise, to become ecstatic with wonder for the earth."

Religious communities across the country will gather to reflect on the moral implications of climate change and our imperative to act. One man, in particular, should pay heed.

As a keystone species, the importance of the sea otter on the health of coastal ecosystems can't be understated. A new study shows that they may even play a key role in helping coastlines cope with agricultural run-off.

Well, giant shrimp the size of your forearm are now a thing we can worry about.

Thought experiments worked for Einstein. Can they help protect the environment too?

Nature's acoustic environments are wild, haunting and beautiful. As this online educational project shows, these wild soundscapes are in danger of disappearing too.

Here is one woman's version of simple living on the river, in a boat that is equipped to see the tough northern winters through.

I predicted trouble in winter, but they appear to still open even when buried in snow.

In a Canadian province where a winter heating with electricity might cost a few hundred dollars per month minimum, this man manages to cut his heating bill by using free solar energy.

This micro-home is a customized, winter-proofed dwelling for two.

The Burger Lounge, which opened in 2006, now has 3 locations across San Diego offering organic and healthy burger alternatives for one of the healthiest, if not greenest, of cities. Created by Dean Loring and Mike Gilligan,

Solar grid parity will vary from city to city. A new interactive map helps show how it will spread.

Wired News chats with environmental economist Paul Hawken about his latest book, how PBS is turning another into a 17-part TV series, and how he is organizing the environmental movement through a collection of wikis. We've excerpted some choice

A new study on chicken embryos may help researchers understand how humans developed their sensitive daylight vision.

Pinpointing the sources of myths that threaten the health of children could help get the truth out to where it is needed