The Glowing, Glowing, Gone is a brightly somber campaign calling for urgent action against climate change.

There was a time when family heirlooms were cherished, but now minimalism is valued more.

Young people's interest in 'healthy, clean living' has them cooking, crafting, and counting their pennies in ways that baffle their Boomer parents.

Here is a clever new design that unfurls with a flourish and retracts with a simple pull of a string.

The static, traditional lecture classroom is slowly on its way out. Here's how the flexible classroom of the future might be furnished.

This intriguing design brings in more healthy rocking and rolling movement as you sit, work and socialize.

A new entry to the eco-friendly furnishings market offers a collection of furniture and home accessories that comes with a bold set of standards.

Chairs take up a lot of space, but not in this line of space-saving furniture.

We’ve reported on Transition City Bristol before, one of the first city-wide Transition Town initiatives [Disclaimer: This author has good friends involved in the project, but we’d be writing about it even if we didn’t]. It looks like things are

You may have heard that the iPhone 3G went on sale this morning. I saw a line outside of the AT&T; stores here in Manhattan, and I heard there was a line around the block this morning at the Union Street Apple store in San

The Dirty Dozen is back. No, we're not talking about the movie—it's the recently released, fifth edition of The Environmental Working Group's (EWG) list of the 12 conventionally grown fruits and veggies with the

Yet another reason why we need a more resilient food system.

Created by BIG and WeWork, this open-plan school in NYC offers another model for education.

This modular curtain could help existing buildings photosynthesize oxygen and get rid of pollution in cities.

It's wonderful to see architects take small interventions for housing for the homeless so seriously.

Something to put all the composting, shorter showers and EV talk in perspective.

Nature gets digitized in these vibrant animations that feature audio recordings from the rainforest.

Woven in collaboration with an indigenous Amazonian people, this enormous sculpture invites visitors to enter a space for ritual and contemplation.

The people of Newtok, Alaska are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away.

Adapting to climate change is going to affect the lives of every human on Earth. But for some those impacts are hitting a little sooner and a little harder than they are for others.

So often we read books on ecology that detail the downfall of a species or habitat. Finally, here is a book that does the opposite, explaining instead the incredible comeback of one of the most important locales for marine

That's what Kris de Decker did with Low-Tech magazine and it makes a lot of sense.

It's the practical sequel to 'The Reducetarian Solution,' striving to get more people eating fewer animal products.

Tanja Hester, who retired at 38, can help you create a financial roadmap that makes your life your own.

'Knit Your Dog' is an Illinois-based business that will take your dog's excess hair and transform it into cozy clothes and accessories.

And now the three unlikely friends live together under a single roof.

If American's cats and dogs were their own country, they'd rank 5th in global meat consumption, says new study.

The stubborn hero refused to leave his goats ... miraculously, they all survived the firestorm.

A feline clinic in Dublin has published a full-time job listing for cat cuddlers.

After spending most of her life in search and rescue, this grand 13-year-old Australian Shepherd is enjoying her golden years with her companion human.

The heroic lab saved 12 lives and recovered 41 bodies during her career as a search and rescue dog.

Schools are closing classrooms and going online all over the world. This may be as much of an opportunity as it is a crisis.

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Taking pieces of "dead" nature, this artist transmutes them into delightful, living works of glass and gold leaf.

Anthropologist David Graeber thinks we could do without half our jobs.

The sci-fi show pulls no punches when it comes to humanity's complicated relationship with work and nature.

We live in his world of conspicuous waste.

They call it a "one-off" but it is the shape of things to come.

Located in the heart of Florence, Italy, this small apartment features a minimalist stair, sleeping loft, and a view out onto the city's Renaissance treasures.

How do you make good design accessible to people with small spaces and small budgets?

How to choose things for your home that have had, or can have, second lives.

The wonderful world of birds, painted in life size and all together on a huge 2,500-square-foot wall.

This little boy looks like he might be blogging over spilled milk, in fact he's concerned about the future of his environment. The Global Warming Rug by Mexican design cooperative NEL, featuring Emiliano Godoy, has created quite a

Here is an interesting idea for a rug made of pieces of felt. We stumbled upon Julika Welge's Growing Carpet at this year's Designersblock at the London Design Festival, where the bright colours and the rich texture first

This week The Man with A Spear in His Chest, founder of Interface Ray Anderson, held a press conference to mark a milestone in his company's journey up "Mount Sustainability". They are making excellent progress towards their target of zero

These textile works of art are bursting with soft corals, algae and more.

He must have seen my TreeHugger media badge, because the salesman from Element Square called out and said "No trees were harmed in the production of these chairs!" I replied that a lot of fossil fuels were burned and a lot of CO2 released, and he said

An airbag on the hood of the car to protect pedestrians? We also have a video of Paris flooded by rising seas, a sliding library creates an extra room, and more.

The aquatic moss clears 80 percent of arsenic from a container of water in less than an hour.

This ubiquitous liquid, water, continues to amaze us with its just plain weirdness