There are many special things about the home of Gennaro Brooks-Church, the director of the green building firm Eco Brooklyn.

Get a taste of tiny house building, thanks to Jake and Kiva, who are documenting their tiny house building process, step by step.

Elora Hardy and her team of designers, artisans, and builders at Ibuku are reimagining sustainable building, using one of nature's strongest and most versatile materials.

Modern building codes and zoning regulations, while helping to set safety standards that can save lives, can also serve as big barriers to building small, sensible, and affordable dwellings with alternative materials and techniques.

This tiny house project is developing a multidisciplinary curriculum and tutorial series for schools and for individuals, as well as giving away a "Dream Tiny House."

Are you looking for a DIY construction technique for building an affordable earthquake-, flood-, and bullet-resistant home? Look no further.

If you like craftsmanship, woodworking, and traditional hand tools, or you just enjoy watching somebody else do all the work, you'll love this short film.

Thyssenkrupp's TWIN elevators have a very unique feature that could save buildings energy and space.

When you want to really pursue your dreams, instead of simply dreaming them, you might need to think outside the box. Outside the housing box, that is.

Hold on to your wallets, because this little dwelling isn't for sale yet, but it is a promising development in the tiny house movement.

Thanks to careful scrounging and salvaging, a Danish design student was able to cheaply build a "self-sufficient" dome for use as a greenhouse.

You've seen the photos of homes made from old bottles, but did you ever think you could make your own? You can, and here's how.

It is the perfect local renewable material, and a great insulator too.

It's all natural, renewable, healthy and has zero embodied carbon. What's not to love?

It didn't win the Stirling Prize, but cleans up on all the sustainability awards.

A rustic tiny house built with plenty of love and on a small budget.

Perfect for small city apartments, this system allows you to use a variety of add-on components to build your own indoor garden.

It could move goods, transport hydrogen, reduce CO2 and water the lawn all at once.

A building that once housed a Jewish girls' school, shut down by the Nazis, is now home to a fashionable restaurant.

Shipping Containers are used as giant blocks to build a giant steel party room

And they figure out where to put it, because "future architecture means city-hacking."

In this open source design project, Dos Uno shares cool, easy to make designs for chairs, tables and shelves using cheap readily available materials.

The city's new mayor has announced an ambitious project to build a park aimed at providing new public spaces and controlling sprawl.

This vertical garden on a residential high-rise in Bogotá reuses greywater from its residents and helps to clean the air.

Boring old bee hives get exciting with these curly shaped structures, built by bees that don't sting.

ZGF builds interesting hives on the roof of a fascinating building.

What's the best approach for dealing with this?

Graham Phakos did, with an interesting design that does everything the expensive Italian jobs do.

If you're interested in learning how to build your own renewable energy devices, this DIY vertical axis wind turbine is a great place to start.

The powerful 12-MW turbine is being developed and tested now.

A young Toronto-based woman is working to build a school in the Kenyan village near where she grew up.

Andrew Michler figures it out in his own home in Colorado.

This kind of trailer means you can eliminate the head-banging sleeping loft.

A tour inside a solar-powered bus conversion that makes you feel at ease.

This tiny house builder and architect just built himself and his wife a bigger (but still tiny) home, equipped with a space-saving elevator bed.

Who says loos have to be boring and utilitarian?

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.

The 'Spatzenfavela' ('favela' for sparrows) provides a home for birds that have lost their city nests and roosts due to urban renewal.

When a bird charity installs a wind turbine, they're going to do it right.

Brazil's economy is growing fast, and it is expected to need an increase of 50% in power generation capacity over the next decade.

Why Greens Should Support the Fight for Economic and Racial Justice

Rob Cotter used to build expensive sports cars. Now he makes vehicles that are much, much cooler.

We also have to start retiring what we already have and replacing it with cleaner power plants, furnaces and vehicles. Now.

It's more than just a bike; it is a different way of thinking about design and manufacturing.

It's actually rather elegant and understated for the Danish superstar.

These premade apartment units are lifted on top of the city's old buildings, making use and maximizing space on Barcelona's "forgotten rooftops."

"Be like a squirrel" and other advice for unexpectedly difficult times.

Two undergrads hatched an innovative plan to build this super eco-friendly cabin in the woods of Finland; Mother Nature approves..

Beautifully crafted interior is a classic where sailors will feel right at home.

Juniper is an invasive species that's tough to work with.