Want to know if you can go solar? Now there's a good chance you can easily find out.

Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.

A Canadian scientist wants us to rethink our approach to plastic and challenge the colonial system that produces it.

A new study shows that in fact, if you build them, people use them and drive less.

Well, that happened fast.

Big Auto is increasingly coming up against Big Tech.

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

Let's hope they play nicely with government-funded cargo bikes.

Price is no longer the main obstacle. Lack of understanding might be.

British scientists do the math and find that we come up short for cobalt, lithium and copper.

Weed killer, it's what's for breakfast! Glyphosate found in 43 of 45 conventional oat products tested by EWG.

The first Freakonomics book was a lot of fun; the second less so, as it sort of devolved into "if the scientific consensus and/or coast-hugging liberal elite are for it, we are against it" type of thing. Hence Freakonomics Watch; or perhaps it should

Attend your own green film fest at home with filmmakers' live Q&A

While you may not have heard of the Good Food Awards, there is a good chance you've enjoyed food from some of their winners. The not-for-profit organization celebrates not only the kind of food we should be eating but the kind we want to eat.

Tweaking your computer's energy saving settings is a no-brainer. But that's just the trouble: the computer is making a "dumb" decision to dim the monitor or go to sleep after a preset time. VeryPC, the British maker of energy-efficient

Photo via dailyinvention via Flickr CC Energy Star has announced that the new 4.0 and 5.0 specifications for televisions have been set. They'll go into effect May 2010 and 2012 respectively, and the impact will save users anywhere from 40% to 65% in

They are everywhere, the full page ads with smiling people proud of how much money they saved and how they qualified for all those government grants. But what did they really save? Perhaps a bit of energy, but how much?

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought

Walmart has been in the sustainability spotlight over the last few years, both for implementing its own efficiency measures and for raising the bar for industry at large. Some view these initiatives with skepticism because the

If every home in the U.S. switched just one inefficient light for an Energy Star one, that would be equivalent to taking 800,000 vehicles off the road in term of greenhouse gas emissions

LEDs were already cheap when you take into account how much money they save you on your electricity bill, but now this is just a no-brainer.

Drying clothes uses an incredible amount of energy, it's clearly a low-hanging fruit for conservation and energy efficiency efforts.

Look Ma! No heatsink!

The Right to Repair movement is rapidly growing – and it can't come soon enough.

Baltimore residents, get ready to get in on the smart grid party. Baltimore Gas & Electric has just announced that it has filed paper with the Maryland Public Service

Not waiting for national legislation to set a price on carbon and kickstart the journey to a low-carbon future, Montgomery County, Maryland has enacted one the country's first carbon taxes. Passed by a vote of 8-to-1 the tax

Not sure if you really want to live in a tiny house? This tiny home builder is making these cabins from salvaged materials, which visitors can test out at an eco-retreat in Maryland.

One of the world's most famous architectural renderings turns into a building. Will it thrive?

"Less is more" is so over; These days the mantra is "too much is never enough."

And I am going to be positive, upbeat and happy about it, really.

Irish architects Heneghan Peng win the competition to house world's largest canoe collection

It looks a lot better than the usual kind, cleans the air and absorbs noise.

A vintage Airstream trailer gets a fresh and airy makeover with some eye-catching patterns.

This family with four kids is traveling full-time in a beautifully redone vintage Airstream trailer.

This former pigeon roost is transformed into a light-filled family home.

Turns out, environmental issues are not about awareness. People get it.

And we thought it was all about symbolism...

Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.

This company proves that plastic waste can be a valuable resource.

Bluefin tuna is on the verge of total collapse. Maybe. It depends on who you ask. We may have been talking about

When the press coverage is completely off the mark. There's an article in the Pittsburgh-based Post-Gazette about an attempt to organise a green prom at the City Charter High School. At first glance it appears that all the students took the bus to the

Technological advancements, combined with an escalating climate crisis, suggest its time to revisit some once fanciful ideas.

You can't help but notice the street kids in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Some of them, darting through the heavy traffic of tuk-tuks and motos on their hunt for crisp dollar bills, are so young they have yet to learn to talk. Other than scooping them off

Just a quick one on ethanol and Southeast Asia: Chinaview.cn is reporting that Cambodia has opened the nation’s first ethanol production facility. Using cassava as a feedstock, at least initially all of the

Nomi Network helps to provide training and jobs to women in India and Cambodia.

It's time to talk about ... wait for it ... the problem with hangers.

Quebec architects propose a 48-storey tower in a forest, "a new relationship between humans and their natural habitat."

The KISS principle applies to everything, including building design.

George Monbiot says you don't set targets in an emergency, you act.

"No justification can be possible for this nonsense."